The Freeze Holds Fast by Andrew Ferns is a fast-moving, exciting adventure set in the wilds of the Yukon, Canada, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Dawson City was a frozen, wild frontier in 1898, at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Tens...

Lucy Mercer, a farm girl from Sweetwater, Tennessee, is the protagonist in The Lie Collector by Ann Howard Creel. After her fiancé is hired to work at Oak Ridge, he goes missing after a short time. Lucy becomes a sleuth searching for answers to the...

The Spy’s Song, book three of Giovanna Siniscalchi's The Swans of Paris series, is set in 1815, when London ballerina Louise Bonnechoix conceals that she is Napoleon Bonaparte’s daughter. As Napoleon returns to power in France, British intelligence discovers her identity. Rodrick de Montfort, a...

In Tides, Lies, and Alibis by Taffy Beach, take a trip back to the '90s and visit a small town in Florida. Kate MacGregor is an artist, and while her name gives her a reputation as the last heir of a Florida dynasty, it certainly...

The Secret-Keeper’s Shipwreck: Mayhem in Gold Rush San Francisco by Jess Wells is a delightful historical novel set in the Wild West early days of San Francisco. Before gold was discovered, San Francisco was nothing more than a tiny, poor village by the bay without...

Katrin Costa’s The Girl in the Purple Jacket is an inspired true historical story set in East Germany in 1989, where twenty-year-old Karlina lives under a government that decides where its citizens may travel and how openly they may speak. Karlina has spent years imagining...

Sometimes you have to break a few rules to figure out where you belong. In The Trolley to Renwick Park by Susan Gere Carter, seventeen-year-old Lucy Harmon lives in Ithaca, New York, in 1915, when young women are expected to marry and settle into traditional...

Tim Schooley’s novel, The Wool Translator, is an interwoven coming-of-age story of two young savants and their forbidden romance, set in the chaos of war in Europe and England of the 1480s. The story includes fictional characters as well as reimagined historical figures with fictional...

In William Amos’s The Seed of Joy, American Peace Corps volunteer Paul Harkin arrives in South Korea in 1979, where he falls in love with Han Mi Jin, an English teacher involved in the democracy movement. Their relationship comes under pressure when Mi Jin’s parents...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...