Detail about everyday living in the early 1900s highlights this story of an African American family. The intriguing novel "Blackberry Women" by Ella O Williams evokes thought and emotion in equal share as a first-generation freeborn... Read More

Dark threads of racial injustice underscore the multiple plot points of this detailed historical novel. Erica Bell skillfully uses a historical backdrop for her compelling fiction in Hilda and the Ship’s Doctor. During a treacherous... Read More

A haunted mansion with an intelligent personality propels this eerie tale set in New Mexico. In "Smoke Dreams", Donald Willerton teeters on the brink of historical and horror fiction, creating an eye-opening escapade for the uninitiated.... Read More

The Dracula we’ve never known was more than just a bloodsucker; Augustyn gives us the details. To most, the name Dracula calls up old black-and-white horror movies, as well as the pop cultural artifacts they spawned, that feature this... Read More

Worlds collide in this unique, action-filled tale of Aztecs and conquistadors. Power, greed, revenge, duty, and love surround a young Aztec high priestess and an honorable conquistador flung together in the exotic and deadly jungles of... Read More

Parks confronts racism and immigration issues in the World War II era without mincing words. For the successive generations of Russian women in Cynthia Rogers Parks’s poignant novel, "The Nesting Dolls", repercussions of their actions... Read More

Rollins’s lucid descriptions allow a twenty-first-century eye to discern the humanity and heroism of a primitive world and time. Travel fourteen thousand years into the past in this realistic depiction of primitive society. Powerful... Read More

Joseph masterfully navigates the complexities of her world’s political landscape with a balance between character development and dramatic action. In "Resurrection", the exciting next volume in the Alterran Legacy series, Regina M.... Read More