Ensign Qing was a young naval officer on the treasure fleet of the Chinese Imperial, Admiral Zheng. He embarked with other officers on many voyages from Africa to the Middle East and beyond. Qing was smart and had a knack for investigating and solving mysteries,...

The Legend of See Bird: Kiamichi is the third part of a western trilogy by Karl L. Stewart. Based on the real life of a Choctaw cowboy who adopted the author’s grandmother as a young girl when he married her mother, it is set mostly...

Americans in France. Not so unusual, or is it? Tour of Duty by William H. Coles is set in 1960s Europe in the Cold War era during a nuclear attack threat. Physician Miles Ballard is serving in the Air Force at US Air Station, Châteauroux,...

The Courier's Wife: Book One Secrets of the Blue and Gray by Vanessa Lind is a historical novel that unravels in 1862 at the height of the American Civil War. Escaping from a privileged life in Indiana, Hattie Logan is determined to make a difference...

The Viscount Without Virtue by Katherine Grant is a story of a community ahead of its time. In a world of slavery and exploitation, the people of Northfield are living by the principle of fair work and fair pay. Everything is either earned or sold...

The Seven Deaths of Vlad, Prince of Wallachia by Christian Weber is an exciting action-filled horror story including one of the most famous monsters in literary history. Christian starts off his saga by introducing us to Jack O’ Rourke, a former cavalryman recounting a dark...

The Beamy Courage of Gerta Scholler by Gillespie Lamb tells the story of an eight-year-old orphan girl with two similar given names. Gerda Gerta Scholler became an orphan when she was four, and since then she has been living at Sisters of Mercy Orphanage, enjoying...

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 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...

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...