The Northmen have been ravaging villages along the coast and inland, and now the calm in Bayeux, Neustria, the Kingdom of the West Franks, is about to change. It is Easter Sunday, April 12th, AD 890, and many Bayeux residents are in church when the...

Kelly Miller's historical novel Accusing Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation is a well-crafted intriguing romance and murder mystery. Set in the Regency era, the story draws inspiration from Jane Austen. The principal characters are Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourn and Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley....

The message from Queen Puduhepa of Hatti to the queen of the two kingdoms of Kemet (Egypt), Nefertari, confirmed a possibility that Queen Nefertari dreaded. A Hittite king had been dethroned and was bound for Egypt to seek asylum. In their message to Queen Nefertari,...

Astrid Virtanen visited Martha in Clayton as part of her journey to see the world before making one final decision. She was Martha’s cousin, a housekeeper to the Fiskares who owned a hotel on the island. The firstborn Fiskare, Kennet, fell in love with Astrid...

In Apocrypha by Richard Caldwell, a road construction crew discovers the body of a man crucified by the Romans. Speculation has it that it is the body of Yehoshua, the man Christians call Jesus. Archaeologists take the bones for genetic testing to establish their identity....

A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen is a historical fiction tale set over the course of a week in the early 19th century, as narrated by a fourteen-year-old girl named Clara Hargraves. She lives in a small town in New Hampshire with her father,...

The Fufidii were affluent people without rank, and only marriage to the right family could rectify it. Helvia, the matriarch, had already set her sights on a senator’s son for her daughter, Fufidia. However, a chance meeting between Fufidia and the noble Lucius changed the...

Another Way Over by John J. Michalik is the tale of a Slovak immigrant who travels to America on the brink of World War I in search of a better life. Inspired by Michalik's paternal grandfather's life story, the book follows Jan Brozek, son of...

The year is 1508. Anne of Brittany and King Louis XII of France have been married for a nearly a decade but still have no son. Numerous pregnancies and miscarriages have taken their toll, and Anne is no longer young. But her failure to produce...

At the Castle of Dreams is the fifth book in A Country Girl Empress series by A. Piper Burgi. Crown Prince Rudolph is found dead at his hunting lodge along with his mistress. Devastated and grief-stricken, Sisi and Franz have no idea what really happened....