Questions of identity and historical continuity dominate in "Masks of God", an intricate historical fantasy novel. Set in the fourteenth century, Arnold Hermann’s grounded fantasy novel "Masks of God" concerns supernatural beings,... Read More

An Irish immigrant yearns for freedom, revealing her most secret hopes in letters to friends and would-be lovers, in the historical novel "Dear Missing Friend". In Susan McGuirk’s epistolary novel "Dear Missing Friend", letters go... Read More

In Terri Lewis’s affecting historical novella "When They Came Home", a shell-shocked soldier faces marital strain. In Kansas in 1919, Edith, a farmer’s daughter, is courted by Milton, a World War I veteran. Soon, they start a family... Read More

Zen Cho’s "The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo" is a witty historical romance about an up-and-coming writer’s entanglement with a literary legend in 1920s England. Through sharp, lively diary entries, Jade recounts how a negative book... Read More

Centering an Armenian boy, N. T. McQueen’s outstanding historical novel "Never Hide from the Devil" roils around a genocide, as Turkish forces surround the city of Van. Most of the story takes place over one month in 1915, when the... Read More

Greed, violence, and true love fuel Bianca M. Schwarz’s lively historical novel "The Missing Baroness". After a decade of hiding in the country from her murderous uncle, orphaned Georgina learns that he plans to have her pronounced... Read More

A noblewoman uses her wits to secure the man she loves, their child, and the future of her duchy in Kim Rendfeld’s resplendent novel "Duchess of the New Dawn". In 740 CE, Lady Chiltrude is the only daughter of one of Francia’s most... Read More

A boy adopts a strange creature in Zidrou’s stunning graphic novel "The Beast". Francois and his mother Jeanne live in Belgium, where they face ridicule and mistrust: Francois’s father was a German soldier who returned home after... Read More