Dual Convergence: Witness to History by Angel Giacomo is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. The author has brought to life the history of the Roosevelt family in a very down-to-earth way – warts and all. Internal family...

Anna Belfrage’s Queen of Shadows is set in fourteenth-century Castile, where Alma’s future changes when she is taken into the household of Doña Leonor de Guzmán, the king’s companion whose position draws both favor and hostility. What begins as service becomes responsibility as Alma learns...

It is 1867. Captain David “Hondo” Stone of the Texas Rangers has been deployed on an assignment to Old San Antone, Texas. He is to apprehend Cy Jenkins, the son of a wealthy cattle baron, J.B. Jenkins, who is suspected of the murder of a...

Animal Conquest by David Bush follows Jean, a dispossessed dog forced from his estate after his brother’s death during a confrontation engineered by another, who leaves him under judgment and sent away from home. As he moves across unfamiliar lands, he gathers a small group...

Taboo & Transcending Tales by Rich Disilvio comprises five highly entertaining, deeply meaningful stories that explore themes and motifs of a philosophical and spiritual nature. From the problem of faith and art to arrogance and discoveries in science, the main characters face their histories and...

Love sometimes appears in the most mysterious places. In The Stranger I Love by Anneka R. Walker, Estelle Lowry makes the bold decision to leave home. Set in England in the 1850s, her choice becomes clear after her brother arranges a marriage for her to...

Robert Frost once wrote, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” In Autumn Ridge by Micaiah Munro, that sense of home is tied to a quiet cabin in Montana, where family history and personal struggles...

Angela Page Conti’s Enrico G is about Enrico Giuseppe Gardini, a man whose resilience is forged in fire from the 19th-century countryside of Abruzzo, Italy, to the streets of New York City. Growing up in a village where olive groves and strict traditions are the...

In The Cuban Manuscript, Lilian George tracks the life of Liana, a woman who escapes one suffocating communist regime only to find herself trapped in another one just like it. She starts in a Soviet-controlled country where her family’s property is taken away from them...

Miss Woodhouse and Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle is an absolutely delightful Regency romance, but with a fascinating twist. Jane Fairfax was a beautiful young woman whose family had fallen upon difficult financial times. Her nemesis, Emma Woodhouse, is by Regency standards, a rising young...