Justina has moved into her new dorm room and she’s settled into her classes. With all the course work, she hardly pays attention to the mysterious antique mirror left behind in her room. That is until the elaborate jewel embedded in the frame starts glowing...

Unhappy that a university friend whom she believed she could love has drifted away, Isa convinces herself that marriage to his roommate would be a good match and allows herself to drift into an unsuitable wedding. A few unhappy years later, and having recovered from...

Malia Zaidi's mystery and historical fiction novel, The Golden Hour: A Lady Evelyn Mystery, is set in Scotland in 1927. Malmo Manor is Evelyn Carlisle's Scottish family home of her aunts Iris and Agnes. Evelyn is at Malmo Manor for the upcoming wedding of her...

“Midnight was ever the hour of fatality at Thornfield” – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre. The Hour of Fatality: A Jane Rochester Mystery is written by LeAnne McKinley. Jane Eyre’s recent marriage to Mr. Rochester hasn’t been very blissful. Their caretaker at Thornfield Hall resigns unexpectedly,...

A retired elderly professor and his wife receive a parcel that contains a large old manuscript bound in leather and copper-like material with a key, along with several black onyx cubes with tiny, thread-like white markings like runes on the surface of each cube. Baffled...

Strange things are starting to happen to Ellie Bowlan in Boleyn Curse by Deborah Cohen. And it all begins with her Ph.D. comprehensive exam and the cryptic assignment, “Anne Boleyn. Woman or Witch?”. Ellie is following in her father’s footsteps, a historian at heart. Her...

Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen revolves around Gunnar (a blacksmith), an uninvited/unknown guest, Sigurd, and a very strange community in Iceland. Gunnar is a very private person who doesn't like anybody other than his dog and his horse. He doesn't keep track of time, days, or...

The Farm Fires by Laurie Loveman is the third book in the historical fiction mystery series, the Firehouse Family, preceded by book one, Memories, and book two, The Quarry. Reading as a stand-alone (but definitely enhanced by the first two installments), Loveman returns readers to...

The Quarry is the second novel in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman. Set in 1933, the story follows a group of characters as they navigate the adventure called life while trying to survive. Life in their small town is not that interesting so...

All Our Girls is the fifth book in the Firehouse Family series by Laurie Loveman, a well-crafted novel with strong themes and compelling female protagonists. It is the 1930s in New York, and the sex trafficking business is flourishing. One of the people with the...