Category: Historical

Excerpt – The Big Dry by Patrick Dearen

  Synopsis In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t […]

Time Travel Spotlight – The Winding Road by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis Southeast Pennsylvania, November 1777. For Noah and Jake Maclean, the saga gets real. One year after the brothers entered a time portal and traded the computer age for the colonial age, they rush headlong into the American Revolution. Noah, 23, rides off to war. Against the wishes of his fiancée, Abigail Ward, he […]

New Release & Excerpt – Unspoken by Jann Alexander

  Synopsis A farm devastated. A dream destroyed. A family scattered. And one Texas girl determined to salvage the wreckage. Ruby Lee Becker can’t breathe. It’s 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. […]

Historical Spotlight & Giveaway – Too Much the Lion by Preston Lewis

  TOO MUCH THE LION: A Novel of the Battle of Franklin By PRESTON LEWIS   Historical Fiction / Civil War Fiction Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 395 Publication Date: May 13, 2025     Synopsis In the waning months of the American Civil War, a delusional Confederate commander makes a desperate attempt to change the […]

Excerpt – Smoke on the Wind by Kelli Estes

  Synopsis In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. […]

Review – The Ruins in Which We Bleed by Steve N. Lee

  Synopsis A story of courage and a fight for survival like none you have ever read. Guaranteed! Inspired by a previously untold true story. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, 13-year-old Helena is imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto, a squalid hellhole rife with disease and starvation. Yet, although the Nazis have destroyed her home, […]

Review – Yankeeland by Lacy Fewer

  Synopsis Fiercely independent and passionate, Brigid feels hindered by her family and the strict society of her small Irish town in the early 1900s. Brigid and her cousin Molly, who is more like a sister, dream of a new life in the seemingly unlimited land of opportunity they call Yankeeland—America. Brigid gets her chance […]

Review – Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

  Synopsis There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960s New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change. Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first, she needs to take the next step […]

Nonfiction Spotlight – The Bridge by Alan Ramias

  There are stories of war that shout, and there are those that whisper truths we can’t ignore. The Bridge is one of those rare novels that quietly demands to be heard.   Synopsis A War That Won’t Let Go. A Memory That Can’t Be Buried. A Story That Refuses to Fade. In The Bridge, Alan Ramias fuses […]

New Release – The Baker of Lost Memories by Shirley Russak Wachtel

  Synopsis From the author of A Castle in Brooklyn comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss. Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland prior […]