Category: Historical Fiction
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Before the King by Heather Kaufman: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Synopsis: Joanna’s wealthy family aspires to Herod’s inner circle, but when her father’s esteemed position in the Sepphoris Sanhedrin is threatened, her family resorts to harboring a dark secret. As Joanna navigates the complexities of aristocratic life and an arranged marriage, she is caught between loyalty…
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As Sure As The Sea by Jamie Ogle: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Synopsis: Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310. In the shadow of Emperor Diocletian’s anti-Christian edicts, Demitria makes a meager living harvesting coral and pearls for a merchant who turns a blind eye to her faith. By night, Demi goes upriver with her brother, Theseus, to obtain provisions…
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The Body in the Garden by Katherine Schellman: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: April 2020 Synopsis: London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She’s no stranger to the glittering world of London’s upper crust. At a ball thrown by…
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2019 Synopsis: In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds…
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The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Synopsis: In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow,…
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: July 1960 Synopsis: One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the…
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The Burning of Rosemont Abbey by Naomi Stephens: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: 1956: In the quiet village of Wilbeth Green, the smoldering ruins of Rosemont Abbey set the residents’ tongues wagging, and everyone is quick to accuse troublemaker Paul Everly of being the arsonist. Paul has vanished without a trace, leaving only his twin sister, Louisa, certain…
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Land of Hills and Valleys by Elisabeth Grace Foley: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2020 Synopsis: Lena Campbell never knew her grandfather—but she always dreamed of visiting Wyoming, where her mother was born and raised. When she receives word that her grandfather is dead and his Wyoming ranch belongs to her, she jumps at the chance. Only later does she learn…
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A Noble Companion by Rachel Kovaciny
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Synopsis: Madelena isn’t in love with her friend Armando, but his marriage proposal offers the security she needs. She sympathizes with him—his father insists Armando must either find a bride or join the army. Armando would rather become a husband than a soldier, but his ugly…
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Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1986 Synopsis: Sacagawea, a Shoshone Indian, guided and interpreted for explorers Lewis and Clark as they traveled up the Mississippi, but she had adventures long before that one, like the time she was captured by the Minnetarees, and taken away from her family and everything that she…