In Broken: A Lester Caine Mystery by Fred Berri, investigators Lester Caine, Gloria Saville, and Ronald Walker tackle a horrific case that irreversibly shakes a small Florida town. The year is 1949, and the discovery of fourteen-year-old Rosie Salvo discarded in a Lantana dump lot...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...

Nathaniel Theos’s Bloodline of the Grail is set in 1307, and King Philip IV of France has ordered the arrest of the Knights Templar, a Christian military order. Templar knight Sir Matthieu de Montrose has been entrusted by the Order’s leader, Jacques de Molay, with...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

In Tides, Lies, and Alibis by Taffy Beach, take a trip back to the '90s and visit a small town in Florida. Kate MacGregor is an artist, and while her name gives her a reputation as the last heir of a Florida dynasty, it certainly...

Katrin Costa’s The Girl in the Purple Jacket is an inspired true historical story set in East Germany in 1989, where twenty-year-old Karlina lives under a government that decides where its citizens may travel and how openly they may speak. Karlina has spent years imagining...

David Z. Pyke’s All Hot and Bleeding is set in the Republic of Texas in 1840, where sixteen-year-old Silas Grant returns to his family’s Brazos Valley homestead after an expedition into Mexico leaves him wounded and haunted by the men he killed. Silas hopes to...

William Ian Grubman’s Paris After the Storm is set in Paris in 1947, where Émile Rothstein serves as Director of Restorations at the Louvre as thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis await return to their owners. When a Renoir Émile repairs disappears from the...

Sometimes you have to break a few rules to figure out where you belong. In The Trolley to Renwick Park by Susan Gere Carter, seventeen-year-old Lucy Harmon lives in Ithaca, New York, in 1915, when young women are expected to marry and settle into traditional...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...