Young Joan Wright knows exactly what she wants: to escape with her friend Marcie from domestic drudgery in her poor village of Lancashire cotton workers, and to make a living using their healing skills. They have sworn to have nothing to do with men. But when roving, rascally, magnetic Sean McGilroy comes on a visit to his relatives, Joan finds herself attracted to him despite her plans and his bad reputation as a 'light o' love'. Appalled by the poverty all about, McGilroy joins Joan's father … [Read more...] about The Peterloo Affair by Lucinda Elliot
The Day to Eternity by Joanne Monte
A sweeping story filled with scenes of love, war, and great personal sacrifice, "The Day to Eternity" follows three characters who struggle to find their place, and one another, against tremendous odds. Set in the early 1950s against the backdrop of chaotic, war-torn Korea and and an enchanting but fragile postwar Japan, the reader is taken deep into the lives of characters whose responses to present adversity and the tortuous pull of the past crucially shape their destinies. Targeted Age … [Read more...] about The Day to Eternity by Joanne Monte
Beauty & Grace, A Historical Novel by Christina M. Abt
Beauty & Grace is an intensely moving work of historical fiction telling the stories of Teagan Cormick and Grace Reid, women from different worlds and different eras, brought together within the haunting confines of Midland’s Wood Haven asylum. Teagan leads readers through her early life in Queenstown, County Cork, through to her youthful immigration to America and her chilling, involuntary commitment to Wood Haven following The Crash of 1929. Grace arrives at Wood Haven in 1978, hired as … [Read more...] about Beauty & Grace, A Historical Novel by Christina M. Abt
FEATURED BOOK: The Devil Take Tomorrow by Gretchen Jeannette
RT Book Reviews. "Historical fiction lovers will easily become lost in this thrilling Revolutionary War adventure." Author Academy Awards Finalist 2018. Historical Fiction. George Washington has been marked for death. British agents embedded in the Continental Army wait only for the order to strike. Racing against time, rebel spy Ethan Matlock sets out to protect the one man who can save the Revolution. Without General Washington, the whole American enterprise might easily collapse, for no one … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: The Devil Take Tomorrow by Gretchen Jeannette
A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron
A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron THE MASTER PASSION is the story of the marriage of our brilliant first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. It begins with their whirlwind Revolutionary War courtship at Washington’s winter quarters. After the war, Hamilton engages in nation building. Like all mission-driven men, he is preoccupied, often absent, and not the best provider. Conflict is built into the marriage. It does not simply spring from … [Read more...] about A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron
Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander
Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander ***Winner 2017 National Indie Excellence Award***Indie B.R.A.G. Award Honoree***Winner Chill with a Book Readers' Award***Finalist 2017 Kindle Book Awards***Winner Readers' Favorite Book Award***An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part … [Read more...] about Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander
Bargain Book: Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election. And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson
FEATURED BOOK: Molly Lee by Andrew Joyce
Molly is about to set off on the adventure of a lifetime . . . of two lifetimes. It's 1861 and the Civil War has just started. Molly is an eighteen-year-old girl living on her family's farm in Virginia when two deserters from the Southern Cause enter her life. One of them--a twenty-four-year-old Huck Finn--ends up saving her virtue, if not her life. Molly is so enamored with Huck, she wants to run away with him. But Huck has other plans and is gone the next morning before she awakens. Thus … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Molly Lee by Andrew Joyce
Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, then the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, then a famous artist in New York, and finally America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill, in Paris. This novel about her life is an … [Read more...] about Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Mules; Masters & Mud by G J Griffiths
Mules; Masters & Mud by G J Griffiths WARNING! This book may contain NUTS! (Non-Uniform Text Speech) In other words speech in what some have called "Olde English Vernacular". It is spoken by characters in the book from the North, the Midlands and the South of England. There is a glossary at the end of the book to help if you can rise to the challenge. It adds shades of colour to this 19th century story that you may not be expecting. When Mrs Alexander wrote about “the rich man in his … [Read more...] about Mules; Masters & Mud by G J Griffiths
FEATURED BOOK: Wooden Nickels by Debra Dunbar
It's 1920's Baltimore. Prohibition. Those who sell and distribute liquor can become rich — or dead if the mob doesn't get their cut. The gangsters have taken over, and in organized crime the one weapon valued more than a Tommy gun is a mage. Welcome to the world of White Lightning. A moonshine runner. A mage for the mob. And more misfortune than a blow-down at the speakeasy. Hattie Malloy has two goals in life—get the hootch from warehouse to seller, and make sure no one finds out she can … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Wooden Nickels by Debra Dunbar
Where Eagles Dare Not Perch by Peter Bridgford
Zachary Webster was an innocent Maine farm boy before becoming a sharpshooter, but the violence of the Civil War battlefields has turned him into a natural killer. While home on his unit’s month-long furlough, he murders the man he believes has stolen his beloved. In doing so, he sets into motion three intensely dark journeys—his own as a soldier returning to a brutal and hopeless war; his sweetheart’s as she seeks absolution; and the brother of the murdered man, whose quest for revenge propels … [Read more...] about Where Eagles Dare Not Perch by Peter Bridgford
