Category: Historical Fiction
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Heart of Snow by Rachel Grow Law: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Synopsis: To be chosen as a lady-in-waiting for Queen Mary is more than just an honor for Countess it’s a matter of life and death. After her brother is captured on the battlefield, Margaretha hopes the queen’s favor will allow her entry into circles of the…
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The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2010 Synopsis: Rose has been appointed as a healer’s apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter’s daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the…
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The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2024 Synopsis: Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and…
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The Queen’s Cook by Tessa Afshar: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Synopsis: In the heart of ancient Persia, the empire’s Jewish citizens face an ominous edict that threatens their very existence. Roxannah, the daughter of a once-privileged but now impoverished Persian lord, is devastated by the news. Her father sees this edict as a stroke of good…
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Lady Anna’s Favor by Karen Tuft: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Synopsis: Each year on the center island, one girl is chosen to be the next Mortal Lady Anna Clifton has arrived in London with a purpose known only to a few. Her soldier brother has been reported wounded and missing in France, and if he is…
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Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2021 Synopsis: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman who desires a law career must be in want of a case. So when sixteen year old Lizzie Bennet hears about a scandalous society murder, she sees an opportunity to prove herself as a solicitor…
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The Letter Tree by Rachel Fordham: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: Mere words can’t end their families’ feud, but the Campbell heir and the Bradshaw heiress plan to write a future together. Buffalo, NY, 1924 Laura Bradshaw adores stories with happily ever afters. But since her mother died seven years ago, the Bradshaw Shoe Company heiress…
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The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire Van Ryn: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2023 Synopsis: Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home resident with dementia and a doll cradled lovingly in her arms. Bit by bit, Nora reveals details about her younger life as a spirited teenage girl living beneath…
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Across the Ages by Gabrielle Meyer: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Synopsis: Caroline holds a deep secret. Existing in 1727 and 1927 simultaneously, each night she goes to sleep in one life and wakes up in the other. Searching for answers to her unique existence, Caroline stumbles upon a letter from her mother that hints at her…
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Across the Star-Kissed Sea by Arlem Hawks: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Mediterranean Sea, 1811. May Byam grew up following her father to his work at the ropemaking factory and listening to her uncle’s tales of life aboard a Royal Navy ship. After tragedy and scandal shatter her family, May is desperate to escape the shame that…
