Warwick Gleeson's Torment Becomes Them delivers a spellbinding meld of fantasy and historical fiction. The story opens in the Bukhtarma River Valley as the greatest Kazakh magician, Zolo Bold, watches his democratic revolution crushed by black warlock Arislan Gur’s conjured rain of giants. His struggles...

Lady Scandal by Kate Serzenta is a compelling historical novel. Felix wants to save his indebted estate. He must convince Lord Colborne to become his business partner to secure capital. He also wants to find a wife. Georgiana Hargreaves is happy that she can still...

Can a single letter change everything? That’s the question at the heart of All That Remains by Samantha Grosser. Eva and Ben have been married for decades, but they receive news that forces them to revisit a painful part of his past. The story alternates...

Unmasking the Diamond by Laura Beers takes readers on a daring mystery as the main characters uncover a deadly secret. Women are disappearing, and Lord Luca is determined to find answers. As the owner of the local newssheets, his journalist instincts are tingling. But first...

Justice is not always neat. It can be quite chaotic. Melvin E. Edwards’ Nuremberg, Mississippi is set against the background of one of America’s most tumultuous times – the Civil Rights era. When Henry Logan is arrested for violating a local law about after-dark restrictions...

Robert Liebertz’s Gerard’s Map follows Gerard Sharp, captain of the merchant ship Tawny Mane, after he deciphers ten multilingual clues beside an invisible map linked to the Haywood, a vessel lost twenty-six years earlier while carrying a fortune. Gerard leaves England with his wife Samantha...

Kohōpeh’s The Kabuki Book takes place in Japan after the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, as Tokugawa power begins settling over Kyō. Okuni no Izumo is an exiled shrine maiden traveling to the capital after brigands steal her ox cart. When a servant abandons her on...

Salt & Honey by Candi Miller is a well-researched historical novel set in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s. I knew very little about this piece of history, and it is exactly as sad as I thought it would be. The story follows Koba,...

Some journeys change far more than your destination. In Forsaking All Others, Jo Horne takes readers back to 1858 Missouri, where Annabelle “Belle” Carrington's life appears carefully planned. However, as her engagement approaches, she begins to have doubts. At the center of her world is...

Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...