It is 12th-century England and the country is ruled by King Henry but always with the support of the barons and lords. Sometimes, though, these powerful men and the odd woman can seek too much power and challenge the Crown. In The Arrangement by Lu...

The Rebel Scribes is a fascinating historical novel depicting two Anglo-Saxon monks who are brothers in the time of King Aethelred of England. John Broughton tells the tale of Folcwin and his brother Aelfwynn, orphaned when Viking raiders attack their village and kill their parents....

In The Discontent of Mary Wenger, Paper Dolls Book 1, by Robert Tucker, the author has taken a subject and an era that is very difficult to analyze and has written about it with compassion, understanding, humor, and unending love shown in different ways. The...

The Final Crossing: A Tale of Self-Discovery and Adventure by Vince Santoro tells the story of Nenshi, a slave in ancient Egypt. The story begins as he builds up the courage to ask his master to free him. We see the struggle within as he...

The Witch of Bastanès by Dan Scannell is an outstanding story about Teresa Balterra and Father Michael, who shared a forbidden love in the midst of a hostile world. Teresa became an orphan when she was only ten and was raised by another family until...

The Rigel Affair Sequel is L M Hedrick’s follow-up to the excellent romance novel The Rigel Affair. The book continues the story of Charlie Kincaid and Mattie Blanc whose love affair becomes strained after the end of the war when Charlie’s work keeps him from...

The Light in the Labyrinth: The Last Days of Anne Boleyn by Wendy J. Dunn starts with Kate, who is unhappy with her life and angry because her brother, Henry is at Court. She has to stay with her mother and stepfather and her two...

In quickly trying to get her adoptive parents' house ready to sell after their deaths, Karen Johnson runs across an old trunk in the attic of the house. The trunk is full of old family historical memories Karen is eager to check out, and in...

The Coward of Grimsby by Eric Daniel Ryan is a historical fiction novella with settings in late 19th-century England and France that follows two men, a French fisherman called Georges and a British aristocrat named Braddock, and a once joint journey that ended with each...

The Seige by Linda Thackeray introduces Marshall Kris Jensen who prevents the lynching of the town’s African American healer, Sam Rainey. Together with bounty hunter Flynn Brenner, Kris is persuaded to stay and guard the perpetrators. However, the arrival of refugees from the outskirts alerts...