Ernesto H Lee's Lines Drawn in the Marsh is set in 18th-century Lincolnshire, where Lady Eleanor Ainsworth dons a mask as a highway rider after Julian Ashford, heir to Ashford Manor, advances a plan to drain the southern marsh used by local families for grazing....

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli,...

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...

Marianne Rabalais Suler opens a window into a period of little-known history with her debut novel, Like Snow Before Sun. Set in the mid-1700’s Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia), the story follows the harrowing journey of Jeanne LeJeune, a woman of both French-Acadian and Mi’kmaq descent,...

Lonely World by Megan Hale begins in nineteenth-century London. A school outing ends in disaster when a carriage is deliberately wrecked, leaving a young girl named Cristal blind and quietly reclassified by the Crown. Removed from her family, she is absorbed into a state system...

Lady of Lincoln by Rachel Elwiss Joyce is a compelling historical novel set in 12th-century England that highlights the exploits of one brave woman at a time when women were just chattels to be bargained off in advantageous marriages. Nicola is the daughter of the...

For Lucas "Luke" Millikan Burnett, life as a freshman at Stone Canyon Prep, an all-boys school in Southern California, was anything but smooth. Apart from dealing with Lance ‘D-Rex’ Drexx, the class bully, he grapples with academic pressure and the loss of his mother. However,...

In Lost and Broken Things by Linda Sandifer, readers are drawn into the lives of Lily and Davy Statton, siblings living through the ups and downs of life on the eve of the Great Depression in Idaho’s rugged backcountry. It begins in the summer, where...