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,...

Saving Vincent by Joan Fernandez centers around Jo van Gogh Bonger, the widow of Theo van Gogh, as she pushes boundaries in the fight to preserve and promote the legacy of her brother-in-law, Vincent van Gogh, after Theo’s death. Jo is determined to make sure...

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...