The Legend of Valentine by Sheldon Collins follows Valentine Romanus, a Roman soldier in 3rd-century Rome, who saves an empress during a raid. Pining over a prior love, Valentine sleeps with a married noblewoman with connections to power players like General Claudius. He also forms...

The Queen's Musician by Martha Jean Johnson follows Mark Smeaton and Madge Shelton in King Henry VIII's court during Anne Boleyn's rise and subsequent downfall. Mark receives a lute from Cardinal Wolsey and gains prominence as a royal musician, while Madge prepares for her cousin...

Elizabeth St.John brings us brilliant historical fiction in The King’s Intelligencer. Set in London in the year 1674, Franny Apsley is the favorite of Lady Mary Stuart, the future Queen of England. When bones are found by the stairs in the Tower of London, Franny’s...

Dracula: Finding of a Shadow by Lisa Monde is a playscript that begins in 19th-century Bran Castle, Romania, where Count Dracula emerges from his coffin, consumed by his desire to regain his lost shadow, a symbol of his power and identity. As he seeks to...

From Tickhill, 1348 by Pamela Taylor is a historical fiction novel that delves into the tumultuous political landscape of medieval France. The story follows Jeanne de Flandre, the wife of John de Montfort, who is named the Duke of Brittany in his half-brother's will. When...

The Baths of Caracalla by Robert N Eckert takes the reader deep inside the very personal lives of the powerful rulers of the Western Roman Empire as it was in decline and close to collapse. Emperor Septimus Severus was the all-powerful, all-conquering ruler of the...

Rebel Empress by Faith L. Justice is a towering saga of love, loss, betrayal, and political machinations in the Imperial Court of principally the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth century. Athenais is the beautiful daughter of an ordinary Athenian scholar. When her father dies...

The Imposter by Johanna van Zanten is a moving, heartfelt story about one woman’s journey through the turbulent and dangerous world of twentieth-century Europe during and after the two world wars. Johanna was born into a country she believed to be her own, Germany, but...

One of the best ways to learn history is through stories, and I have always enjoyed reading stories about women in history who have defied convention to lead compelling lives. In Kit Sergeant’s historical novel Marie-Madeleine, we meet one such woman, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who joins...

Ivory Tower by Colin Heston is a clever homage to the Sherlock Holmes tradition, transplanting the classic detective duo into academia's quirky and insular world. The novel is structured as an anthology, with each story recounting a distinct mystery unraveled by the enigmatic Professor Thomas...