Synopsis Traveling secretary Hattie Davish and her trusty typewriter alight on a small town in Illinois, where the Civil War may long be over, but certain mysteries refuse to be buried… Hattie Davish is delighted to be ably assisting her wealthy employer, Sir Arthur Windom-Greene, an English scholar who is fluent in Civil War history […]
Category: Historical
Tour Schedule A Thousand Perfect Things In this epic new work, the award-winning Kenyon, whose work has be compared to Larry Nivens and Stephen R. Donaldson, creates an alternate Earth in the 19th century. This Earth is ruled by two warring factions—scientific Anglica (England) and magical Bharata (India). Tori Harding, a Victorian woman, whose […]
Interview with author Alison Morton @alison_morton
February 16, 2014
I was able to sit down (figuratively) with Alison and ask her a few questions about writing and such. I’m happy to share the outcome of that discussion with you today. What inspired you to start writing/become a writer? I’ve written more or less all my life from my first play at age 7 […]
Spotlight: Inceptio and Perfiditas by Alison Morton @alison_morton
February 15, 2014
Please welcome author Alison Morton, author of the books Inceptio and Perfiditas. Synopsis New York, present day, alternate reality. Karen Brown, angry and frightened after surviving a kidnap attempt, has a harsh choice – being eliminated by government enforcer Jeffery Renschman or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother’s homeland in Europe. Founded sixteen […]
This month our book club read this book by Swedish author, Jonas Jonasson. Definitely an interesting book! Synopsis It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The […]
Blog Tour & Review: The Roses Underneath by C. F. Yetmen @CFYetmen
January 28, 2014
Genre & Subject: Fiction / Historical / Mystery Release Date: January 28, 2014 Publisher: Ypsilon & Co Press ISBNs: 9780615868363 (paper), 9780615883908 (Kindle) Pages: 411 Synopsis It is August 1945 in Wiesbaden, Germany. With the country in ruins, Anna Klein, displaced and separated […]
Interview with David Ebsworth @EbsworthDavid
January 18, 2014
Today I am welcoming author David Ebsworth to StoreyBook Reviews! He is the author of several books and his most recent book is The Assassin’s Mark which I spotlighted for you just the post down! He writes some fascinating historical fiction and I was quite excited when he said he would let me interview him […]
Spotlight: The Assassin’s Mark by David Ebsworth @EbsworthDavid
January 18, 2014
Concept A Christie-esque thriller set on a battlefield tour bus towards the end of the Spanish Civil War. The facts – Franco began running hugely popular tourist trips to his northern battlefields while the Spanish Civil War still raged. At the same time, foreign correspondent Kim Philby, already a spy for Moscow – and ironically […]
Tour Schedule A Bargained-For Bride by Marcia Lynn McClure (Novella) Synopsis “You’re the sweetest girl in Mourning Dove Creek, you know?” Jack mumbled as he paused in kissing Jilly a moment. Jilly smiled. “And you’re the handsomest man in Mourning Dove Creek, you know,” she flirted in return. Jack smiled. “I do know,” he said. […]
Spotlight: Colorado Promise by Charlene Whitman @charlwhitman
November 2, 2013
Colorado Promise Book One in the Front Range series – Historical Western Romance In this passionate sweet Western Historical Romance, author Charlene Whitman introduces Emma Bradshaw—a high-society young woman from New York, who is forced to move out to the untamed Front Range in Colorado and finds that true love can withstand all the […]