Mayhem in the Mountains by Jane Loeb Rubin opens with eighteen-year-old Ella deciding to leave Brooklyn behind and head to the Catskills with her younger brother, Robbie, in search of relatives. It is set in the 1920s, a time that shapes so much of what...

It is fall 1974. Emily Wells and her partner, Thomas Findlay, an ex-lead member of a popular band, have arrived in Alaska seeking a fresh start. The couple had had enough of the chaotic life they lived in San Francisco, which was full of parties...

In Bob Van Laerhoven’s The Long Farewell, in 1934, Dresden, fifteen-year-old Hermann Becht's family is affected by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. His father, Hans, serves the Nazi movement with growing devotion, while his mother, Marina, a Belarusian refugee who escaped revolutionary Russia, believes Germany...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

Catherine Mathis’s Leonor is set in 14th-century Portugal, where Leonor Teles de Meneses lives far from power under the control of her husband, Lord Pombeiro, after marriage takes away the freedom she once enjoyed in her mother’s household. Everything changes when she enters the court...

Suzanne Parry’s The Communist’s Secret begins in 1941, where former Leningrad radio worker Katya Karavayeva joins a Soviet volunteer labor squad, expecting to dig defensive trenches against the German invasion. After a disastrous attack near the Luga River destroys the group, Katya escapes into occupied...

In Scott Eveloff’s The Golem’s Holocaust, after Jewish teenager Shayna Essenreich survives a mass execution inside a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, an elderly rabbi gives her sacred clay tied to an ancient legend about a protector created for persecuted Jewish communities. Buried beneath...

In Nero's Nile by Rowan O'Neill, the story starts with a brutal bang in 60 AD Britannia. General Titus Statilius Taurus pulls off the daring assassination of Queen Boudicca to end a tribal revolt, hoping he'll finally be able to settle down on his farm....

Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn deliver a mesmerizing time-travel thriller in Forward to Camelot and re-imagine the events surrounding the murder of JFK. Cady Cuyler is a thirty-six-year-old soap opera actress in 2000, who is abruptly fired from her long-running role. She is enlisted by...

How does one woman find purpose after heartbreak? This question is at the heart of The Cold Heart of War by Juliann Dorell. The story begins just before the Civil War, and centers on Beatrice Bradley, a strong-willed, thoughtful woman dealing with personal loss while...