Pamela Ortega

The Rosetta Key

By William Dietrich - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

This sequel to 2005’s Napoleon’s Pyramids finds its engaging, amoral antihero, Ethan Gage, at the tail end of the 18th century, still ...Read Review

Sunrise

By Jacquelyn Cook - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This fictionalization of the life of historical Macon, Georgia, native Anne Johnston presents a faithful depiction of her life before, during, and after ...Read Review

Shrouds of Holly

By Kate Kingsbury - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This latest installment in the popular Pennyfoot Hotel series continues the often bumbling efforts of heroine Cecily Sinclair Baxter to solve the latest ...Read Review

Women of Magdalene

By Rosemary Poole-Carter - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Robert Mallory is a young doctor who saw three years of horrifying medical service in the Civil War. Estranged from his family, he ...Read Review

A Little Blue Jacket

By Lucy Ann White - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

Set in South Africa in the years preceding the First World War and immediately following the formation of South Africa as a nation, ...Read Review

Consequences

By Penelope Lively - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

If you like your multi-generational family sagas breezy and easy to read, and with if not a happy ending, then at least a ...Read Review

The Road from Chapel Hill

By Joanna Catherine Scott - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

The Road from Chapel Hill offers readers a fascinating and blessedly stereotype-free drama about life in divided North Carolina during the Civil War. ...Read Review

The Marriage Spell

By Mary Jo Putney - Published 2006

Genres:

Historical FantasyRomance

  Abigail is a wizard in early 19th-century England, a healer of great talent, but wizards are feared and despised. A chance encounter ...Read Review

The Woodsman’s Daughter

By Gwyn Hyman Rubio - Published 2005

Genres:

LiterarySaga

The flat pinelands of southern Georgia and its nineteenth-century culture of turpentine farming are the setting for Rubio’s dark, gothic look at ...Read Review

Murder on Lenox Hill

By Victoria Thompson - Published 2005

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this installment of the Gaslight mysteries, Sarah Brandt continues working as a midwife, defying the niceties of late 19th century society and ...Read Review