Historical Fiction | Fiction
Oct.10.2008
Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, Oliver Chin creates a compelling blend of fact and fiction where a high school class (based in the San Francisco Bay area) grapples with the aftershocks of the catastrophe of 9/11.
But their 11th-grade US history teacher...
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Oct.04.2008
In My Lady Mischief, Lady Thea must rethink her plans when Lord Hartingfield arrives on the scene in this Regency England romp featuring a madcap cast of secondary characters, including an adorable pig named Egbert.
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Sep.18.2008
Born in seventh century Arabia and married at age nine, A'isha bint Abi Bakr would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path Aisha confronted making the transition from a girl whose...
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Sep.17.2008
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Kate Ransom is plunged into a battle of her own making. Pregnant and abandoned by the man who swore to marry her, Kate must find a way to deal with the repercussions of her own actions...and the actions of those closest to her. Can she build a new life on the...
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Sep.17.2008
Navy Lieutenant Matty Graves is still recovering from his ordeal during the slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue when he is ordered to Washington to answer questions about the death of his former captain. On home soil he must deal with the mystery and shame surrounding his birth,...
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Sep.17.2008
When Matty Graves, acting lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. Navy, agrees to become a spy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, he plunges headlong into a brutal world of betrayal and double-cross beyond anything he’s ever known. At first the bloody civil war between former slaves and their...
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Sep.17.2008
This first book in the series introduces Matty Graves, midshipman in the early years of the United States Navy. In 1799, the young United States faces off against its former ally, France, in an undeclared naval conflict in the Caribbean. Matty is caught up in escalating violence as he serves...
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Sep.02.2008
It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by...
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Sep.01.2008
INSIDE FRONT COVER FLAP
As Pocahontas was to Jamestown and Sacajawea was to the Lewis and Clark expedition, so was Mary Musgrove to the burgeoning Georgia colony.
Born “Coosaponakeesa” to a Creek mother and an English father, she skillfully straddled two worlds: her Indian...
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Aug.28.2008
Born into slavery in 1831 on Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island, Neptune became the childhood friend and servant of plantation heir Henry Lord King. Their devoted friendship, which finally evolved into a shared struggle to survive on the Civil War battlefields, is an inspiring example of how...
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