Kohōpeh’s The Kabuki Book takes place in Japan after the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, as Tokugawa power begins settling over Kyō. Okuni no Izumo is an exiled shrine maiden traveling to the capital after brigands steal her ox cart. When a servant abandons her on...

Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...

C.F. Yetmen’s The Pretense of Memory follows Oskar Gruenewald, a law student in 1958 Wiesbaden whose life begins to tilt after Professor Brehmer accuses him of plagiarism. Oskar survived the war as a child and was raised afterward by Anna and Henry Cooper, yet his...

The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

David Ekardt’s Taggert of the Marines follows Sean Taggert, a young colonial sailor whose family merchant ship, the Osprey, is attacked after a British naval officer tries to seize one of its crewmen. With rebellion spreading through the colonies and his family drawn into the...

Maxime Trencavel’s The Matriarch Mission follows Oksana Mangupli, a Krymchak Jewish young woman in 1913 Crimea whose failed arranged marriage sends her out of her father’s house and into the guarded Romanov world above Yalta. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich discovers her reading about Agarttha, an...

Eric Picard’s novel, The Hazard Trade, is riveting historical fiction, a thrilling story of rebellion and espionage, set during the American Revolution. The characters include both fictional characters as well as real historical figures. In 1778, Newport, a port city on Aquidneck Island, is struggling...

In the fifth book in C.J. Adrien’s Saga of Hasting the Avenger, The Empress and Her Wolf, the Viking anti-hero Hasting and his hardened, oath-bound crew sail deep into the treacherous heart of the Byzantine Empire in the ninth century. Empress Theodora hires Hasting to...

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba’s The Executioner’s Stepdaughter is set in 1960s London, where Nii Narh Okine is a Ghanaian medical researcher living far from Accra, bound by his mother Ameley’s warning that England must give him a doctorate, not a white wife. His father, Obo Okine, was...

Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers traces the interwoven paths of the Heber family and the Mì’kmaq during the French and Indian War. The story centers on the son, Christian, whose kidnapping becomes the doorway into a new family and a new identity. In his adopted...