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...

The Best Part is a historical novel based on Alessandra and Chiara Tumolo's grandparents, Bepi and Gelmina. In remote villages outside of Verona, Italy, with the backdrop of World War 2 horrors, fascism, and poverty, their grandparents' love story came to life. Each chapter features...

Runebound by Alessa M. Norwen is the story of a culture torn between its pagan roots and Catholicism. Milena is a princess of Mecklenburg, where the old pagan gods are banished by the Church, but their beliefs and rituals are still secretly practiced. Milena’s parents...

Beneath the Basilica, the memoirs and confessions of Lucrezia Borgia were discovered in the historical fiction novel, The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia (Deathbed Confessions by the Pope’s Daughter) by Johnny Teague. A devout Christian and archaeologist, Giuseppe is delighted when he is asked to...

Edmond Thornfield’s novel, Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos), is a reimagined, action-packed mythological and historical story, set in ancient Krete (Crete) during the period of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization. When King Minos dies, his son Asterios succeeds him as the ruler...

A House Full of Strangers by Diana Stevan is a collection of two novellas and eleven short stories set in Winnipeg, Manitoba, during the 1940s and 1950s. The book focuses on landladies, their families, and the tenants who pass through their homes, offering a view...

“The truth? It don't fit clean. Life don't work like no sermon or a newspaper headline. It's messy. It bleeds.” Life does these things and more, and messy can be an understatement as The Bible Of Blackwater County, a novel by Jenny Cafaro, clearly illustrates....