An immersive, satisfying read… Youmans’s ninth installment in her ambitious The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow Boy series is a carefully plotted, engrossing historical fantasy with plenty of twists and turns. Japan, 1877. The Satsuma Rebellion is contained, and the rebels… Read More ›
Historical fiction
The Sacred Band: Union by James MacTavish
Deeply absorbing and extravagantly imagined… Love, divided loyalties, and historical intrigue mark MacTavish’s fantastic latest in The Sacred Band Saga. A new empire is dawning in the United States of America. But the descendants of the Sacred Band of Thebes… Read More ›
The Uniform by G. Gruen
A crackling historical thriller that’s one to savor… Gruen brings to life the WWII era to life in this taut, atmospheric tale of a Jewish labor camp prisoner’s attempt to escape from captivity. Life is hard, but it is his… Read More ›
Them Days by Glenn P Booth
An exuberant, meticulously researched tale… Booth brings the early 1900s to life in this riveting story of family, love, determination, resilience, and survival. Born as the third consecutive girl in a poor Ukrainian homestead near Gimli is hard enough for… Read More ›
Tides of the Sovereign (The Lost Wells Trilogy Book 1) by Kate Gateley
A deeply poignant story, beautifully and compellingly told… Gateley’s debut installment in The Lost Wells Trilogy is a compelling, leisurely moving tale that grounds paranormal elements in a fascinating love story. Thirty-year-old magic Bearer Julia Harrison has always found herself… Read More ›
The Secret Life of Mary White: Darkness Into Light by Lenaye Marsten
A poignant exploration of the intricacies of personal growth, courage, and survival… Inspired by a true story from the 17th century Piscataqua region of New England, Marsten’s affecting debut follows a woman’s attempt to find refuge from her tragic reality…. Read More ›
A Shadow Melody by Brian Kaufman
Disquieting, visceral, and compulsively readable. The expert handling of narrative complexity and authentic period detail makes Kaufman’s latest a solid historical tale of supernatural suspense. When the brilliant Harry Browning began to work on a device to communicate with the… Read More ›
Streets of Tears by Larry J Hilton
Deftly penned and meticulously researched… An immersive historical tale. Hilton demonstrates his expert researching skills, shedding light on the Austrian mindset during the World War I while exploring the rise of the Nazi party and impending dictatorship under Hitler, and… Read More ›
A Time to Forget in East Berlin by CG FEWSTON
Vivid, nuanced, and poetic… Set in the 1970s in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Fewston’s second installment in the three part series explores the grave moral complexities of life through the tense encounters of John Lockwood, a former CIA… Read More ›
On the Precipice of the Labyrinth by Brian Snowden
Simply engrossing, filled with individual drama and historical intrigue… A young man from America crosses the Atlantic Ocean to Spain and months of personal upheavals in Snowden’s engrossing debut. 1930s. Charlottesville graduate William Benning, son of a Virginia professor who… Read More ›