The fluidity of the bonds of brotherhood and faith are examined in John Milliken Thompson’s first novel, "The Reservoir", which is based on a true story and focuses on the lives of brothers Tommie and Willie Cluverius in 1885 Richmond,... Read More

Born a slave, Shadrach Cobb grows up yearning to be free. Against the cotton plantation’s rules, he secretly learns to read and write at the same time his master, Morris Pendrickton, teaches him the family shoe-making trade. Cobb... Read More

Young love on the American frontier in the 1870s could be as treacherous as a relationship in a back alley in a twenty-first-century inner city. Nostalgia buffs glorify the old Wild West as a place where integrity fought dishonesty and... Read More

Though "Eromenos" means “beloved,” this is not a simple love story. Instead, it is a story of obsession involving Hadrian, Rome’s fourteenth emperor, and his young lover Antinous, who spent his adolescence—seven years—as... Read More

Robert S. Bender lingers through his remaining days at Denton High School at a local diner with friends—at one point, participating in a gang fight with “Jesters, Dukes, and Blades”—before attending Cornell University as an... Read More

Amelia stared at the remnants of her former life and grieved for every lost doorway and chimney of the grand Victorian lady. Somewhere in the charred ruins were the carbon splinters of a cherry wood bar and a couch where Ling Lee had met... Read More

Set just one year after the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, this novel echoes Devil in the White City in its historical richness and the fact of a mysterious murder central to its plot. Told through the eyes of an industrious... Read More

For those who ever wondered what happened to John Smith after Pocahontas, this is the book for you. "The Leaves of Fate" is the third volume in the epic trilogy In the Land of Whispers, set 400 years ago in the American wilderness of the... Read More