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...

The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya introduces us to the Solokova sisters, Mariya, Sophia, and Darya. Former aristocrats, they have fallen on hard times after the death of their father. Consumption is running high in the city, and their mother is a victim. In a...

It is the summer of 1984. Instead of sending his fourteen-year-old son, William “Will” Timmons Junior, to summer camp like his peers, William Sr., a high-flying executive at Walton B. Woodward’s Sons, a brokerage firm in the heart of Philadelphia, brings him to his workplace....

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

In The Library: Victorian Virtues Book 3 by Edwina Kiernan, Irene uses books to escape the fear she experiences at home. It’s the 1850s in England, and news spreads across the village of Lindenfell that they may soon get their own public library. Irene clings...

In 1876, eighteen-year-old Loren Ardoin left his home in Louisiana, escaping from the lingering aftermath of the Civil War, heading west with only his worn guitar. After days on the railroad and drifting through towns with his music, Loren ends up in Nogales. In this...

In Richard J. Reese's Thutmose, Soldier Pharaoh, born into the royal court of ancient Egypt, Prince Thutmose grows up under the watch of Queen Hatshepsut while receiving military training beside secret lessons in hypnosis, religion, and politics from High Priest Ptahmose. As he prepares for...