Captain Jonathan Haraden, also known as “the Salamander”, has endured the deepest heartbreak of his life: losing his wife, Hannah. His grief is a heavy burden he constantly carries, but even so, the world continues to turn. Jon’s grief propels him back to sea with...

In The Wayfaring Widow by Casey Cline, Victoria, an English widow with secrets of a painful past, is sailing to America in the 1850s. She’s hoping for a fresh start and time with her friend, Isabella Bird. Victoria is reserved, while Isabella is more gregarious....

Pirate’s Alley by Thomas J Leveque is his second novel focused on the Chretien family. The narrative resumes with James Chretien encountering a distant relative as he relocates to Louisiana to join his family. Nanette Chretien, having been rejected by the Daughters of 1812, travels...

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” In Sincerely, Mildred by Ashley Rea, Mildred is a dreamer. So much so that the 19-year-old sometimes gets into trouble with her wandering mind at the cannery job...

Black Cattle by John Meilink is a stunningly powerful, disturbing, and deeply moving story of the slave trade from West Africa in the seventeenth century, told from the Dutch perspective. In the late 1600s across West Africa, European nations, Muslim traders, and African kings were...

It is 1941. A group of British officers of various ranks is being held in Stalag XXA, Poland, as POWs by the Germans. After a British colonel asks his juniors to gather intelligence, one officer overhears a conversation involving the camp commandant about a shipment...

Lady of Lincoln by Rachel Elwiss Joyce is a compelling historical novel set in 12th-century England that highlights the exploits of one brave woman at a time when women were just chattels to be bargained off in advantageous marriages. Nicola is the daughter of the...

Our Share of Morning by Laura Bonazzoli is a richly layered novel set against the backdrop of 1930s and 1940s America. It follows two sisters, Violet and Glory, living in a tenement overshadowed by the mysterious disappearance of Ada, a neighbor’s daughter. As poverty and...

Cotton Bondage by Dickie Erman is a compelling historical novel and the first book in The Road to Freedom series that vividly depicts the brutal experiences of slavery in the American South during the antebellum period. The story follows Eve, a young slave on Master...

Aletheia Vol I: In the Shadows by Luigi A Kohli is an emotionally gripping tale. Taking place a few years after Christ’s time on earth, the story delivers a new twist on the Ben-Hur narrative. A wonderful blend of cultures and motives clash as unlikely...