Historical Fiction Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: A NOBLE CUNNING: THE COUNTESS AND THE TOWER by Patricia Bernstein

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 17 May 2023

Publication Date: March 7, 2023 A thrilling tale, based on a true story, of one woman’s tremendous courage and incomparable wit in trying to rescue her husband from the Tower of London the...

SPOTLIGHT: PETUNIA 1949 by Leah Brewer Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 12 May 2023

Publication Date: May 1, 2023 Spitfire, Petunia Hollings was born in 1935 in the deep South. She spends her childhood working the cotton fields and longing for her daddy to love her as...

5-STAR REVIEW: PETUNIA 1949 by Leah Brewer

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 12 May 2023

Publication Date: May 1, 2023 Spitfire, Petunia Hollings was born in 1935 in the deep South. She spends her childhood working the cotton fields and longing for her daddy to love her as...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE CASTLE KEEPERS by Aimie K. Runyan, J’nell Ciesielski & Rachel McMillan

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 10 May 2023

Publication Date: May 2, 2023 Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After...

5-STAR REVIEW: MADAME POMMERY by Rebecca Rosenberg

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 8 May 2023

Publication Date: March 1, 2023 Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides...

4-STAR REVIEW: TREE OF LIVES by Elizabeth Garden

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 8 May 2023

Publication Date: October 10, 2017 An epic story about the power of words and actions, and the legacy of violence and abuse passed down through generations -- and the redeeming strength of one...

5-STAR REVIEW: OF WHITE ASHES by Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 1 May 2023

Publication Date: May 1, 2023 The bombing of Pearl Harbor propels America into WWII and two Japanese Americans into chaos. Separated by the Pacific, each embarks on a tumultuous path to survive childhood and...

4-STAR REVIEW: RED ROSE AND THE SECOND SON by Mary Beth Dearmon

Historical Romance Lindy Bell - 28 April 2023

Publication Date: April 25, 2023 "Red Rose and the Second Son" recounts the saga of two precocious youths, Philip Parr and Elizabeth "Bess" Stanley, drawn together in the flames of adversity during the...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE COURTESAN’S DAUGHTER by Susanne Dunlap

Historical Fiction Lindy Bell - 28 April 2023

Publication Date: April 25, 2023 What happens when a daughter’s dream and a mother’s sordid past collide? New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in...

5-STAR REVIEW: FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL by Renée Rosen

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 26 April 2023

Publication Date: April 25, 2023 It’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHEN BLACK PANTHERS PROWLED AMERIKA by Dr. Pam

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 21 April 2023

Publication Date: May 12, 2022 Nef, short for Nefertiti, is born and raised in the French West Indies. Her mother is a devout Catholic who believes in racial integration, while her father advocates...

5-STAR REVIEW: ON THE MARCH by Trudy Krisher

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 19 April 2023

Publication Date: November 30, 2021 If you're familiar with the power of #metoo and #shepersisted, you'll understand the power of ON THE MARCH: A NOVEL OF THE WOMEN'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON. A work of Women's Fiction that has crossover appeal...