Category: Historical

Guest Review & Giveaway – What They Said About Luisa by Erika Rummel

    Synopsis An enchanting telling of the complex and fascinating life of real-life Luisa Abrego of Seville, who forges a new life after freedom from slavery in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the far-reaching Spanish Inquisition. Luisa Abrego, a slave in Seville, is set free upon her master’s death and marries a white […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Ashes on the Wind by Brandy Purdy

    Ashes on the Wind: The Love Story Behind The Crime of the Century Genre: Historical Fiction, True-Crime Inspired Setting – Chicago, Illinois 1920 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 15, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 573 pages Synopsis Nathan “Babe” Leopold was a socially awkward genius who used arrogance as a shield. […]

New Release – The Haunting of Moscow House by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

  Synopsis In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous—and deadly—to remember. It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, […]

Review – Hidden in Her Heart by Thomas Dellenbusch

  Synopsis Summer of 1963 in Bavaria: Thoughtful and literary mobbing drama about an attractive stranger with a secret past. Translated Version from the popular German book series of Movie-Length-Stories: A young, attractive single mother moves into a small Lower Bavarian village in the Summer of 1963. She is not looking for a job, nor […]

New Release – My Salty Mary

  Synopsis Don’t call this mermaid “little”—call her “captain,” unless you want to walk the plank. Mary is in love with the so-called prince of Charles Town, except he doesn’t love her back. Which is inconvenient. Since she’s a mermaid, being brokenhearted means she’ll—poof!—turn into sea-foam. But instead, Mary finds herself pulled out of the […]

Excerpt & Guest Review – Sunny Gale by Jamie Lisa Forbes

  Synopsis When Hannah Brandt, who comes from a hardscrabble background in Ohio and Nebraska, first gets to ride a horse in 1895 at the age of 14, she realizes that there is no going back. . . Her destiny is to be a rodeo star and break new ground as a female bronco rider. […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Murder in Vancouver 1886 by Marion Crook

    Murder in Vancouver 1886 Historical Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Vancouver, BC, Canada Publisher ‏ : ‎ Epicenter Press (WA) (May 14, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages Synopsis Vancouver, 1886, a bustling city with a growing population and tantalizing opportunities. Some of those opportunities are illegal. When Amy MacDonald, […]

Review – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip by Gail Ward Olmsted

  Synopsis In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that, at the age of 77, she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone. Over the next six days, […]

Review – Duties and Dreams by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis From the author of THE FOUNTAIN and ANNIE’S APPLE comes a story that spans decades of conflict and change. As World War I rages in Europe, the Carpenters and the Lees make a home in Southern California. Bill and Cassie add to their family. Andy and Annie start one of their own. Paul, […]

New Release – A Lethal Lady by Nekesa Afia

  Synopsis Louise Lloyd’s time away in Paris is everything she was hoping it would be until a shocking murder turns her entire world upside down. Louise Lloyd is finally living the quiet life she’d longed for, working in a parfumerie by day and spending time with her new friends every night at the Aquarius […]