In Caryn Green’s Better Angel, a sixty-six-year-old Chicago journalist sets out in 2017 to cross America by train while researching a story about the Transcontinental Railroad. Lost in Washington, DC, she meets a lanky thirty-one-year-old man who claims to be Abraham Lincoln, physically returned from...

Pat Wahler’s Beyond the Sky’s Edge begins in 1912 St. Louis, when eighteen-year-old Livvie Newcomb returns home from boarding school after discovering that aviation offers a future far different from the marriage her parents expect her to accept with wealthy family friend Leonard Wyatt. Determined...

Deborah Cohen’s Boleyn Time: The Boleyn Bloodline Book 2 is a well-crafted, character-driven, and immensely enjoyable fantasy interwoven with historical fiction, time travel, witchcraft, and romance. The story is told across two time lines, in 1519 and in the present day. Much of the story...

Brigham’s Brides by D.W. Plato is a historical fiction novel about the complex and often misunderstood world of early Mormon polygamy. Told primarily through the perspectives of Mary Ann Angell Young and Louisa Beaman, the book offers an emotional exploration of the lives of women...

Butterfly Games: A Novel of the Swedish Royal Court by Kelly Scarborough is set in early 19th-century Sweden, where Countess Jacquette Gyldenstolpe becomes involved with Prince Oscar, heir to the throne, while tensions grow around the recently established Bernadotte monarchy. Raised without much parental involvement...

Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow is a moving historical novel by Lumbee author Kelvin Ray Oxendine. It is an evocative revisiting of the thrilling events that led up to the Battle of Hayes Pond in 1958, between the Lumbee/ Tuscarora Native American communities and the Ku...

Set in 19th-century rural England, Betsey by Marcia Clayton is a gripping prequel to The Hartford Manor Series. It follows the early life of Betsey Lovering, an eight-year-old child growing up poor with a mother struggling to take care of her children, a father whose...

Born to Trouble: The Clan Donald Saga Book 4 by Regan Walker continues the superb historical fiction series built around the Donalds and their kin in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland around the 15th century. Alexander is Lord of the Isles and heir to...

Behold the Bird in Flight by Terri Lewis centers around Isabelle d’Angoulême, a twelfth-century French-born aristocrat who longs to forge her identity in a world dominated by powerful men. While growing up, Isabelle is groomed by her Maman to run a castle and be a...

Behind the Pickle Jar by Wendy McQuaig is a delightful story set in two eras. Amy Hewston is tired and anxious. When she is forced into taking time off, her husband rents a farmhouse where they can relax and spend time together with their teens....