Category: Historical Fiction
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1855 Blurb: When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of…
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Fawkes by Nadine Brandes: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2018 Blurb: Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father’s plot to assassinate the king of England. Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys…
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If I Go by Emily Ann: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Beneath the sprawling limbs of southern oaks, where Spanish moss drapes like lace and the scent of salt lingers in the air, Eleanor Davis and Fred Jackson spend their childhood in the heart of 19th century Charleston, South Carolina. Their friendship is as constant as…
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Of Fossils and Follies by Sienna Peake: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: Ever since she was a young girl studying geology with her father, Opal Martin has longed for the chance to visit Lyme Regis and dig for discoveries of her own. When a high-stakes contest partners her with the stiff and grumpy Mr. Harris, Opal hardly…
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A Tartan Love by Nichole Van: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: Lady Isla Kinsey knows that the animosity between her family, the Dukedom of Grayburn, and their distant kinsmen, the Earldom of Northcairn, is the stuff of legends—six generations of duels fought, ladies ruined, and gentlemen betrayed. Therefore, falling in love with a son of the…
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The Songs of a Warrior by Katy Morgan: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2023 Blurb: Danae Collins’ stable, quiet life as an elementary school librarian is upended when she becomes the guardian for one of her students in foster care. She carefully plans for every contingency on the road to permanent adoption—every contingency except crossing paths with a famous baseball player. Griffin…
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When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2022 Blurb: The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they’re living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their…
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2011 Blurb: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto…
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Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2021 Blurb: Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer’s apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. But when plague sweeps over the land, leaving countless dead and devastating the kingdom, even Cas’ title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and…
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A Bachelor’s Lessons in Love by Sally Britton: Content Guide
Publication Date: Apr 2025 Blurb: Former military officer Edward Halstead never imagined his quiet bachelor existence would be upended by the unexpected guardianship of a spirited young lady. When his late comrade’s daughter, Daphne Price, is placed in his care, Edward is faced with a challenge unlike any battlefield he…
