The Chiaravalle Family by Natalia Settembrini Casillas centers around the Chiaravalle and the Cavalieri families. Even though the Cavalieri family was very wealthy, and the family of Chiaravalle was not, they each faced the same love and loneliness, secrets and tragedies that life throws at...

With a Yorkist husband and a Lancastrian family, Lady Elysabeth St. John is caught between two sides of the war for the crown. In 1470 Lady Elysabeth becomes godmother to Edward V and she is thrown into the middle of political turmoil. Centered around historical...

The Girl Who Counted Numbers: A Novel by Roslyn Bernstein is a well-written and well-researched historical work that chronicles a young woman’s quest to solve a family mystery. Seventeen-year-old Susan Reich graduated from high school early and wants to take a break by going out...

The Roots of the Bayou by Chad J. LeBlanc is the story of Honore, a successful man living in Pisiguit, who is forced to leave his homeland after British soldiers claim his properties. The people of Pisiguit were loyal to the French government, and the...

The Reluctant Baronet: A Regency Romance by Elizabeth W. Watkins has all of the elements needed to pull readers into this historical novel. Russell and Selina are very much in love, but whether will they ever find a way to be together is the main...

Forbidden love features prominently in Paolo G. Grossi's The Tiergarten Tales. Take a journey along the streets of Berlin when it was the heart of the great Prussian empire and feel the pulse of the men who longed for companionship of a similar kind but...

The Beijing Blunder by Jay Perin is the fourth book in the One Hundred Years of War series. The Cold War is coming to an end and the 90s are just around the corner. But freedom must still be paid for in blood. Temple’s time...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia by David J. Mason tells the story of the author’s great-grandfather, Parson Sykes, and his journey to freedom during the Civil War. The author does a remarkable job of setting up the details of the...

We read about Hastings’ pursuit of retaliation and reputation-building in The Kings of the Sea: The Saga of Hasting the Avenger by C.J. Adrien. Hastings learns the hard way that reputation, at whatever price, is everything. Because of his cunning and luck, Hastings gains a...

The Damned of Magdeburg by H. Allenger is a historical fiction novel that chronicles the lead-up to the 17th-century Sack of Magdeburg, one of the most notorious massacres in world history. Allenger explores the human elements of a period that we don't really know much...