Mary Read: Sailor, Soldier, Pirate
Cherie Pugh
Historical Fiction
"Mary Read: Sailor, Soldier, Pirate" by Australian author Cherie Pugh is a carefully researched, fast-paced historical novel that will leave you with the stink of gunpowder in your nostrils and the roll of the open ocean under your feet! The life of the infamous woman pirate Mary Read is a rolli...

Mycroft Up Against It
Sam Bonnamy
Historical Fiction
Once again Anna and Mycroft Holmes tear through London in hansom cabs as they pursue three further adventures set in the eighteen-eighties. Mycroft puffs and pants his way through his cases, applying not only his keen mind but also, in one case, the precepts of the Kama Sutra, while Anna hobnobs wi...

Strings
Sheryle Criswell
Historical Fiction
This is fifteen-year-old Hanna Berkenski's journey from her family's tiny apartment in the Warsaw Ghetto, through the awful night she spends in a cattle-car with her mother and sister, to her three years as a violinist in the welcoming orchestra at Auschwitz. The real horror begins as the train ...

The Severan Prophecies
David Chacko
Historical Fiction
When the Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated, his family gave the task of safeguarding their dynasty to the questor Marcellus Decimus, the narrator of this story. How he led a young boy named Varius in a race against death that culminated in the restoration of the dynasty is one of the more rem...

The Painted Lady
Charles Sutton
Historical Fiction
Roman historians in their accounts about the Celtic Queen, Boadicea, emphasized only her ultimate failure in battle, and the atrocities that she is alleged to have committed. This exciting tale gives Queen Boadicea a place of birth, a private life, skeletons in her cupboard, romance and courage....

Wilhelmina
Daphne Saxby Taylor
Historical Fiction
"I shall look forward with delight to working with you," stated the great Frederick Chopin, when Wilhelmina played for him. The Grand Duchess had offered her patronage. Was she set for an illustrious career as a concert pianist? But pressures brought to bear by the social and political state o...

The Silver Vortex
Moyra Caldecott
Historical Fiction
A sequel to the "Guardians of the Tall Stones" series. From beyond time and space they come to walk the earth once more - the Guardians of the Tall Stones, the Lords of the Sun... Deva is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of the High Priest of the greatest of the mighty stone circles. She seeks ...

Spring Rain on the Wind
O'Donnelly, Kristina
Historical Fiction
Four generations of women are hunted by an English wizard and an Indian Shaman. Now, as American settlers threaten the Cherokee Nation, one woman, half white and half Native American, must find a path between civilizations--and simultaneously confront evil magic. Exciting historical action with a...

Thick As Thieves
Joan Smith/Jennie Gallant
Historical Fiction
Eve Denver encountered Richard Dalton when she was fleeing an irate pawnbroker. Unsuspicious of Mr. Dalton’s offer to secure a summer house in Brighton, and conscious of his ability to introduce her to the polite world, she took her valuables with her. Only to find that Dalton was using her as bait...

The Lost Duchess of Greyden Castle
Nina Coombs Pykare
Historical Fiction
Vanessa never expected that a year after her sister Caroline’s violent death, Richard, Duke of Greyden would ask her to marry him. Her dream became a nightmare when she learned that Richard had an identical twin who hated him, a mother who shunned Vanessa, and a sister who might be certifiably mad....

Scandal's Daughter
Carola Dunn
Historical Fiction
Stranded in Istanbul when her scandalous mother dies, all Cordelia wants is to go home to England and lead a respectable life. Yet she finds herself setting off with James Preston, a rogue sought by the Turkish authorities. Their travels over the mountains and over the waves are dogged by mishap, di...

Lord Nick's Folly
Emily Hendrickson
Historical Fiction
Nympha Herbert, a rector’s daughter, journeys to visit her wealthy great aunt, and finds herself sharing a coach with Lord Nicholas Stanhope. He may be aggravating, but he’s also quite dashing. Lord Nick is constructing a golf course on his property, which is surely folly, but it’s kept him from hu...

French Leave
Maggie MacKeever
Historical Fiction
Barbary Dennison is through with men. First her scoundrel of a husband ran off with an opera dancer. Then her most recent admirer jilted her for an heiress. She flees to the safety of Paris, and her lookalike cousin Mab. Alas, Mab has troubles of her own, not least among them the handsome Duc she’s ...

The Tudor Signet
Carola Dunn
Historical Fiction
Mariette Bertrand held up Lord Malcolm's carriage on the Devon moors to retrieve the signet ring, a family heirloom, that her cousin lost at cards. When she was injured in the attempt, Lord Malcolm took her to his sister's house. Love blossomed, but could it survive if he arrested her cousin as a Fr...

A Prudent Match
Laura Matthews
Historical Fiction
Prudence Stockworth inherited a considerable sum from her fiancé, and agreed to marry Baron Ledbetter knowing that he was in need of that money for his estate. But Prudence had known Ledbetter during her London season, and had been frightened by his obviously passionate nature. Now she had to learn ...