Category: Historical

Guest Post & Giveaway – Zachary by Shirley Miller Kamada

  Synopsis Zachary Whitlock knows sheep. He knows farming and knows what it’s like to have his best friend forced into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. What he does not know much about is goats and traveling by sea on cargo ships, yet he makes a decision to go with a group of volunteers […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – One Foot in the Ether by Kayleigh Kavanagh

    Synopsis Demdike and Chattox, famed witches of Pendle Forest, might be dead, but they’re not gone. Bound to their bloodline, they’ve spent the past two and a half centuries watching over their descendants, waiting for when they’ll be needed. When 14 year old Yana comes into her psychic abilities and inherits the ‘eyes […]

Review – The Devil Take the Blues by Ariel Slick

  Synopsis During the 1920s, Beatrice Corbin just wants to keep her general store afloat and keep an eye on her younger, newly married sister, Agnes, in the small town of Azoma, Louisiana. Until, she is approached by the Devil, Frank Charbonneau, and learns that her sister will be murdered. At first, she doesn’t believe […]

Review – These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

  Synopsis From the “razor-sharp and outrageously funny” (Taylor Jenkins Reid) mind of Mia McKenzie comes a vibrant novel exploring how one weekend can change your whole life. Dear Lord, please forgive me for the sins I’ve committed. And for the one I’m still planning to commit tomorrow. Amen. Where do you get an abortion […]

Excerpt & New Release – Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski

  Synopsis Venice, 1710 Poinsettia Girl is based on the story of Agata de la Pieta, an orphan musician of the Ospedale de la Pieta. Ten-year-old Agata’s world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known […]

Review – Orphans of the Living by Kathy Watson

  Synopsis A debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck, Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. In the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the […]

New Release & Excerpt – Stone of Faith by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis The heart’s most extraordinary battle is the one fought for love. Haunted by a family legacy that threads magic through the ages, Captain Ewan MacDougall and his ghostly crew sail between worlds—freeing enslaved people. A worthy goal, yet he longs for what eludes him—true love. When he crosses paths with a legendary siren […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Stones River by M.F. Jones

    Synopsis When Jessie Gibbs meets Lemuel Sanders, she thinks she has finally found her ideal man—until she discovers that he is the ghost of a Civil War soldier. For 144 years, Lem has kept vigil at his unmarked battlefield grave, seeking someone to complete a personal mission so he can go to his […]

Q&A with Simon Tolkein, author of The Room of Lost Steps

  Synopsis An American boy with impossible dreams is thrust into the cauldron of the Spanish Civil War in an arresting and thrilling historical coming-of-age epic by the author of The Palace at the End of the Sea. Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected […]

Review & Giveaway – Queen of Cotton by Laurie Moore-Moore

  QUEEN OF COTTON By Laurie Moore-Moore   Historical Fiction Publisher: Goat Mountain Press Publication Date: September 9, 2025     Synopsis 1861: The Civil War is raging. The men have gone to fight, leaving the women behind to cope.  Cotton is the lifeblood of the South. Sara, a young wife, risks her life and […]