The Merry Widow Murders by Melodie Campbell is a charming mystery set on the high seas. Lady Lucy Revelstroke embarks on a ship with her best friend and maid Elfreda in tow. Lucy has reinvented herself and is proud of the woman she is today...

In February 1806, Esme Conrad and her aunt Hannah board the Britannia on a mission. Esme’s family owns a shipping fleet, and the Britannia faces consistent sabotage and vandalism. Headed for French Canada, Esme is on board to investigate. However, Lord Strachan, aka Landon, her...

The Soul Machines is a work of fiction in the history, mystery, family saga, and interpersonal subgenres. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Alexandru Czimbor. Set in Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s,...

Tainted Harvest by E. Denise Billups is the first book in the Simone Doucet series. Simone Doucet is a travel writer searching for a purpose in her life. A new assignment sees her heading off to Natchez, Mississippi, to the Magnolia Sunrise bed and breakfast....

Time Stealers: Time Keepers Chronicles 1 by P. Clauss is an intriguing novel about a group of people who call themselves the Time Keepers. They have the gift of being able to see the time wraiths, the name they give to beings that live in...

The aftermath of the bubonic plague, dubbed the great pestilence, was a difficult time for everyone. It was especially tough for Appel and Efi, who lost their families to the plague. Lacking any means to feed her drunk husband and twelve children, Gritta faced a...

Bulwer-Lytton’s classic opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night,” has met with considerable disdain over the years, but, in reality, beginning a story with a horrific storm is a good way to set the scene and engage readers. Set the scene in two...

The year is 1863, and Britain is at loggerheads with France over the construction of the Suez Canal. Yet someone is infuriating the English further by selling their naval secrets to the French. All efforts to uncover the identity of this person proved abortive -...

The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe is a slow-burn gothic historical novel set in a secluded Yorkshire boarding school. After having grown up in relative comfort, Susan Mottram finds herself thrust into poverty upon her father's death. With her mother and sister to...

Ari finds a note with an address in the pocket of an authentic tweed swing coat she recently purchased. She visits this address but only finds a burned-out building with a locked underground cellar. The lock is brand new, meaning someone wants to protect the...