Historical Fiction | Fiction
Feb.24.2011
A beautifully told and poignant novel about a passionate and lovely child and her despairing love for a young Italian nobleman. The three figures of the triangle--daughter, mother, lover--haunt one with their pain and their ecstasy long after the reading of the book is done.
(This is the original...
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Feb.23.2011
The Curse-Maker is the sequel to he award-winning Nox Dormienda, the first book of the Roman noir series created by Kelli Stanley (City of Dragons). Wedding impeccably researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard-boiled writers, The Curse-Maker is a thrilling and suspenseful...
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Feb.16.2011
A Woman's Way is a novel based on the life story of the 19th century French Feminist, Maria Deraismes. Sofia Diana Gabel blends historical fact with fiction as she details Maria Deraismes' struggle against misogynistic men and the French government during the turbulent 1870s in Paris. Maria gets...
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Jan.03.2011
"The best kind of historical mystery: good history, good mystery, all wrapped up in a voice so authentic you feel it has come out of the past to whisper in your ear." -- Lee Child, author of Worth Dying For
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub...
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Jan.01.2011
Dragons in the skies of Regency England!
Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel.
Young and naive Catherine Morland is constantly surrounded by angels only she alone can see....
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Dec.27.2010
“The Red Tent” meets “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
In 1911, in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem under the backward Ottoman rule, a young woman sets out to challenge God.
The feisty Esther’s life-long struggle between her passions and her strict society’s religious dictates sends her to secretly...
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Dec.14.2010
In 1402, the Christian city of Constantinople is under attack by a Muslim army. With surrender in the wind, the spoils are to be the key to the city and the 14-year-old Princess Theodota. In the twists and turns of historical fact, Geoffrey Fox delivers A Gift for the Sultan, a dramatic, fact-...
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Dec.08.2010
Tom Gregory is one of the "ninety-day-wonder" lieutenants in WWII. A knee injury keeps him state-side, where he becomes the commanding officer of an Italian prisoner of war camp in a tiny Oklahoma town. Tom falls in love with WAC lieutenant Connie Ballard and together they try to juggle...
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Dec.08.2010
At first Anya Rosen's life in Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her hero, Amelia Earhart. Then Anya finds a baby, a newborn abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes...
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