I wasn't totally sure what I was getting into when I picked up The Romanov Episode by Clive Radford, but I’m glad I did. It’s one of those books where you realize pretty quickly that you're holding something special. It isn't just another mystery; it’s...

The Scoundrel Scot is the first book in the Highland Hearths series by Vanda Vadas. The story follows Lachlan MacLanoch, a rakish Scottish laird who is unwilling to marry after past betrayals and his apparent wariness of love. However, he has a soft heart that...

Laura Beers brings us a Regency romance with hints of action in A Brilliant Defiance: Courting the Unconventional Book 6. The year is 1814, and Lady Jane Lyttelton has always done what society expected and what her father and brother dictated. And as she stood...

Set in the late 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, The Witch Hunter's Wife by Jessica Lunt follows the ordeal of a young, married woman during the Salem Witch Trials. It's been ten years since Caroline Choate moved to Salem with her husband, John,...

Mercy Leroux’s We Are Not Strangers follows two warriors engaged on opposite sides of the American Revolution in 1775 Boston. Matthew Wilcox is a British grenadier concealing his social identity, and Josiah Cairn is a young American patriot struggling to prove his worth and masculinity...

I Wash My Hands: The ‘Autobiography’ of Pontius Pilate by P. Drew Warren is a historical novel written in the style of an autobiography from Pontius Pilate's point of view. Pontius Pilate recounts his experiences as the Roman Governor in Judea and his decision during...

Outcasts of Essex by Jane Hulse is a wonderful historical tale of war, romance, and patriotism, set in the eighteenth century during the Revolutionary War. Sarah Barrett is just fifteen and is often required by her midwife mother to assist in the births of local...

Braving the Dawn by Peggy Joque Williams is a multi-layered and nuanced historical romance set on the frontier of French Canada toward the end of the seventeenth century. Sylvienne d’Aubert held a position of some prominence in the French court. As a lady in waiting...

Where Rivers Run West by Will Colt is a brilliant historical novel. At the age of sixteen, Rory Fraser decided to make his dream of prospecting in Colorado come true. He left behind the Indiana farm he had worked with his father and older brother...

In Those Coming Back by Alanna R. Clutter, readers meet a young girl named Catherine. It’s 1869, and she and her family are about to embark on a big move, leaving Ohio and her maternal grandparents to go to Iowa to help work her paternal...