Lords of London, Book 1 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Traumatized by a blaze that killed her parents, young Johanna remembers nothing of her privileged past and remains ignorant of the dangers that surround her. She grows up among the servants, where she develops a sense of purpose that [...]
Tags: Ambersley, amnesia, Amy Atwell, historical romance, Lords of London, Regency, Vaughan
Posted in Historical, Romance |
Was this ragtag band of precocious intellectuals the worst, or the most courageous, team in college football? From 1892 until the 1930s the legendary Monsters of the Midway dominated college football. The University of Chicago team was coached by the most successful coach in college football, Amos Alonzo Stagg. In 1939 Chicago dropped out [...]
Tags: big ten, Chicago, chicago bears, chip hilton, college football, college sports, football, halas, Illinois, indiana, maroons, monsters of the midway, muhammad ali, seymour, sixties, stagg, university of chicago
Posted in Fiction-Humor, General Fiction, Historical |
Light in the Mountains traces the development of the author’s unique relationship with the Rai people of Basa Village. Jeff Rasley has worked with this remote village in the Nepal Himalayas to help build an elementary school, a hydroelectric system and smokeless stoves. But Rasley claims that he has received more than he has [...]
Tags: adventure travel, alicia rasley, economic development, hiking, Himalayas, indiana, mountaineering, nepal, philanthropy, quaker, rasley, sherpa, spiritual growth, three cups of tea, trekking
Posted in Advice & How-To, Historical, Nonfiction |
Storykeeper is a historical-literary novel, based on the translations of sixteenth-century Spanish documents, but told from the perspective of the people of the Mississippi River Valley, who lived and outlasted the invasion of Conquistadors in 1541. One-hundred years later, and prompted by a dream, Manaha, Mother-of-None, steps before the village fire. Rejecting the taboos [...]
Tags: adventure, coming of age, Conquistadors, De Soto, Native American, Pre-American History, Storytelling
Posted in General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Young Adult |
In 1237, a man journeys to a priory in Yorkshire to seek refuge and treatment for battle wounds. He is betrayed and murdered. His final, dying act is to fire an arrow through a window, asking to be buried where it lands. Nearly eight hundred years later, a schoolboy’s incredible discovery will lead [...]
Tags: fantasy, historical, middle grade, Novella, paranormal, Robin Hood, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, young adult
Posted in Fantasy, Historical, Middle Grade, Novella, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, Young Adult |
Every 25,800 years, when the Sun has made a reverse cycle through the Zodiac and rests in the eye of Sagittarius (the archer), the temporal and celestial planes touch. The Eye of the Archer, the new novel by Jeffrey Marcus Oshins, author, musician and filmmaker, tells of the arrival of the first deities and [...]
Tags: 12, 12-21-12, 2012, age, apocalypse, Apokaful, Archer, Author, Aztec, bridge, calendar, cataclysm, celestial, December, Eye, film, gateway, gods, holy, Jeffrey, Marcus, Maya, Mayan, Mesoamerica, musician, mystical, mythical, mythology, new age, novel, Oshins, prophecy, sacred, Sagittarius, spirits, survivors, visions
Posted in Fantasy, General Fiction, Historical, Horror, Middle Grade, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Science Thriller, YA Dystopian, YA Paranormal |
Set in the 11th century, Book Two of the Montbryce Legacy is the story of Caedmon Woolgar, the illegitimate son of a Norman Earl, Ram de Montbryce. A warrior who has always believed he is the son of a dead Saxon hero of the Battle of Hastings, Caedmon’s discovery of his illegitimacy threatens to [...]
Tags: alpha males, historical rom ance, intimacy, love story, medieval romance, passion, warriors
Posted in Historical, Romance |
In 1850s South Carolina, ladies with ambition and a penchant for wearing trousers are rare indeed. But that’s Charlotte Whitney all over. Not only does Charlie yearn to resurrect her late father’s newspaper, she wants to be its editor. That position, however, has been handed to Richmond newspaperman Adam Chase. Undeterred, Charlie convinces Adam [...]
Tags: historical romance, journalism, romance novel, sensual, series, sexy, Southern
Posted in Historical, Romance |
Dakota Dream captures the blazing pride of a new nation—and the furious heat of a forbidden ecstasy. Bound by Passion: Dominique DuBois was a golden beauty, and niece to General George Custer, a stalwart enemy of Indian nations. She could not explain her fierce attraction to a shy and handsome private in her uncle’s [...]
Tags: custer, historical, humor, western
Posted in Historical, Romance, Western |
King David’s rise to power beckons Tamar’s mother to leave her temple, her priestess tradition and her first marriage to join the growing royal harem. Traveling with her, young Tamar gains the ancient gift of hearing the whispers of sacred Serpents, the will of the Goddess. The conflict between her Goddess and David’s single [...]
Tags: Biblical, King David
Posted in Historical, Women's Fiction |
Later generations would call it the Great Persecution. In 303 A.D., the Roman emperor Diocletian set out to destroy Christianity. Replenish the Earth is a riveting tale of a small Christian community that struggles to survive one of the most vicious assaults in human history. Editorial Review “…the author captures both the essence [...]
Tags: christian fiction, Christian historical fiction, fiction, General Fiction, historical, Literary Fiction
Posted in Christian Fiction, General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller |
New York, 1866 When her mistress receives an utterly unromantic letter from a potential suitor, servant Susanna Parkwell is asked to craft an appropriate response. Though hesitant to take part in the deception, Susanna agrees, never dreaming the scorned suitor will write back. Theodore Blakely abhors being pressured by his family to marry, but [...]
Tags: 19th century romance, carina press, cinderella story, crista mchugh, cyrano de bergerac, historical romance, love letters, Novella, sweet romance
Posted in Historical, Romance |
Esperanza wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered, “I wait only for you to make me a woman.” In 1698 laFlorida, Esperanza, a wildly independent Timucuan herbolaria, has a decision to make–surrender her whole being to Juan Francisco, a known rebel recently returned to the province, or fulfill her chosen mission as a [...]
Tags: Colonial Florida, Florida History, healers, Hispanic culture-historical, historical fiction, native americans, romance, Spanish colonial period, Spanish missions in Florida, Timucua Indians, U. S. History
Posted in Historical, Literary Fiction, Romance |
Disguised as a prim schoolteacher, Aubrey Granger travels to Santa Fe to avenge a past wrong and encounters Christian McBride, a man who had been jailed for a crime he did not commit. Reviews As reviewed by Kathe Robin of Romantic Times: “Under The Desert Moon is the ‘Silverado’ of Western romances. Canham has [...]
Tags: adventure, historical romance, western, western romance
Posted in Historical, Romance, Western |
Be Careful What You Wish For. . . No-nonsense stuntwoman Isabella Douglas will do anything to stop an unwanted divorce and reclaim the happy life she had, even allow her old friend to concoct a magical spell to turn back time. But when the spell goes awry, Izzy finds herself trapped aboard a 1768 [...]
Tags: award winning author, erotic romance, historical romance, pirate romance, romance, Time travel romance
Posted in Historical, Novella, Paranormal, Romance |
‘Some men don’t fall in love, they get lost. I was lost from the moment I saw Anastasia Romanov in the taxi club that first night …’ When Michael Sheridan jumped into the Whangpoa River to save a woman he had met in one of Shanghai’s taxi clubs, his life changed irrevocably. A Russian [...]
Tags: Anastasia, Berlin, Czar, London, Romanovs, Russia, Russian revolution, Shangai
Posted in General Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction |
Written in a lively dramatic style, this 50 page e-book is perfect for readers age 10 to 110. At a time when most women stayed home to raise children, violinist Maud Powell and trumpeter Edna White thrilled millions with their performances. Maud was the first instrumentalist to record for RCA Victor in 1904. Edna [...]
Tags: American history, classical music, early recordings, vaudeville, women musicians, women trumpet players, women violinists, women\'s history
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction |
When Nicholas Peacock is cheated from his inheritance of Peacock Hall in Kent, he sails to South Carolina. He buys land, clears it, and plants cotton. Eventually he builds a magnificent house known as Paradise Plantation. He falls in love with the daughter of Bernard Jackson on the neighboring plantation, but when Civil War [...]
Posted in Historical, Romance, Women's Fiction |