K. Lyn Smith’s Regarding Rebecca is set in the summer of 1821. Architect Merryn Kimbrell is overseeing costly improvements in the Cornish town of Newford ahead of a visit from King George IV when his estranged wife, Rebecca, arrives from France under her maiden name....

Lord Lorenzo Medici, the de facto ruler of Florence, has summoned ship captain Niccolo Corsini to his estate. A mysterious fleet of ships flying a white flag with a black cross is decimating cities on Italy’s coast with Florence in its sights. This fleet doesn’t...

The 1900 Galveston (Texas) Hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States, although it’s much more distant than events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Lucy Davila Hakemack, in her novel, Remembering the Storm, shows the Galveston tragedy through a human-interest...

Records of a Voyage by Katherine Williams is a historical drama that follows Sara Ann Arkwright’s family. In the late 1800s, Sara experiences an extraordinary love after years of torture and pain. She keeps her experience a secret. However, secrets are bound to be exposed....

Before highways and motels, there were wagons and campfires, and for one determined young bride, that meant seeing new land and building a new future. Rodantha’s Road by Joyce Stotts begins in 1856 with 18-year-old Rodantha and her new Welsh husband, William, leaving Virginia for...

In Redemption Trail by Steven D. McKain, Wyatt Stuart Chambers and Robert Sterling Barton meet at a pivotal moment in their lives when their pasts weigh heavily and the future is uncertain. Having served on opposing sides in the American Civil War, both discover a...

Raising Liberty by Joseph W. Hudgens is a historical novel that vividly reimagines the origin story of one of the world’s most iconic monuments: the Statue of Liberty. Blending meticulous research with immersive storytelling, Hudgens creates a deeply human portrait of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the...

Restoring Miss Hastings by Edwina Kiernan is a historical fiction novel set in 1850 England. Young Harriet Hastings has recently lost both her parents and is struggling to survive. But a letter from her closest living relative informs her that he is her new guardian....

Rising Sun Falling Rain by Trish Devine is set in Japan in 1946 soon after the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. Volunteer Mick Mitchell signs up for a year to help the local people after the devastation. Leaving his parents' New Zealand farm, he is keen...

C. R. Hurst's Round the World: A Life of Jeanne Baret is book one of a two-part biographical series inspired by the real historical figure of Jeanne Baret (1740 – 1807), the first woman to complete a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe (1766–1769). Jeanne...