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...

In Dr. Paul L. Sasser’s The Oagenn, Nathanael Livanos has lived for centuries by hiding what he is: an Oajinn who does not age like ordinary people, but his hidden life ends when his brother El-Jy’een begins hunting the ancient rings that can alter the...

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,...