This is the first book of a trilogy, hence it has a certain amount of introductory material. As at the end of "The Fellowship of the Ring", the ending of this book finishes something, but it clearly leads into the next book. One sign of...

"Hammer Come Down" begins in Alabama in the 1830's. President Andrew Jackson has ordered Native Americans to relocate from their eastern and southern American locales to the Western territories. Jason, an African-American bondsman to Tolin Cobb, returns with Tolin from the Seminole wars in Florida...

Marco Lobo's "The Witch Hunter's Amulet" is story of the age old struggle for territories and religions. When Portugal occupied India in the sixteenth century it sought to fling out the ancient religions of Islam and Hinduism by whatever means necessary. The tactics of the...

After Rose ran off with Ian her family disowned her. Life with Ian was not what she expected; he was a drunk and a gambler as well as a wife beater. Ian was killed working in a mine in Nevada. At only nineteen, Rose was...

Our tale begins in the years before the Civil War. River Hunter is the son of a Cherokee mother and long-disappeared and probably dead Scotch-Irish father. Despite his Native American looks, he pursues reading and an education in Alabama. River's goal is to become a...

I always love a good historical novel that can seamlessly take us back and forth between two time periods. Michelle Kallio's "Betrayal" does exactly that. This is the story of two women: a happily dating modern day woman living in Canada named Lydia and Anne...

"A Diary with a Difference" by Martin Line is an interesting juxtaposition of two diaries - a contemporary one by Judith Thomas, a slightly reserved 20-year-old with a keen eye for political comment, and the 17th century account by Jane McCarthy, one of Judith’s forbears,...

"The Beltane Choice" by Nancy Jardine takes us back in time to Celtic Great Britain in 71 AD. Nancy Jardine weaves a fantastic tale of Nara, a princess of a tribe called the Selgovae who had planned to become a priestess but was banished. So...

Elvish Prophecy, the first novel in The Paladin Chronicles by Neil Port, is an intriguing story that weaves fantasy with history. Two groups of elves, The Western and the Eastern Elves, once ruled over the humans in the area around Greece and Turkey, but have...

Marike is Prussian, but after World War II ends, she and her four children, Heinz, Elisabet, Helena and Edel, her sister Agathe and her children, and their elderly mother and father seek refuge in designated camps in Denmark. Marike's husband, Horst, has been missing in...