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...

Anthony S Roccato’s Among the Crows is gripping, character-driven historical fiction set in Stalingrad in 1942 during WWII. Anya, Ivan, and Yuri are close friends, living in Stalingrad, struggling to survive. On 23 August 1942, the Germans launch a devastating, massive air attack on Stalingrad....

In Christine Emma Carey’s historical novel, Action Not Words: A Journey from Chaos to Calm, decorated young officer John Bland returns from war with the sole intention of building a meaningful life. In Yorkshire, he struggles to start afresh with his motherless child, while haunted...

Edmond Thornfield’s Atalanta of the Wild follows Atalanta, an Arkadian huntress raised in the mountain wilds, after the father who abandoned her returns seeking forgiveness. Lord Iásios invites her into the royal house of Tegea, where she meets siblings she once believed she would never...

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...