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...

Set in the Ottoman capital during the winter of 1602, Rebellion and Deceit, book two in the Empires and Kingdoms series by David Eugene Andrews, follows Aisha, sister of Sultan Mehmet III, as she leaves her residence near the Hippodrome and enters a palace system...

Hazel Sallington is the daughter of a baron. Sadly for her, her mother passed away when she was very young, and her father remarried. When he also passed, her stepmother, the new Lady Sallington, showed her true colors, banishing Hazel to a life of servitude...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

In North Western by Jordan Elizabeth, readers meet Adair, a woman living in Utica who has recently lost her husband. Shortly after his death, she decides to take her daughter, Edith, and return to her childhood home in the small village of North Western. Upon...

In A Trail to Love by Joanne Kiersarsky, the story begins in the early 19th century with a young soldier named Rex who falls for Felicity, the daughter of a powerful and rather ruthless senator. After her father tries to force her into a marriage...

In Nicholas Teeguarden’s The Boy from the Vines, in Paris, Ruth finds a journal written by Joseph Durand, a young man living on a French vineyard during the German occupation of 1940, and begins tracing his movements to determine whether he was a real person....

A Faithful Companion by Kasey Stockton is a delightful example of one of my favorite genres. Emma Darling was deeply in love with her neighbor’s nephew, Owen Buckley. When he visited his aunt and uncle in Derbyshire, he and Emma experienced an idyllic summer filled...