Category: Historical

New Release – The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke

  Synopsis A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on […]

Review – The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

  Synopsis It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty […]

Review – Pintsized Pioneers by Preston Lewis and Harriet Kocher Lewis

    PINTSIZED PIONEERS: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time By Preston Lewis & Harriet Kocher Lewis Young Adult / Nonfiction / History Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 184 Publication Date: September 24, 2024   Synopsis Children tread lightly through the pages of Old West history. Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at […]

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, […]