Path in the Dark by J. R. Tomlin follows Donald, a teenage Scottish novice who decides he has had quite enough of the harsh life in Lanercost Priory. Then he discovers a hidden document revealing he is actually the unacknowledged, illegitimate son of a powerful...

In Cindy Ellen Hill’s Leeds Point, Englishwoman Esther Waters arrives in colonial West Jersey in 1702, expecting to start married life with sea captain Edmund Talmedge. He soon sails away, leaving her in a solitary fishing shack amid tidal marshes where finding food becomes a...

Sometimes the person you least expect can change your entire future. In Moonshadow by Janine F. Harrison, Ruth Scanlon works as a housemaid at an estate. It’s 1876 in colonial Australia, and she has lived at Belletrees since she was a child. The Edgeworth family...

Where The Kouprey Walk by Som Phin follows Dara Nhem, a Cambodian American whose father, Boran, has spent decades searching for his older brother Saran, who vanished during the refugee crisis following Khmer Rouge rule. Now, someone has posted a photo of a man in...

It is the summer of 1940. The SS President Jackson has arrived in Shanghai, and aboard is Paul Obermann, a man fleeing law enforcement after an insurance-fraud scheme in San Francisco. It is bad enough that he is flat broke, as his partners made off...

Lucy Mercer, a farm girl from Sweetwater, Tennessee, is the protagonist in The Lie Collector by Ann Howard Creel. After her fiancé is hired to work at Oak Ridge, he goes missing after a short time. Lucy becomes a sleuth searching for answers to the...

Linda Dooks’ Land of Opportunity, Book Three begins in New York in 1914, when war in Europe sends desperate mothers and their children through Ellis Island. Rose Blackwood has spent years helping newcomers establish themselves in America, but the numbers now overwhelm the charitable houses...

In Broken: A Lester Caine Mystery by Fred Berri, investigators Lester Caine, Gloria Saville, and Ronald Walker tackle a horrific case that irreversibly shakes a small Florida town. The year is 1949, and the discovery of fourteen-year-old Rosie Salvo discarded in a Lantana dump lot...

The Spy’s Song, book three of Giovanna Siniscalchi's The Swans of Paris series, is set in 1815, when London ballerina Louise Bonnechoix conceals that she is Napoleon Bonaparte’s daughter. As Napoleon returns to power in France, British intelligence discovers her identity. Rodrick de Montfort, a...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...