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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Maiden
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In 1679, Lady Christian Nimmo stabbed her lover, Lord James Forrester, to death and was sentenced to ‘kiss the Maiden’, the guillotine which rose ...Read Review
Acts of Resistance
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In Bulgaria in 1943, the Nazis are making deals with a collaborationist regime to deport the country’s Jewish population to death camps. Three ...Read Review
The Lady in the Moneylender’s Parlour (Allen Abbey Romances Book 2)
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After losing a hand at Waterloo and selling out from the cavalry, Captain William Allen’s life spirals downward, but in the moneylender’...Read Review
The Rose and the Thistle
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The lead-up to the 1715 Jacobite Rising is the backdrop to Frantz’s latest Scottish romance. We fall easily into her 18th-century world, set ...Read Review
The Metropolitan Affair (On Central Park)
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Inspirational RomanceMystery/Crime
Thirty-two-year-old Lauren Westlake has advanced far in a man’s world. She has risen to expert curator of Egyptian antiquities at NYC’s ...Read Review
The Low Road
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Norfolk, 1813: Hannah, a small child, witnesses her mother’s burial, staked through the heart as a suicide, following arrest for the apparent infanticide ...Read Review
Life and Other Love Songs
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When Oz Armstead disappears on his 37th birthday, in the early 1980s, family secrets come to light that impact his close family members. ...Read Review
Tangled Spirits
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During her study abroad, college student Mina is meditating in a remote area of the Tsukuba mountains when her spirit is pulled back ...Read Review
House of Hunger
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This follow-up to The Year of the Witching sees the author continue to explore dark historical fantasy worlds and women’s place within ...Read Review
Pursuing a Masterpiece
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Zara Rossi, a graduate student in paleography at La Sapienza Università di Roma, is researching her doctoral thesis on Pope Clement VII’s ...Read Review
