Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard is a blend of historical fiction and science fiction. Casey Clemens, a 39-year-old actress, seems to have it all: a solid career, a famous (but also married) boyfriend, and a life in Hollywood. The day before she turns 40,...

Terror Holiday by Simon Guest is a thrilling short story about a family on holiday in extreme circumstances. Caught in a military coup, Simon Tomkins and his family experience a holiday from hell. In the past, they have had delightful holidays on the Turkish coast....

How to Seduce a Queen by Stella Marie Alden is the story of Lady Fay and Nicholas Bruce. Lady Fay is a queen without her true crown, surrounded by rumors and people that just want to control her even though she wants something different out...

Dead Fish Jumping on the Road is a hard-boiled detective mystery novel written by W.L. Liberman. Joe Simpson had worked for the Applewood Gazette for three years now, but Norma Jennings's drowned body was the first death the twenty-six-year-old reporter had covered. She had been...

It's a bold task to take on writing a 400-page plus book based on the life of an obscure English midwife who lived in the 1600s. But that is the challenge Annelisa Christensen gave herself with The Popish Midwife, after studying court transcripts about the...

Agrippa’s Wake by Ralph Jackman is an entertaining read about prominent people and events in the history of Rome. Writing in the first person is often very tricky, yet Mr. Jackman does an amazing job of drawing his readers in with his prose. He brings...

A story that begins with a man waking in the middle of the night, feeling cold and uneasy, to find an ugly woman lurking in his room and telling him she’d waited many years to face a certain Mr. Hardwycke is a good promise for...

Leanna Englert’s historical fictional work, Compromise with Sin: A Novel, is both informational and engaging from the first page to the last. Beginning with the last decade of the nineteenth century through the next twenty years, and set in Riverbend, Nebraska, the characters embody the...

Mission Song: Chenoa's Story, Book 2 from the Ladies of Mischief series is a lovely historical fiction by Karen Dean Benson. Impetuous twelve-year-old Chenoa Sandoval’s adopted father, Padre Tomas, dies and she reluctantly goes to live with Don Sebastian at his ranch in Monterey. Her...

Never At Peace by MJ Neary is a gripping historical novel about some of the key activists of the Easter Rising at the beginning of the 20th century. The Easter Rising was an armed uprising in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916. The insurgents'...