Unpacking Leviticus: The Third Night Journey of Nicodemus by Chris Solaas takes readers back to first-century Jerusalem, where respected Pharisee Nicodemus receives a strange message—just one word: Tetelestai ('It is finished'). That one word sets him and his skeptical Greek servant, Trecho, on a dangerous...

Set in 19th-century rural England, Betsey by Marcia Clayton is a gripping prequel to The Hartford Manor Series. It follows the early life of Betsey Lovering, an eight-year-old child growing up poor with a mother struggling to take care of her children, a father whose...

MaryAnn Shank’s Sor Juana, My Beloved: The Poetry, The Passion of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz presents a tapestry of the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of Latin America’s most illustrious figures. The novel weaves biographical fiction by portraying the...

NO! A Response to Donald J. Trump by Barry Robbins is a penetrating critique of authoritarianism by giving voice to objects and abstract concepts that bear witness to America's democratic decline. It’s a wildly creative take on politics, where everything from a coffee bean to...

Born to Trouble: The Clan Donald Saga Book 4 by Regan Walker continues the superb historical fiction series built around the Donalds and their kin in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland around the 15th century. Alexander is Lord of the Isles and heir to...

Behold the Bird in Flight by Terri Lewis centers around Isabelle d’Angoulême, a twelfth-century French-born aristocrat who longs to forge her identity in a world dominated by powerful men. While growing up, Isabelle is groomed by her Maman to run a castle and be a...

C. R. Hurst's Round the World: A Life of Jeanne Baret is book one of a two-part biographical series inspired by the real historical figure of Jeanne Baret (1740 – 1807), the first woman to complete a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe (1766–1769). Jeanne...

Humbug by Sarah Whelan masterfully transforms Ebenezer Scrooge’s narrative in A Christmas Carol from the third person to first person point of view. The result is that Scrooge’s misanthropic and miserly nature is deconstructed for readers who will no doubt view the time-honored tale in...

It is 1676. The colonists in America are caught up in a raging war against Native Americans under a formidable chief dubbed King Philip. After a cattle raid in the small town of Hatfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, by Algonquian natives, the war council ordered an...

Sir William Ellesworth, an Englishman of dubious reputation, is in Russia on a grand mission, one he hoped would stay a secret between him and his daughter Anna; assassinating the Tsar of Russia. However, perhaps taking his daughter to Nyaboskoye was a bad idea. Anna...