Category: Historical

New Release & Interview – Soldier’s Joy by M.F. Jones

  Synopsis Avery Gowan is barely home from Iraq when a ghost appears to him—one that looks disturbingly like him. The apparition says that Jessie Gibbs, a woman he’s just met, can help him escape the guilt of the mission that killed three of his friends and maimed another. A few days earlier, at a […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Nurse at Baker Hospital by Jocelyn Cullity

  Synopsis A new nurse at America’s famous cancer-cure hospital becomes caught in one of the Ozarks’ greatest scams in this mystery based on a true story set in 1939. After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dark Messiah by Sara Z. Carson

  Synopsis A riveting debut novel telling the story of a teenage girl and her mother caught in the web of a sinister cult leader whose optimistic vision of hope descends into apocalyptic horror in the jungles of South America. In 1975 San Francisco, 15-year-old Nell’s world has been ripped apart by her younger sister’s […]

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 […]