The strength of the human spirit weaves a magical spell in The Puppet Maker’s Daughter, a mesmerizing work of historical fiction by Karla M. Jay. It’s March of 1944 and like most Hungarian Jews, nineteen-year-old Marika Tausig and her family don’t seem overly concerned that...

The Man in Cabin Number Five by Chrysteen Braun is a mystery romance novel. This is the tale of Annie Parker who after nine years of marriage discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. Annie packs her bags and leaves him. She ventures...

In a place where most people, even his friend Herman, preferred the cold comfort of death to life, David Korda’s survival instincts refused to succumb. When Leibig offered David’s services to Frau Hausler in G. Gruen’s The Uniform, David suddenly found himself on a two-hour...

Women in eighteenth-century Paris were subjected to a level of discrimination we’d never accept in the twenty-first century. Adelaide Labille-Guiard was no exception. She married young, but her passion wasn’t her husband; it was rather her painting. This created a volatile relationship, one that she...

The Glovemaker’s War, by Katherine Williams, relates a heartwarming yet heartbreaking story of three generations of women who will learn much about themselves as well as each other. Eve, Angela, and Georgina are mother, daughter, and granddaughter, each with their own very independent successful lives,...

The Apple King by Barbara Anne King is a historical fiction novel about an immigrant who had to make a tough decision just when things were going well for him. The story begins in 1880 when Nikola Markovich leaves Croatia for a better future in...

A. M. Linden's The Oath: The Druid Chronicles, Book One is a well-researched historical novel about the Druids and Saxons of early medieval times in Britain. The story is mainly set in the fictional Saxon kingdom of Derthwald in 788 AD. When King Theobold of...

The McCarron's Destiny: Charlie's Story is the sixth installment of The McCarron's Destiny series by Sharon K. Middleton. Born to a time-traveling family in 1781, twenty-one-year-old Charles Ranscome Hobbs has spent most of his life living in the 21st century. But when he finds himself...

The Montesoro Legacy is the third novel in the Brandon Brothers series by Stella Riley. Leo, the youngest Brandon brother, is slowly but surely making a name for himself as a portrait painter. While he is quite successful as an artist, his luck in the...

The Ghost Moth by Leslie Garland is a stirring novel about faith, temptation, and the nature of evil. Set in 1535, Master Adam Callow joins the Black Acres Monastery as a novice monk. He comes from a middle-class family and so has a relatively privileged...