For readers who are into Westerns, G.P. Hutchinson’s Strong Convictions will come along as a great and entertaining treat, a compelling opening to the Emmett Strong Westerns series, featuring well-imagined characters and an equally great plot. Set against the backdrop of an emerging Texas in...

World on Fire: Spoils of Olympus, Volume 2 by Christian Kachel is the story of a young soldier as he grows up in the military and understands that life in Macedon. The year is 318 BC, five years after the death of Alexander the Great....

Sherlock Holmes, His Wife and the Hunt for Jack the Ripper is a suspenseful historical mystery by India Millar. She has written a different version to the popular Sherlock Holmes' mysteries by including a wife, Eleanor “Nellie,” and a daughter, Nona. Jack the Ripper has...

Eve Louise Riser comes from a family of musicians; she is a gifted pianist who plays with Jimmy Blakeley and His Stoptime Syncopaters. She wrote and published a few songs under the pen name E.R. King. On the other side of her life, it seems...

GP Hutchinson’s Strong Suspicions is the second and latest installment in his Emmett Strong Western Series. It traces the ongoing adventures of Texas Ranger Emmett Strong, his sidekicks, and his new Oriental bride upon their return to Texas after a bloody confrontation in Nevada. The...

Storykeeper by Daniel Smith is a beautifully woven tale of stories nested inside stories. It is a tale of times long past and peoples long gone. Long before writing, stories were kept by shamans, Druids, lorekeepers, bards. They encoded history, myth, legend, and kept a...

Millie Thom wrote a historical fiction story around the Vikings in Shadow of the Raven (Sons of Kings Book 1). Thom starts the story in the mid ninth century and explains how two kingdoms share a border near the mouth of the Thames. The two...

Soul of Toledo by Edward Webster is set in Toledo almost 30 years before the Spanish Inquisition. The story recounts little known facts about the time when Toledo was almost destroyed by a madman and his minions. The plot centers around Viçente Pérez, a converted...

The tumultuous 1906 earthquake makes up the backdrop for the historical fiction novel San Francisco by Marian Lindner. Anna O’Malley was born into a life of privilege, her father a renowned jeweller. However, she finds the middle upper class lifestyle stifling, and her mother’s insistence...

Secrets of Sand Mountain is a coming of age novel written by Philip Elrod. Campbell Crossing is a tiny town nestled in the Appalachian Mountain Range on Sand Mountain in Alabama. Mostly it’s a farming community, and in 1944, at the time this story begins,...