The Last Heretic by Steve Goldsmith follows Archelaus, a clever and skeptical scribe navigating the dangerous dynamics of early Christianity during the Council of Nicaea. Set in 325 AD, the story moves between political salons, bishops’ chambers, and dimly lit writing rooms, bringing the early...

In The Lady in the Veil by Allie Cresswell, upon her mother's marriage, Georgina Willow is sent from her isolated existence in the rugged moors of Yorkshire into mid-1830’s London society. Unlike most young women who might be thrilled to spend a season amongst the...

Pirates and smugglers threaten a summer gathering in the exciting romance novel, Windvale (Regency Love Stories: Book 5) by Karen Thornell. Sir Henry is a spy like his father, and when a mission goes wrong, he quits the world of espionage. Now he is floundering...

V for Victory by John McKay is a most interesting story set during the occupation of Paris by the Germans from June 1940 to July 1944. Events are seen through the eyes of a young Parisian boy, Charles Mercier, who is 13 years old and...

Mask of Romulus by Mark Jamilkowski tells the story of the first emperor, Caesar Augustus, and the seer, Kamala. When Atia remarries, Augustus is sent to live with his grandmother, Julia, who introduces him to her brother, Julius Caesar. Augustus and Julius form a deep...

The Chinese thinker Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and that sentiment is echoed in Kaci Curtis's Along the Trail. Winnifred “Winnie” Hayes and her family take that first step as they leave their home and...

Ellen Rachlin’s Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands is set in Mesopotamia during the late third millennium BCE, where Enheduanna, born Ana, is sent by her brother King Rimush to take power as the high priestess in Ur, a city shaped by unrest and resistance to...

In Winter’s Season, R.J. Koreto takes us to early nineteenth-century London. Two years after the legendary Battle of Waterloo, Captain Edmund Winter has ditched the battlefield for his new assignment: special emissary from the Home Office. In practice, he’s a high constable of sorts, doing...

The Daredevil by Regan Walker is about a merchant captain named Samuel Tucker, who decided to leave London after hearing that war had erupted between Great Britain and the American colonies. Tucker made a bold move by choosing to sail back across the Atlantic so...

Lenna Adler's hope drew her to Verona, Kansas, in Home on the Range by Taryn Oakley. It’s 1891, and she is trying to escape a dangerous situation in Chicago when she boards a westbound train. With only a newspaper advertisement and a promise to her...