Historical Fiction | Fiction
Feb.02.2012
Driven by cataclysmic world events, the story encompasses the lives of three generations of women.
In Book One Paulina, the privileged daughter of aristocratic parents, reluctantly follows her driven businessman husband to America in 1929....
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Jan.31.2012
"A dream, after all, needn't be fueled by particulars, only by desire."
So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in Crestmont, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s.
Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing...
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Jan.28.2012
Fournier was being very naughty and it was important that the Brits got to him before the Americans, who had the evidence to blackmail him all the way to the Ninth Circle of Hell, where traitors were frozen in ice for all eternity.
"Wilson's smart, finely written sequel to The Envoy mines an...
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Jan.28.2012
From the Independent:
Such was the missile gap in the early Sixties that if the US had attacked the Soviet Union the only Soviet response would have been a strike against Western Europe. It made sense for MI6, then, to trick the US into thinking that the Soviets were more advanced than...
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Jan.23.2012
The central figure of Hero on Three Continents is Sir Henry Brown, born 1901, into a prominent Anglo-Jewish family. Henry's two elder brothers were killed in action on the Western Front during World War I, an experience that had an immeasurable impact on young Henry.
After Leaving Elton in 1919...
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Jan.20.2012
From the Salem Witch trials through the Nineteenth Century and beyond, Annabel Horton is pursued by the devil’s disciple, Urban Grandier, the demonic priest from the incident at Loudon. She must take the bodies of those that the devil favors to protect her family. She must uncover the motive...
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Dec.30.2011
He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested from blowing up the ex-governor of Idaho, a murder which lead to one of the most celebrated trials of the period. The men questioning him wan t...
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Dec.14.2011
Before World War II, two German boys enjoy playing piano, and one visits twice each week to teach the other. When the Nazis seize power, the lessons must end—one of the boys is Jewish.
Leo Bergner, the Jewish pupil, escapes Germany while his piano teacher, Bruno Franzmann, is called to serve the...
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Dec.13.2011
“Mary Mackey gives her readers yet another woman warrior, this one a fighter in the Civil War. We thrill to the story of Carrie Vinton as she courageously takes the side of freedom over slavery” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior
With an “inventive imagination and crisp style...
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Nov.29.2011
In 1926, and keeping with the Lattimer tradition, thirteen year old David is gifted to hunt the Christmas Goose. He sets off with his ten year old sister Rose, reminded by his Father--be back by sundown.
But when David and Rose stumble between a Mother Bear and her cubs, they escape her rage...
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