Red Clay, Yellow Grass: A Novel of the 1960s by Richard Barager is a fascinating story that combines romance with war to transport readers to an interesting setting in the sixties. Meet two people, orphan David Noble and Jackie Lundquist, college sweethearts whose relationship takes...

From the outset, Ruby Dorn has only the problems any other fifteen-year-old girl living in a small Minnesota town in the year 1875 might face: her mother recently died in childbirth, her father has been arrested for burning the crops on their farm that had...

When sixteen-year-old Audry's father dies, he leaves her in a difficult situation, as she comes under the protection of her elder sister, Alis, and her husband, John. In Roanoke, by Kathryn Sommerlot, John and Alis have determined to make a new beginning and in 1587...

Ruby and Sal by Jane O'Brien is the first book in The Unforgettables series, gripping and utterly fascinating. Encouraged by her friend, Ivy starts writing the story of her great-grandmother, Ruby, a woman who lived to be 102 years old. Now, the author is transported...

Raiding the Empire of the Sun: Tinian 1945 by Kit Crumpton is a compelling historical story that takes readers on a rollicking ride through the events of WWII, a setting that comes across in the novel with vivid clarity. Based on the true experiences of...

You might be tempted, as I was, to toss Rooks of the Raven by Franklin Neal aside after the first couple of chapters because of what appears to be some incoherence in descriptions, and dialogue that’s occasionally difficult to follow. But persevere. While I’m not...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Reign of the Marionettes, the first published novel by author Sheena Macleod. This book hooked me from the very first pages and kept me up all night, obsessively reading until the very end!...

Raid On Cochecho: Book Three of The Puritan Chronicles by Peni Jo Renner is a historical fiction novel based on true events that happened during the early colonial history of New Hampshire in New England. The story is based on the infamous siege of Cochecho,...

Murray Lee Eiland Jr’s Return to Babylon is book five in the continuing saga of Orfeo. As Orfeo gazes out to the sea, he ponders his life’s adventures. Even though times are peaceful for him and Clarice at the palace in Pylos, he is restless....

Anele Dingane is the stubborn and rebellious nine-year-old sister of fifteen-year-old twins, Thaka and Zhana. Their father, Naboto Dingane, was the Zulu chief of the village. He had always warned them that “Until you marry, you will obey me in every way, or I'll take...