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...

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...

Janell Strube’s Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is set in eighteenth-century Paris. Adélaïde Labille dreams of becoming a professional painter despite laws and artistic institutions that reserve this arena for men. Encouraged by her father while facing relentless pressure from her mother to secure a...

A Christmas Reborn: A New Era in Scrooge's Redemption by Scott A. Johnson follows Ebenezer Scrooge, who assumes responsibility for the welfare of his late nephew Fred’s family and the broader impoverished population of London. Scrooge mentors children, particularly Tom, providing education, moral guidance, and...

Mike Trippiedi's historical novel, Abraham Lincoln's Traveling Medicine Show, recounts the historical events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, blending them with fictional elements that add emotional depth to a story deeply rooted in the turbulent events immediately following the end of the nineteenth-century Civil...

Ascent: House of Normandy Book 1 by Cathie Dunn is a richly textured historical novel that features a little-known yet pivotal woman in medieval history, the enigmatic Poppa of Bayeux. We find ourselves back in the 9th century in Neustria, during a time of Viking...

Among the Beautiful Beasts by Lori McMullen is a historical journey told in the first-person voice of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. But it is also the story of Miami. In its infancy, Miami, Florida, in 1919, began growing with all the awkwardness of a petulant child....

A Boy at War is a work of non-fiction in the historical, action, and military subgenres. The book is best suited to mature readers as it contains explicit language, sexual situations, and graphic violence. Penned by author Bill Maier, this work recounts his experiences as...

Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell is a work of fiction in the Christian historical fiction, interpersonal drama, and political suspense subgenres. It is best suited to mature readers owing to some moderately violent scenes, some cursing and non-graphic sexual references, as well...

Amias, by Thomas Penn Johnson, is a theatrical play set in Elizabethan England. Johnson primarily uses inns and taverns as settings, where multiple characters discuss philosophy, religion, law, the succession of the monarchy, and the climate of the time. These scenes are lively and diverse,...