Category: Historical

Guest Post – Idaho Madams by Milana Marsenich

  Synopsis Fur, silver, and gold first lured men to Idaho Territory. Women soon followed. And what women they were! Molly B’Damn, Peg Leg Annie, Spanish Belle, Lou Beevers, Diamond Tooth Lil—the names alone promised excitement and intrigue. In fact, these madams led complex, turbulent lives. Meet Maggie Hall, a devout Catholic whose husband used […]

Review – The Patriots by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis From the author of the critically acclaimed Second Chance series comes the first book in the Stone Shed saga. When Noah Maclean, 22, races home from Europe, he finds a dying grandfather, a hidden letter, and a family secret that dates to the 1740s. He learns he is the keeper of a stone […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum

  Synopsis “In a well-crafted debut, Smith-Blum provides the reader a ringside seat to the birth of the nuclear age…a beautifully written, important story…Tangles packs a punch and hits close to home.” -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Tracy Crosswhite Series Oppenheimer was just the beginning. When a harpooned whale offers proof […]

New Release – The Best General in the Civil War by Conrad Bibens

  The Best General in the Civil War By Conrad Bibens Historical Fiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 6, 2024     Synopsis The North might have lost the Civil War if not for the heroics of a Southern-born general. The Best General in the Civil War tells the true story […]

Review – Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason

  Synopsis 1943 Twenty-four-year-old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making in a place he could never have imagined himself existing. 1965 Twelve-year-old Joseph Holliman is drowning in a life no one should have to endure. When he crosses […]

New Release & Giveaway – Richard Coke: Texan by Rosser Coke Newton, Sr.

  RICHARD COKE: TEXAN By Rosser Coke Newton, Sr. History / Biography Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Pages: 300 Publication Date: November 4, 2024   Synopsis Richard Coke played one of the most crucial roles in Texas history. His leadership of his beloved Texas still resonates today—150 years after he became governor. Richard Coke: Texan weaves […]

New Release & Excerpt – Thistle in the Mistletoe by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis A kiss under the Mistletoe brings good fortune, but can a Christmas wedding stop a deadly feud? The soft beauty beside him at the altar would make the perfect bride. Roderick MacDougall would do anything to stop the feud without more bloodshed. Too bad the gorgeous woman is the daughter of his greatest […]

New Release & Giveaway – The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia by Ettore Farrattini Pojani

  The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia By Ettore Farrattini Pojani Italian Literature / Historical Fiction Publisher: Bayou City Press Pages: 326 Publication Date: October 11, 2024     Synopsis This is the first (and only) English-language version of the award-winning Italian novel, The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia. Nine Lives is a love story […]

Review & Giveaway – Ink and Intrigue at the Ivy Tree Inn by Ellen Butler

    Ink and Intrigue at Ivy Tree Inn: An Ariadne Winter Mystery Historical Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Publisher ‏ : ‎ Power to the Pen (October 2, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages Synopsis Stumbling across a dead body could be the making … or breaking of an aspiring reporter. During […]

New Release – Sleeping in the Sun by Joanne Howard

  Synopsis In the last years of the British Raj, an American missionary family stays on in Midnapore, India. Though the Hintons enjoy white privileges, they have never been accepted by British society and instead run a boarding house on the outskirts of town where wayward native Indians come to find relief. Young Gene Hinton […]