Sir William Ellesworth, an Englishman of dubious reputation, is in Russia on a grand mission, one he hoped would stay a secret between him and his daughter Anna; assassinating the Tsar of Russia. However, perhaps taking his daughter to Nyaboskoye was a bad idea. Anna...

The Duty of Women by Caroline Willcocks follows Kat Cooke, a female musician living alongside the women of the Tudor court, who learns she is the secret daughter of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine of Aragon. Kat is wedged between loyalty to her mother,...

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...

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...

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...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enlistment in the Union Army XXV Corps by David J. Mason is a riveting historical fiction novel that places its protagonist at the heart of the Civil War's most challenging and transformative moments. At only seventeen, Parson Sykes is an...

The last words from Hinda’s father (Tatae in Yiddish) were: “You will live, and you will tell.” It has taken many years for her story to be written from eleven audio tapes that Hinda Mondlak Goldman recorded before she died in 1985. Tatae’s Promise by...

The year is 856. Princess Judith, the teenage daughter of King Charles of Francia, is being used as a pawn in her father's plans for political stability and advancement. Judith is expected to marry Aethelwulf, King of Wessex, a man who is forty years older...