Funeral Games by Alexander Geiger begins when Alexandros, known to history as Alexander the Great, dies in Babylon with no adult son ready to inherit his empire. Ptolemaios Soter, one of his Macedonian generals, has a secret: he was born in another era, sent into...

Helyn Dunn’s Valor is the riveting and well-crafted story of Ena, a young Druid, and her quest to find purpose and meaning in her life. This is Book 2 of The Evensong Enchantments Trilogy, and many details of Book 1, Sacrifice, are interwoven. The story...

Ernesto H Lee's Lines Drawn in the Marsh is set in 18th-century Lincolnshire, where Lady Eleanor Ainsworth dons a mask as a highway rider after Julian Ashford, heir to Ashford Manor, advances a plan to drain the southern marsh used by local families for grazing....

Catherine Meyrick’s And the Women Watch and Wait is a historical novel set in Australia during World War I. Kate Burke moves to Melbourne to help her Aunty Mary run the family shop while her cousins serve overseas. Before long, Kate’s sweetheart, Jack Sheehan, leaves...

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...

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

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...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...