In Entertaining Mr. Pepys by Deborah Swift, Mary Elizabeth was born into an affluent family. She lived a comfortable life in her father’s house until he married a woman named Dorcas. Her father was so wrapped around Dorcas’s finger that he didn’t pay enough heed...

Ellie & The War On Powder Creek is the second book in The Dolan Girls Series by S. R. Mallery. Ellie is going through a hard time. After losing her baby in a riding accident, she has an emptiness inside her that she feels nothing...

Edith and the Mysterious Stranger takes place in the early 1900s when an independent woman was still a novelty. Linda Weaver Clarke skillfully incorporates her family heritage into this romantic work. A woman’s choices were limited after she married, so Edith was determined to find...

In Everything We Lose, two young boys are telling us the story of the Civil War. One boy, Adam, is white and living on a small farm with his mom and sister without his dad, who had gone off to fight for the freedom of...

In Mari Collier’s novel, Earthbound, the first book in a series of six, Chronicles of the Maca, we find Zebadiah MacDonald stranded on earth, struggling to survive in the western American frontier. He knows the location of the ship which brought him there, but not...

Enticed by Lady Elianna by Amanda Mariel is a delightful love story. When Elianna loses her father, she is unsure of what her future will hold. When she meets her cousin who now bears her late father’s title, everything she had imagined that could go...

Reading a novel like Escape From Vietnam: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard Cohen is so much more than enjoying an intricate, riveting plot and engaging with realistic and touching characters. It’s an opportunity for enlightenment, not just about the horrors experienced...

It is 1936 in Berlin with the start of Richard Carl Roth's historical fiction novel, Endangered Eagle, A Karl von Ernst Mystery. Hitler is at the helm and Germany is preparing for the world to arrive for the Summer Olympics. In an effort to bolster...

The First Nations of the Northwest coast of British Columbia have a long and vibrant history, one that includes numerous myths and legends that they carved into their stories as well as their totem poles. So much of that history has disappeared, along with the...

If you like historical fiction with a military theme, Ever the Wayward Sky by Oliver Phipps is for you. Set in the period just after the American Civil War, it describes the travels of James Taft, a former sergeant in the Union cavalry. Having inflicted...