The year was 1944 and twenty year old Rudolph Meier was a Nazi POW working in local cotton fields while he was held at Camp Papago Park near Phoenix, Arizona. He was serving as a radio operator on a German submarine stationed near the eastern...

Author Charles Santangelo takes the 2000 Presidential election and creates a story whose basis is "what would have happened if, back then, the Supreme Court had allowed the Florida votes to be recounted." In "Turning Point" conservative Supreme Court Associate Justice Jane Storey Cunningham knows...

Slavery. In the twenty-first century it is difficult to imagine relationships among free and owned people. Due primarily to the poor living conditions of slaves on this plantation and the uncaring attitude of the owner, Hester's mother died after giving birth when Hester was just...

"The Red Wrath" is a poignant read highlighting the plight of the people of Afghanistan. Despite the oppression of the Communist Regime the people maintained their bravery and courageously sought their independence. The rule of the communist was harsh but the rule of the Taliban...

It is June of 1880 and Army Captain Jonas Hollister has been serving time in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was the only survivor from an incident when he and his men investigated a wagon train attack. The eleven men under him...

"Blues in the Wind-ReVisited" is a redo of the original book by Whitney LeBlanc. As a reader, I am grateful she took the time to reformulate the book as it was thoroughly enjoyable. The novel is set in small town Louisiana in the 1930's and...

The setting is Kentucky in 1856, those years just before the Civil War, and Elizabeth Martin has been a widow for three years. She lives with her children, Ruthie, and twelve year old Jamie who wants to be called JT now that he is growing...

In 1975, Darwin McClain finds an old Civil War era breastplate buried in the ground while he is readying the fields of his home in eastern Tennessee for planting. His wife Marty cleans it off and puts the breastplate in a drawer in their home...

Craig Ridgway leaves his well-educated home at the age of fifteen because he cannot imagine being in school another year. He moves from Philadelphia to Lancaster where he apprentices himself to the master-gunsmith Jakob Wetzel. When Jakob dies in January 1811, twenty-one year-old Craig loses...

"Alexander's Lighthouse" is a story set in Alexandria during the Imperium of Domitian. The setting is historical, but it creates major events that did not happen, so it is not entirely a historical novel. The story is generally well-written and produced, and the writing flows...