Can a single letter change everything? That’s the question at the heart of All That Remains by Samantha Grosser. Eva and Ben have been married for decades, but they receive news that forces them to revisit a painful part of his past. The story alternates...

Raymond Hackney’s A Plea for Freedom follows Daniel Asbury, a fifteen-year-old farm boy in Bedford County, Virginia, as the Revolution reaches his family in 1777. After Judge Charles Lynch punishes two captured Tories beneath the walnut tree in New London, Daniel’s desire for liberty becomes...

One unexpected moment can change everything. In All That I'm Asking by Ellen Halter, those hits just keep coming for one young woman. The novel takes place in New York City during the late 1960s and opens as Alice Kaplan escapes an attempted sexual assault...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

On December 6, 1932, in Los Angeles, world traveler Aloha Wanderwell’s famous husband, Walter “Cap” Wanderwell, is murdered aboard their schooner Carma in Laurel Corona’s Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel. Aloha and her devoted sister, Miki, grieve with the children. But they have to deal...

Catherine Meyrick’s And the Women Watch and Wait is a historical novel set in Australia during World War I. Kate Burke moves to Melbourne to help her Aunty Mary run the family shop while her cousins serve overseas. Before long, Kate’s sweetheart, Jack Sheehan, leaves...

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

In Stan Haynes’s And Slavery No More, as the Civil War pushes toward its third year, Montgomery Tolliver serves inside President Abraham Lincoln’s administration while helping manage Union weapons production at a critical juncture. Lincoln privately debates whether presidential war powers can legally free enslaved...

Janell Strube’s Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is set in eighteenth-century Paris. Adélaïde Labille dreams of becoming a professional painter despite laws and artistic institutions that reserve this arena for men. Encouraged by her father while facing relentless pressure from her mother to secure a...

A Light Within by Ann Nolder Heinz begins in 1850s California, with Cora Fielding, a young woman determined to study medicine. Her father is a doctor, and her twin brother, Carl, is set to follow in his footsteps despite not wanting to. Although Cora is...