Echoes from the River by Kathryn Lane follows Francesca Morales de la Garza, an eighteen-year-old bride from Mexico, who is thrust into an arranged marriage and moves to a remote part of Australia in the 1970s. What begins as the story of a young bride...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

Sherry Christie’s Amber Road is set along Rome’s Danube frontier during Caligula’s reign. Marcus Licinius Carinna is living as Marcus Aquilo in the provincial town of Carnuntum after his father’s attack on the emperor changes his standing in Rome. Marcus is waiting for Aurima, a...

Our Hands Are Pale as Milk by Sara Kay Rupnik tells the story of three sisters and their obsession with the poet Percy Shelley. He is cunning and sly, but all the sisters see is charismatic charm. Hiding behind a mask of compassion, the poet’s...

Janet Wertman’s What Love E’er Meant opens in 1558 as Elizabeth Tudor waits at Hatfield House, her residence, for proof that her half-sister Queen Mary I has died. The message places the twenty-five-year-old princess on England’s throne, where choosing how the kingdom will worship affects...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

Rob Samborn’s The Swordsman of Venice is set in 1589, when Angelo Mascari, a gifted Venetian swordsman from humble origins, flees the city after the Ancient Order of the Seventh Sun destroys the woman he loves. Isabella Scalfini, a nobleman’s daughter, has been used in...

Raymond Hackney’s A Plea for Freedom follows Daniel Asbury, a fifteen-year-old farm boy in Bedford County, Virginia, as the Revolution reaches his family in 1777. After Judge Charles Lynch punishes two captured Tories beneath the walnut tree in New London, Daniel’s desire for liberty becomes...

Rozsa Gaston’s Queen of Diamonds, book three of The Anne Boleyn Chronicles, follows young Anne Boleyn in France after she joins Queen Claude’s court in 1515. Anne is no longer the English girl learning manners abroad; she is watching powerful women build authority in rooms...

Not every history-making hero becomes a household name. Round the World: A Life of Jeanne Baret: Odyssey by C.R. Hurst details how Jeanne Baret became the first woman to sail around the world. It begins in France in the 1760s, where she’s working alongside botanist...