For as long as Bonita could remember, life on Captain William Richardson’s hacienda Sausalito, Yerba Buena, had been good. However, it suddenly became rocky after Captain Richardson’s sister Hannah committed suicide. First Bonita realized that she was not the captain’s niece as she had been...

In February 1806, Esme Conrad and her aunt Hannah board the Britannia on a mission. Esme’s family owns a shipping fleet, and the Britannia faces consistent sabotage and vandalism. Headed for French Canada, Esme is on board to investigate. However, Lord Strachan, aka Landon, her...

The Soul Machines is a work of fiction in the history, mystery, family saga, and interpersonal subgenres. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Alexandru Czimbor. Set in Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s,...

Tainted Harvest by E. Denise Billups is the first book in the Simone Doucet series. Simone Doucet is a travel writer searching for a purpose in her life. A new assignment sees her heading off to Natchez, Mississippi, to the Magnolia Sunrise bed and breakfast....

Call of the Blackbird is a historical fiction mystery novel by Nancy Polk Hall. Carrie Mitchell travels to France to visit her childhood friend Colette and after a week, decides to take a break. She rents a car, drives into the French countryside, and takes...

Time Stealers: Time Keepers Chronicles 1 by P. Clauss is an intriguing novel about a group of people who call themselves the Time Keepers. They have the gift of being able to see the time wraiths, the name they give to beings that live in...

In Voices in the Sanitorium by Amy Lynn Walsh, Kathleen and Collin have to relocate with their four children from Manhattan to Scranton, near the ruins of West Mountain Sanitorium, where people with tuberculosis went to be treated in the 1930s. Aislyn, their eldest teenage...

The aftermath of the bubonic plague, dubbed the great pestilence, was a difficult time for everyone. It was especially tough for Appel and Efi, who lost their families to the plague. Lacking any means to feed her drunk husband and twelve children, Gritta faced a...

Streets of Shadow by Rebecca Bischoff is a historical fiction novel that follows its protagonist, Kenna Somerled, a 17th-century teenager and granddaughter to an earl. Her life at this point should be on the brink of blooming and not the deadly spiral that lands her...

Bulwer-Lytton’s classic opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night,” has met with considerable disdain over the years, but, in reality, beginning a story with a horrific storm is a good way to set the scene and engage readers. Set the scene in two...