Brenda Murphy's When Light Breaks Through is a well-researched historical novel based on the 1692 Salem Village witchcraft trials in Massachusetts. The characters are based on actual figures of the time. At the story's core is the challenge of helping a deeply divided community to...

Driver's Diary: Death at the Mouth of Flowers by Sean and Columbia Hillen explores the unresolved death of rebel leader Michael Collins in 1922. The authors set the story in 2022, with only days leading to the 100-year commemoration of the infamous leader's role in...

A Delicate Marriage by Margarita Barresi is a classic work of historical fiction that belongs on the bookshelf alongside The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisited, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and many more. In Puerto Rico in 1935, we meet Isabela Soto—a spoiled socialite who wants...

Not the Same Water by Karen Black is a beautiful, bittersweet romance set in the 1890s in the American West. Becky Russell is a young woman training to be a clothing designer in Red Wing, Minnesota, on the shores of the Mississippi River. When she...

Gisele and the Northman by R.H. Mai is a historical fiction novel set in medieval Paris during a conflict between the Franks and the Northmen. The story follows Gisele, a young princess, caught up in political turmoil when her father, the king, arranges her marriage...

Not My War by Valerie Anne Hudson is a historical fiction drama that follows a young woman navigating life in Nazi-occupied Paris. Louise "Lulu" Bellingham has had enough of English boarding schools and eagerly awaits the return to her home in Paris. But soon after...

Special District: Harbin Book 2: The Tigers of East Mountain by Tim Stickel is a historical mystery. The body of a local Jewish businessman is found in a back alley in Harbin, China. Borya was on probation to become an inspector in the Harbin Judicial...

Rescuing Crockett by David Z. Pyke begins in 1838 when a surprising portrait in the Prussian Embassy in Mexico City hints at the survival of Davy Crockett, a beloved American frontiersman thought to have died at the Alamo. Stirred by this revelation, Powhatan Ellis, the...

In the novel Ghoul of Sherwood: The Robin Hood Mysteries by Jay Ruud, Robin Hood returns to Sherwood Forest and infiltrates the Sheriff of Nottingham's archery competition incognito, only to be caught at the last moment. With the help of Lady Maude, the sheriff's wife,...

E.C. Roderick's Taken is the first book in the Taken series. Sylvina was a pediatrician in Santa Monica who flew to New York to celebrate Christmas with her best friend’s family. Sylvina continued to mourn the loss of her husband three and a half years...