I grew up on Western movies and TV shows, as did most Baby Boomers. For a long time, I bought the version of how the West was won that I saw in those movies. Then I started reading and grew up. The real people of...

Wolf Wood (Part One The Gathering Storm) by Mike Dixon is an excellent period piece set in 1436-1437 in late medieval England. The story is based upon the conflict over ownership and use of a baptismal font, with the two sides being All Hallows Church,...

Kelly McGuffin and William Wyllie are adjusting to life in Boonesborough after the rest of the Wyllie clan has moved to their homestead sites in Whispering Hills of Love, Volume 3 of the American Wilderness Series Romance by Dorothy Wiley. Life in this Kentucky frontier...

Whispers From The East is a dramatic and realistic novel by Amie Ali. This culture clash novel begins in August of 1947, at the time when the partition between India and Pakistan is established, and millions of Muslims find themselves on the wrong side of...

White Fanged Blue Bitch is a seafaring adventure tale by Captain Art Ayotte in the historical fiction genre. The plot centers on a young man named Leo Arnold, just turned sixteen, who is tempted by the seemingly inviting and adventurous life of being at sea....

Wai-Nani is an exciting historical drama about a Hawaiian girl from a royal family, who runs away from her family to escape an unwanted wedding. She swims to another island, and there she meets and falls in love with Makaha, who is a son of...

Gerard LaSalle’s Widow Walk is a brave account of history, shared mainly from a woman’s perspective as her husband is killed by savages, and her son is taken by the savages to be traded as a slave. The woman, Emmy, is married to an aborigine...

Wilderness Trail of Love (American Wilderness Series Romance) (Volume 1) by Dorothy Wiley is set in 1797, on America's frontier. Stephen Wyllie longs for land in far away Kentucky, and he is willing to brave the wilderness and all the perils of traveling there to...

Watermark by Sari Sikstrom is the story of a young woman’s search for her own identity. Vela lives in the shadow of her famous opera singer mother and was raised by her grandparents. Although her mother was often away when she was young, Vela has...

Whore of Babylon by Azaria Frost is a beguiling tale of love and loss during the time of oppressive conquerors and rulers in ancient Sumeria. Growing up in Nippur, Eliana and her sister, Kisha, have their lives shattered when Samsu, an invading prince from Babylonia,...