Tag: historical fiction

To Entice a Spy by Diane Scott Lewis | Excerpt, $20 GC Giveaway, Review

To Entice a Spy by Diane Scott Lewis | Excerpt, $20 GC Giveaway, Review

To Entice a Spy by Diane Scott Lewis | Excerpt, $20 Gift Card Giveaway, Review

Widowed Countess Eseld Trehearne seeks revenge for the brutal death of her female companion during a Paris riot. On her return to England, Eseld delves into espionage to defeat the French rebels. Baron Robert Penhale, Eseld's childhood love, rejoins the Secret Services after his wife's death. He's determined to protect England from the revolution terrorizing France. A ruthless French spy fights for the common man while disguised as an English aristocrat. He's intent on revenge against those who oppose him. With the spy stalking them and Robert in fear for Eseld's life, the fate of the couple verges on disaster.

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Landscape of a Marriage: Central Park Was Only the Beginning by Gail Ward Olmsted

Landscape of a Marriage: Central Park Was Only the Beginning by Gail Ward O..

Landscape of a Marriage: Central Park Was Only the Beginning by Gail Ward Olmsted
A marriage of convenience leads to a life of passion and purpose. A shared vision transforms the American landscape forever.
New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother’s deathbed plea to “not let Mary suffer.” But she craves more than a marriage of convenience and sets out to win her husband’s love. Beginning with Central Park in New York City, Mary joins Fred on his quest to create a 'beating green heart' in the center of every urban space.

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It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay | 2021 BBNYA Semi-finalist Spotlight 

It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay | 2021 BBNYA Semi-finalist Spotlight..

2021 BBNYA Semifinalist Spotlight on It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
This is a powerful tale of family, a celebration of decency, and the heartbreak of society’s injustices then that rings true today.

Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's 1921 in Georgia.

Thank you to @KarlaMJay1 @BBNYA_Official @The_WriteReads @FolioSociety for inviting me to participate again this year.

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The Other Side of Whale Road

The Other Side of Whale Road

The Other Side of Whale Road by K.A. Hayton | Spotlight
When his mum burns down their house on the Whitehorse estate, sixteen-year-old Joss is sent to live in a sleepy Suffolk village.
The place is steeped in history, as Joss learns when a bike accident pitches him back more than 1,000 years to an Anglo-Saxon village. That history also tells him his new friends are in mortal peril from bloodthirsty invaders. Can he warn their ruler, King Edmund, in time?
And will he ever get home?

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Her Previous Self by Anne Allen | The Guernsey Novels #8 

Her Previous Self by Anne Allen | The Guernsey Novels #8 

Her Previous Self by Anne Allen | The Guernsey Novels #8
Two women, living two hundred years apart but closer than sisters.
Mary, miserable in her marriage to Thomas Carre, a merchant and privateer, and living in the new family mansion in Georgian Guernsey. Lucy, separated from her husband after a tragic loss and now acting as an unwilling sitter for her elderly grandfather, Gregory Carre, who has inherited the same mansion.
Lucy is haunted by Mary’s continued presence in the house and finds herself being pulled more and more back in time. How is it possible for her to live as Mary? To experience scenes from her tragic life?

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