Stella Riley skillfully blends history with romance in her novel, The Marigold Chain. She begins with Chloe meeting Alex Deveril and his friends by chance when her young ward was almost trampled by a horse. Chloe questioned within herself the fact that she loved him...

As a teenager in 1789, Mo’destee Vert was in love and happy with her upcoming role in her home village of Senegambia. A brilliant girl, gifted in so many ways, Mo’destee looked forward to her upcoming marriage to Jabari. Then the white men came, destroying...

One of the strongest points of The Starlight Club 9: Una Morte Facile (An Easy Death) by Joe Corso is the plot, which is so skillfully done that the reader can’t help but keep turning the pages and feeling for the characters, guessing what could...

The inveterate reader will often confess: there is only one thing greater than a great author; a great storyteller. And though the two may be one, a great story transcends great writing. Paul B. Skousen is a masterful storyteller. The Search for Rasha, number three...

The Crimson Heirlooms by Hunter Dennis is set in France from 1776–1832, and in the West Indies. The story centres on two characters, Xavier and Jake, born at different times but loosely connected through their heritage. Xavier Traversier’s family had once been the most important...

The Country Girl Empress tells of the early days of Princess Elisabeth, daughter of Duke Max in Bavaria, called Sisi within the family. We follow her story from birth to the day she married Franz Joseph, son of Archduchess Sophie of Austria and her feeble-minded...

The Fall and the Impact is a short story by Ben Walker. Written from the viewpoint of a bomb in World War II (known as Little Boy), this tale tells of Little Boy’s recurring dream – one which brings such thrill and delight to Little...

The Pencil Case by Lorraine Cobcroft tells the story of a young boy and his sister in Australia, who were forcibly removed from their family and ‘taken into care.’ The reason for this was the inadequate care given to the children whose parents were too...

In a story set in a small village near Moscow in 1941, as German troops invade Russia, young Serafima declares her love for Victor, a Soviet Officer, but denies him physically before he is sent to the front to fight. When the German army occupies...

The genteel south may have gone down in flames, but Abigail Ruth shows readers that the indomitable spirit of the south cannot be squashed in her compelling historical romance, The Lady’s a Rebel. The year is 1864 and much of Vicksburg, Mississippi has been pillaged,...