Historical Fiction Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN by Susan Coventry REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 7 November 2025

Publication Date: November 4, 2025 Inspired by the groundbreaking discoveries of ether and chloroform anesthesia, William Stewart Halsted pursues a surgical career with relentless ambition, daring to perform operations deemed impossible by his...

SPOTLIGHT: SCENES FROM A SONG by Susan Sloate Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 5 November 2025

Publication Date: August 19, 2025 On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter...

5-STAR REVIEW: SCENES FROM A SONG by Susan Sloate

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 5 November 2025

Publication Date: August 19, 2025 On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: HER FORGOTTEN HOURS by Lily Graham

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 5 November 2025

Publication Date: November 5, 2025 The Germans shot down her plane. She couldn’t remember who she was. But she knew she had to save him… France 1944: Frankie opens her eyes and winces. The daylight...

4-STAR REVIEW: ICENI: THE YEAR OF SACRIFICE by Stephen D. Owen

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 30 October 2025

Iceni: Book 1 Publication Date: January 28, 2025 Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice is the first thrilling instalment in this historical trilogy. 60 AD. The death of Prasutagus, the Iceni king, leaves his kingdom divided between...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE LETTER FROM THE ISLAND by Rose Alexander REVIEWER’S CHOICE!🏆

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 27 October 2025

Publication Date: October 24, 2025 Every week Calliope writes a letter to her twin sister who died sixty years ago. One day, she receives a letter back… Present day, London. Now an elderly lady...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE IRISH NURSE AT THE LODGING HOUSE by Natalie Meg Evans

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 22 October 2025

The Wartime Lodging House: Book 1 Publication Date: October 21, 2025 London, 1940. Walking up the steps of the lodging house at No. 34 Hill Street in Mayfair, Grace Whelan is full of hope,...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: HER HUSBAND’S RETURN by Suzanne Goldring

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 16 October 2025

Publication Date: October 16, 2025 The war set her free. His return would destroy everything… London, 1941: When Frankie receives the telegram telling her that her husband Dickie is missing, presumed dead, she does not weep, or crumble. Instead,...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE HONG KONG WIDOW by Kristen Loesch

Mystery Amy Wilson - 14 October 2025

Publication Date: October 7, 2025 Hong Kong, 1953: In a remote mansion, witnesses insist a massacre took place. The police see nothing but pristine rooms and declare it a collective hallucination. Until decades...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHISTLING WOMEN AND CROWING HENS by Melora Fern

Historical Fiction Sandy Saucier - 14 October 2025

Publication Date: May 16, 2025 To escape her strait-laced overbearing sister, Birdie Stauffer auditions for the all-female Versatile Quintet, Chautauqua circuit's opening act. Through this train-traveling roadshow she experiences the tumultuous 1920's, a...

5-STAR REVIEW: ONLY I CAN SAVE THEM by Imogen Matthews

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 10 October 2025

Publication Date: October 10, 2025 The little girl’s eyes brim with tears. My hands shake with fear as I take her picture, right before the carriage doors bolt shut, taking her and hundreds...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE NANNY OUTSIDE THE GATES by Shari J. Ryan

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 8 October 2025

Publication Date: October 7, 2025 Auschwitz, 1944. Halina clutches the baby to her chest, cuddling her close for warmth. She must keep moving. Her heart pounds as she races through the thick trees....