In Josi S. Kilpack’s ebullient Regency romance The Valet’s Secret, a classic case of mistaken identity inspires love between the heir to an earldom and a widow. Kenneth, disguised as his valet, runs into Rebecca, who dodges his... Read More

In Francine Rivers’s delightful novel The Lady’s Mine, an exiled Boston brahmin claims her uncle’s property in a “wild and woolly” mining town, flourishing against expectations. Kathryn, whose rift with her stepfather propelled... Read More

A man grapples with his past and his racial identity in Paulo Scott’s novel "Phenotypes". Federico and his brother Lourenço are both Black. But Federico, being light-skinned, escapes much of the prejudice that Lourenço faces. These... Read More

In Lorena Hughes’s panoramic novel "The Spanish Daughter", World War I left Spain devastated. Puri, a chocolatier, and her novelist husband leave their Seville home for lush, tropical Ecuador, hoping to claim the inheritance left to... Read More

Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Anni Domingo’s epic historical novel honors the unbreakable bond between two sisters who are captured by slavers in a vicious raid on their African village, sold, and sent to two... Read More

Former fiancées weigh the cost of reuniting with each other in Crystal Caudill’s invigorating "Counterfeit Love", a Gilded Age novel set in Cincinnati’s underworld. Broderick, a Secret Service agent, infiltrates a counterfeit ring... Read More

"Steel" is an intimate coming-of-age story set in a gritty northern Minnesota mining town in the 1920s. The town, made up of poor immigrant families—mainly Italians, Croatians, and Scandinavians—has as its sustenance the world’s... Read More

In 1937, Los Angeles is baking in a September heat wave. The citizens of the growing city, thirsty and on edge, are angry and desperate for water. They wait for the okay on a new dam project, though the water department’s chief... Read More