Maxime Trencavel’s The Matriarch Mission follows Oksana Mangupli, a Krymchak Jewish young woman in 1913 Crimea whose failed arranged marriage sends her out of her father’s house and into the guarded Romanov world above Yalta. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich discovers her reading about Agarttha, an...

Kaylon Bruner Tran brings us nostalgic historical fiction in Uncle Tom’s Granddaughter. When eighteen-year-old Jessica Dalton has to complete a combined assignment for both History and English class, she has no clue about the journey she is about to embark upon. Choosing the well-known Uncle...

On December 6, 1932, in Los Angeles, world traveler Aloha Wanderwell’s famous husband, Walter “Cap” Wanderwell, is murdered aboard their schooner Carma in Laurel Corona’s Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel. Aloha and her devoted sister, Miki, grieve with the children. But they have to deal...

Eric Picard’s novel, The Hazard Trade, is riveting historical fiction, a thrilling story of rebellion and espionage, set during the American Revolution. The characters include both fictional characters as well as real historical figures. In 1778, Newport, a port city on Aquidneck Island, is struggling...

It is 1891. Richard Carnby, Terrence Alexander “Axel” Hastings, Percival Wallace, Dr. Stanthorpe Whitehall, Emma Westover, and Jane Halifax each receive a letter offering membership in a clandestine organization. To accept, they must appear at a specific address. As they heed the invitation, they meet...

Voices on the Wind -- Assault by Helena P. Schrader is an epic story of courage and defiance in the face of a relentless enemy and incredible deprivation. The first of a series based on the historic defense of the island of Malta by the...

Rise is a historical fiction coming-of-age drama by Kat Helgeson. It's the year 1968. Joanie Beckett has recently moved to Houston, Texas, with her family, who are in the limelight because her father, Walter, is an astronaut at Cape Kennedy. Joanie has been taught to...

Massawa by Pam Webber is set in 1942, when Kit Thomas leaves Washington for Eritrea as an OSS courier under Navy cover. American payroll money for civilian laborers at the naval base in Massawa has vanished, and serial numbers from that cash have surfaced through...

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...