The circumstances of some of the most intriguing but unsuccessful assassination attempts in history are covered in Longsword: Edward and the Assassin by Dimitar Gyopsaliev, which is set in the thirteenth-century Holy Land. We follow the story of Peter, an orphan who was raised in...

The war was on in the late 60s, and Katya had it rough. Katya was a Polish girl from a traditional family that didn’t value female education. She also lived in a state that suppressed women’s rights to decide what happens to their bodies. Katya...

Lords of the Black Banner: A Mongolian Epic (Fractured Empire Saga Book 2) by Starr Z. Davies is exactly what the title implies: a true epic of Mongolian life, death, treachery, and an empire in decline, carefully held together by a cobbled alliance of Mongolian...

Lace Curtain by Jeanne Charters is set during the Civil War from 1857 and begins on Mary Boland and Daniel Kelly’s wedding day in Massachusetts. Daniel becomes one of the best lawyers in Boston and Mary opens a birthing clinic. They have one daughter, Nellie,...

Pamela Hamilton’s biographical style work of fiction, Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale, tells the story of an extraordinary life. In the 1920s and 30s, socialite Dorothy Hale graced high society and elite circles, rubbing shoulders with prominent figures and becoming...

Frederick Law Olmsted is known as the “father of American landscape architecture.” He designed large city public parks as well as the grounds for private estates, academic institutions, and other famous sites. What is not as well-known are the facts about his wife, family, and...

The year is 1660 and Lady Elizabeth is once again bound to resurrect some secret treasures of her late grandfather’s writing, most particularly a memoir that could rock the security of Lady Elizabeth’s world and that of her family. You see, her grandfather was none...

L’Agent Double: Spies and Martyrs in the Great War by Kit Sergeant takes us deep inside the lives of three young women from very different backgrounds during the First World War, some unknown and one particularly infamous, as they ply their secretive trade, each with...

J.R. Rogers' historical fiction novel Leopold's Assassin is set in the time period of 1902-1903. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, is forced to flee from his native Italy because of his political anarchist tracts. In London, his active involvement in anarchist field operations deepens his...

Lotta Crabtree was an American actress, entertainer, and comedian. She was also a philanthropist. Born Charlotte Mignon Crabtree in New York to English parents, she was raised in the gold mining hills outside San Francisco. This information is provided as a background story for the...