Robert Brighton's The Mosquito God follows Hannah Black, a covert agent for Secretary of State John Hay, when President Theodore Roosevelt sends her to Panama to help secure the United States' control of the Panama Canal. Hannah poses as the wife of Maximilien Bellefonte, a...

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers traces the interwoven paths of the Heber family and the Mì’kmaq during the French and Indian War. The story centers on the son, Christian, whose kidnapping becomes the doorway into a new family and a new identity. In his adopted...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

In When They Came Home by Terri Lewis, we follow Milton, a standard American farm boy whose life is split in two after he gets shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in 1918. He survives the fighting, but the terrifying sights and sounds follow...

Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...

In Spanktown Papers by Jane Hulse, Sarah constantly finds herself caught between opposing viewpoints and difficult choices. She is an ambitious young newspaper employee during a time when women are rarely welcomed into public affairs. As the American Revolution unfolds and British forces approach Philadelphia,...

Neanderthal Sunset is a historical fiction novella by Steven Burgauer. Strong Arms is the leader of his increasingly depleting clan. He strives to fulfill his duties as mate to Big Curl, father to Wide Smiles, Fast Foot, and their siblings, as well as hunting and...

Wayne Clark’s El Gordo follows a veteran private investigator, Humph, as he attempts to unravel a highly complex and troubling criminal conspiracy operating in New York’s post-war jazz community. Everything starts when a talented neighborhood musician and painter named Roberto turns up dead. The murder...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...