Historical Fiction Archives

4.5-STAR REVIEW: SISTERS OF CASTLE LEOD by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 6 January 2023

Publication Date: January 19, 2023 Millions are fans of Diana Gabaldon's popular Outlander books and television series, but few know that Gabaldon's fictional Castle Leoch was inspired by a real Scottish castle, Castle...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE ROSE AND THE THISTLE by Laura Frantz

Historical Fiction Lindy Bell - 5 January 2023

Publication Date: January 3, 2023 In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England....

5-STAR REVIEW: HALF NOTES FROM BERLIN by B.V. Glants

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 19 December 2022

Publication Date: October 4, 2022 Berlin, 1933. Hans believes he and his family are safe from persecution. Then, he discovers his family’s dirty secret: his maternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Christianity. Driven by the...

SPOTLIGHT: HALF NOTES FROM BERLIN by B.V. Glants Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 19 December 2022

Publication Date: October 4, 2022 Berlin, 1933. Hans believes he and his family are safe from persecution. Then, he discovers his family’s dirty secret: his maternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Christianity. Driven by the...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: 1887 the Day They Turned off the Water by A. E. Wasserman

Historical Fiction Lindy Bell - 15 December 2022

Publication Date: October 4, 2022 Spring 1887. Melting snowpack from the high Sierras will soon turn California's Central Valley into lush fields, but an armed man with a Sharps rifle shut off a...

SPOTLIGHT: ALL THE LOST PLACES by Amanda Dykes

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 12 December 2022

Publication Date: December 13, 2022 When all of Venice is unmasked, one man's identity remains a mystery . . . 1807 When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the quiet canals of Venice, a guild...

SPOTLIGHT: CAMPBELL’S BOY by Mary Kendall Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 9 December 2022

Publication Date: November 21, 2022 Heartbreak…with an underlay of hope. California plains in the 1850s. After losing his mother to cholera on the wagon train out west, Emmet Campbell mostly fends for himself in...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: CAMPBELL’S BOY by Mary Kendall

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 December 2022

Publication Date: November 21, 2022 Heartbreak…with an underlay of hope. California plains in the 1850s. After losing his mother to cholera on the wagon train out west, Emmet Campbell mostly fends for himself in...

SPOTLIGHT: THE SPINSTER, THE REBEL, & THE GOVERNOR by Charlene Bell Dietz Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 7 December 2022

nn Inkydance Book Club Publication Date: September 2, 2022 Move over Susan B. Anthony. There’s an unsung woman asking for the vote 224 years before you. In 1638-1648 Margaret Brent, fighting for justice became a...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE DRESSMAKER’S SECRET by Lorna Cook

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 6 December 2022

Publication Date: January 27, 2022 Paris, 1941: As Coco Chanel’s assistant, Adèle lives side by side with German officers in the splendor of The Ritz hotel. But Adèle has a secret. She is working for the...

5-STAR REVIEW: The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 28 November 2022

Publication Date: September 6, 2022 From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday—over a million copies sold—comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her...

4-STAR REVIEW: ALL THE BLOOD WE SHARE by Camilla Bruce

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 22 November 2022

Publication Date: November 22, 2022 A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American...