Category: Historical

New Release & Excerpt – Bad Girls Go Everywhere by Ellen Sherman

  Synopsis London 1968-The capital of cool. Against her parents’ wishes, Rin, a naïve but determined American 21-year-old, is off to study acting at an unconventional London drama school. So far Rin’s done everything right. This is her one chance to do something daring. London, electric and unpredictable, is full of characters who are as […]

Review – The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew by Denise Heinze

  Synopsis Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew-the wife of Virginia’s first two governors-puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. When she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609, Temperance Flowerdew […]

Excerpt – The Wild & Bittersweet by Ranae LaFerney

  Synopsis In 1984, Melody Baumann’s future is set—a summer trip to Europe, UC-Davis in the fall. She hopes to become a veterinarian like her father. But while abroad, she falls in love with British artist Michael Henley, then receives news that shatters everything: her father is dead. Back home, grief and years of tension […]

Review & Giveaway – And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by WM Gunn

  And The Walls Came Tumbling Down By W.M. Gunn   Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family Saga Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: September 15, 2026   Synopsis And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American […]

Review – The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya

  Synopsis In a city on the brink of revolution, science and passion offer their own strains of violence. Petrograd, 1916 After her aristocratic family’s fall from fortune, Mariya is desperate to survive – and to support her widowed mother and sisters. Matters alleviate when she finds work as an assistant to Dr. Nikolas Rodin, […]

New Release & Excerpt – When Paris Whispers by Marianne Bohr

  Synopsis Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person […]

Excerpt – Less the Horror than the Grace by Robert Owens Scott

  Synopsis A modern retelling of the Medusa myth set in a snake-handling church in Tennessee in the summer of 1920 as they vote to ratify women’s suffrage for the entire United States. It’s the summer of 1920 and the hollers of Tennessee are dripping with humidity and tension, the electricity in the air broken […]

Excerpt – An American Patriot: A Revolutionary War Soldier’s Fight for Liberty and Love by Keith Smith

  Synopsis Inspired by the true life of the author’s fifth great-grandfather, An American Patriot is a historically grounded novel that brings to life the story of Thomas Elwell, a Revolutionary War soldier whose legacy survived only through fragments of military records until years of genealogical research helped uncover his remarkable journey. The narrative unfolds […]

Review & New Release – The Man by Laura Sims

  Synopsis From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the a singular take on the domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her […]

Guest Post & New Release – Massawa by Pam Webber

  Synopsis For fans of novels featuring strong, smart female protagonists, the first in a series about the novice female American spies in North Africa and the Mediterranean that changed the tide of World War II. In 1942, during the height of World War II, Wild Bill Donovan, the director of the United States’ first […]