Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

A. M. Linden’s novel, The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three, is a mix of intriguing historical fiction and fantasy, set in early medieval Britain in the eighth century. The story is set in two neighboring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Atheldom and Derthwald. The central character is...

A. M. Linden’s The Valley is a spellbinding and imaginative work of historical fiction set in early medieval Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Valley begins in the 8th century, when Herrwn, a Druid priest, teacher, and bard, is an old man in his eighties. Herrwn recalls his...

Magnus Baikie’s The First Law is Survival (We Have a Few More) follows Marcus d’Ostia, a former orphan who now leads the XIX Legion in an empire modeled on ancient Rome. After imperial armies conquer Wyddfce, Emperor Tertius orders Marcus to marry Isolde, the Celtic...

Warwick Gleeson's Torment Becomes Them delivers a spellbinding meld of fantasy and historical fiction. The story opens in the Bukhtarma River Valley as the greatest Kazakh magician, Zolo Bold, watches his democratic revolution crushed by black warlock Arislan Gur’s conjured rain of giants. His struggles...

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...