Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

Some relationships are shaped as much by time and distance as they are by love. Bella’s life completely changes the moment she first sets eyes on Rami in Bella and Rami by Isobel de Border. She’s an Australian schoolgirl living in India in the 1980s,...

Not every castle is what it seems. Fiona’s trip takes an unexpected turn in Secrets of Castle Negru by K. Lyn Smith. A violent storm leaves her and her traveling companion stranded deep in the Carpathian Mountains. They reach a castle that has been converted...

Kathryn Le Veque’s Wolfehound follows Cambria de Royans, a young woman raised at Folkingham Castle who is preparing to marry Liam Herringthorpe, the northern knight promised to her since childhood. Cambria does not know she was born Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last...

Helyn Dunn’s Valor is the riveting and well-crafted story of Ena, a young Druid, and her quest to find purpose and meaning in her life. This is Book 2 of The Evensong Enchantments Trilogy, and many details of Book 1, Sacrifice, are interwoven. The story...

In Pete Thomas’s The Christmas Will, John Roberts Jenkins has spent his life believing his father died in World War I. Then James Thompson, a Missouri attorney, finds proof that his father was John Roberts, the late owner of JR’s Department Store in Poplar Bluff....

Destined Hearts, Dangerous Secrets: Hearts of Sparta Trilogy Book 2 by Anthea Laurelton is a love story for every historical romance lover. Xanthia was left to die as an infant. By the grace of the gods, she was rescued by two helots and raised in...

In Jennifer Ivy Walker's Dragonslayer's Valkyrie: The Legend of Sigurd and Brynhildr, Sigurd becomes a Sea Wolf warrior with a blood oath to avenge Sigmund, his murdered father, while Brynhildr, daughter of King Budli and Freyja, faces a royal decree tying marriage to combat. Their...

The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya introduces us to the Solokova sisters, Mariya, Sophia, and Darya. Former aristocrats, they have fallen on hard times after the death of their father. Consumption is running high in the city, and their mother is a victim. In a...

What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...