“The fog of war” is a phrase that keeps coming up in Khristmas in Kabul, Ian T. King’s brilliantly and intricately composed verbal concerto about the longest-running war in US history. His text presents us with the challenge of the greatest of literature at any...

After nearly eight decades, a woman who left her home and family behind returns to defend herself against the prejudice and bigotry that sent her away in the first place, in the touching historical novel The Bootlegger's Mistress by Marc Curtis Little. When she was...

In Feigned Madness by Tonya Mitchell, we meet Elizabeth Cochrane as an ambitious young woman trying to make a name for herself as a journalist, something very few women had been able to accomplish. She has high hopes and pushes her way into the “World”,...

The world of art during the Italian Renaissance was primarily a man’s world. Women had a set place in society and that didn’t include the artist’s studio – at least, not a respectable woman. When young Celeste Gabriele’s life turns from riches to poverty and...

The Girl Who Adored Rembrandt is the third book in the Out of Time Thriller Series by Belle Ami, and a book for readers who enjoy art, mystery, and mind-blowing action mixed with history. Angela Renatus is a psychic art historian who receives visions of...

Weeper by Greg Morgan is a historical novel that will haunt you. Set against the violent backdrop of the Civil War, there are mysterious customs and professions surrounding death that most have long forgotten or know nothing about. The author leads you into the shadow...

"At that moment, the moon breaks through the clouds and magnifies Rokurobei’s silhouette, standing at the handrail of the fortified wall. I freeze...Time skips a beat. Then I realize that the serpent’s neck is looking in the opposite direction; I sense he’s deep in thought,...

House of Seven is a satire on how life was in 1913 Mississippi. The central character, Beth DuBard, was a twenty-six-year-old spinster and writer, living with her parents and crotchety aunt, Miss Genie. An African-American couple, Trousdale and Rosa Linda Miller, lived in the same...

The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & a Tapper in New Amsterdam by Beth M Caruso is a historical fiction novel that follows the lives of Marie du Trieux and John Tinker in the colonies. Marie narrates the novel in the first person and in a...

Dance with the Devil by Ren'e Fedyna is the second entry in the Dance Series, a book that follows the lives of three women and their unavoidable destinies. Lola La Fontaine refuses to marry the man betrothed to her from birth and is disinherited by...