Monica E. Spence

Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery

By J. Aaron Sanders - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1843: Walt Whitman, reporter and sometime poet, has failed to keep his friend, Lena Stowe, from hanging. Whitman knows Lena would never murder her ...Read Review

Enraptured: Secrets of the Loch Trilogy

By Candace Camp - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

Candace Camp’s Enraptured, set in 1807, is the final book in the Secrets of the Loch series, and she hooks you with archeology ...Read Review

An American in Scotland

By Karen Ranney - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

1863. American abolitionist Rose O’Sullivan did not expect to fall in love in Scotland. On a desperate mission to save her family, she ...Read Review

Mrs. Bennet Has Her Say

By Jane Juska - Published 2016

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1785. How did Mrs. Bennet, made famous in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, become the “woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain ...Read Review

The Dressmaker’s War

By Mary Chamberlain - Published 2015Published 2016

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1939. At nineteen years old, Ada Vaughan has English working-class roots and a stellar talent in dressmaking. Her dream of owning her own atelier ...Read Review

A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

By Rita Gabis - Published 2015Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

Rita Gabis, an American poet and writer of half-Catholic, half-Jewish descent, writes a memoir which is part mystery, part family history, part confession, ...Read Review

My American Duchess

By Eloisa James - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

It’s 1803, and heiress Merry Pelford is a jilter. Worse yet, she is an adventuresome, garden-loving, impertinent American. This runaway bride has two ...Read Review

The Lure of the Moonflower (The Final Pink Carnation Novel)

By Lauren Willig - Published 2015

Genres:

Adventure

This is the final (sob!) chapter of Pink Carnation stories. In 2005, our series narrator, Eloise, has abandoned her Ph.D. thesis to pen ...Read Review

Sustenance: A St. Germain Novel

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Published 2015

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Saint-Germain is back! Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written another fascinating, well- researched novel, this one set in the McCarthy era. Living in Paris ...Read Review

Never Judge A Lady By Her Cover

By Sarah MacLean - Published 2014

Genres:

Romance

1823. Ruined Lady Georgina, daughter and sister to dukes, has escaped her old life and transformed herself into Anna, a mysterious courtesan, who runs ...Read Review