Lee Mattingly is a complex man, having shown many different aspects in his life. Starting as a teenaged gambler, he joins the South to fight in the Civil War. After four hard years, he returns to his gambling and along the way picks up the...

Tracks: Racing the Sun is a historical fiction novel written by Sandro Martini. Journalist Joe Deutsch has come to Venice to speak with Johnny Finestrini, a retired journalist and author, at the hotel where he's living in L'Isola Del Lido. It's 1968, and the story...

Bloodied footprints in the snow ... in Revolution Rising: Book Two of the Tewkesbury Chronicles by Jo Gillespie. In the winter of 1778, the fledgling Continental Army is encamped at a place called Valley Forge. Times are extremely hard, with a lack of food and...

David Chadwick transports the turmoil of the US Civil War to Liverpool, England, in his historical novel, Liberty Bazaar. An escaped slave, Trinity Giddings, finds safety and friendship among the affluent of Liverpool. However, even across the ocean, far from the bondage of the...

World War I had a very complicated history, but there was one man – a fictional character – who stumbled into at least half of the important battles of the war. That man is Peter Kovacs, correspondent for the New York Evening Post and hero...

When Susanna Quiner went out of the Ohio house she shared with her four sisters in order to feed the pig one morning, she did not imagine she might not see them for a very long time, or even forever. Thieving Forest by Martha Conway...

Mary Anne Wilson's early life in a parsonage was nothing compared to the exciting life as an actress in the London theaters. Of course, after her father passed away and her mother remarried a groping monster, the girl had no choice but to accept an...

Rainbow Gardens by James Malone follows a Japanese-American immigrant named Harry Shikita during the turmoil-filled times surrounding the WWII era. As an immigrant, Harry faces numerous challenges such as fitting in, enduring racial discrimination, as well as attempting to make his business ‘Rainbow Gardens’ (a...

Dr. Don Ellis is a brilliant quantum physics scientist and widower. After losing his wife and child in the South Tower, he spends the next ten years building a time machine. His intent is apparent — to change the course of history and reanimate his...

Forty Grains of Black Powder is a generational saga about a fictional mestizo family in Mexico. It is book one in the tale of the Cordero Clan. The story starts in 1862 when the young Marietta, the mother of the protagonist, spots a handsome stranger...