The Last Fatal Hour by Jan Matthews Spotlight

Publication Date: April 7, 2026
Publisher: Coffee and Ink Press
Pages: 310
Genre: Historical Mystery

Book Description

A budding socialite haunted by war steps into the Brooklyn Heights world of whispers, seances, and murder.

For Leona Gladney, former woman soldier of the Union Army, life goes on despite the echoes of the battlefield in her heart. Now a suffragist and budding socialite in Brooklyn Heights, she yearns for a literary life and family. But her husband’s business partner embezzles their money and disappears.

The society matrons of Brooklyn Heights turn a gimlet eye on Leona after the suspicious

The Relic Keeper by Heidi Eljarbo Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: 18th November 2025
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 162
Genre: Historical Fiction

Praise

The Relic Keeper ultimately stands as a radiant celebration of hope, kindness, and the beauty that emerges when wounded souls dare to reach towards the light. It is a story to savour, reflect upon, and carry with you — an unforgettable addition to Eljarbo’s heartfelt repertoire of novels that bring history to life.
- Yarde Book Promotion

Book Description

Italy, 1620.

Angelo is an orphan, lonely and forgotten. Having been passed on from one family to the

The Vicar's Daughter at the Lodging House by Natalie Meg Evans - Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 30 January, 2026
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: Print, e-book and audio
Series:The Wartime Lodging House #2
Genre: Historical Fiction, World War 2

Book Description

London, 1940. When Jess Gresham arrives in the capital, she’s completely out of her depth. With bombs falling and a heartbreaking family lie about her beloved sister to get to the bottom of, can she find the help she needs at a Mayfair lodging house?

When Jess discovers the letter from her older sister Charlotte tucked into an old typewriter, her world is shaken. It’s dated two days after their father, the vicar, said she died. How could he lie about that? Desperate to uncover the truth, Jess must find her sister. The London

Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: October 18, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 336
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

Venice, 1710

Poinsettia Girl is based on the story of Agata de la Pieta, an orphan musician of the Ospedale de la Pieta.

Ten-year-old Agata's world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known orphanage, hidden from everything she's ever known.

Agata auditions for the conservatory style music school where music is both salvation

Bright One by Lisajoy Sachs Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: October 18, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Series: Bright One Series, Book #1
Pages: 322
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.

Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs’ great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around her. As antisemitism tightens its grip and war edges ever closer, Jetti holds fast to her daughter, Berta, with the fragile belief that love and courage might still carve a way through the darkness.

Murder on a Frosty Night by Verity Bright Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 08 December, 2025
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: Print, e-book and audio
Series: A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #24
Genre: Historical Mystery, Cosy Mystery

Book Description

Wrapping presents and singing at midnight mass on a frosty night… Lady Swift is determined to enjoy Christmas at home this year, until another body turns up!

Winter 1925. Eleanor and Hugh are decking the halls for their first married Christmas together when butler Clifford arrives with a mysterious telegram. A lucrative case awaits their new detective agency… but in the most remote county in England. The note insists they must be there by midnight to accept the job.

Murder at the Royal Palace by Verity Bright Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 30 September, 2025
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: Print, e-book and audio
Series: A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #23
Genre: Historical Mystery, Cosy Mystery

Book Description

Lady Eleanor Swift has a special royal invitation. She’s got just the right dress and the perfect plus one… But wait! Is that a body by the throne?

Lady Eleanor Swift is at Buckingham Palace to see her new husband, Detective Chief Inspector Seldon, knighted. Brimming with pride, all she can hope is that Gladstone the bulldog behaves himself in front of the king.

But the happy day is overshadowed when Dilly Dalrymple, a royal guard, collapses. The head

Lord Frederick's Return by Catherine Kullman Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 22nd July 2025
Publisher: Willow Books
Pages: 269
Genre: Regency Romance

Book Description

An older hero, an enigmatic heroine and a delightfully outspoken four-year-old. Throw scandal into the mix for a gripping and tender Regency love story

August 1816. Lord Frederick Danlow returns to England after spending 18 years in India. He plans to make a home for himself and his motherless, four-year-old daughter, Ruperta. Unsure where to start, he accepts an invitation to stay at Ponsonby Place, home of Colonel Jack Ponsonby who made his fortune in India, and his daughter Susannah, the mistress of the household.

Unspoken by Jann Alexander Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Series: The Dust Series
Pages: 368
Genre: Historical Fiction
Book Trailer: Here

Book Description

A farm devastated. A dream destroyed. A family scattered. And one Texas girl determined to salvage the wreckage.

Ruby Lee Becker can't breathe. It's 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice

Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury! by Judith Arnopp Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: June 21st, 2025
Publisher: independently published
Pages: 342
Genre: Historical Fiction/Biographical Fiction

Book Description

Marguerite: Queen of England

From the moment Henry VI's new queen, Marguerite of Anjou, sets foot on English soil she is despised by the English as a foreigner, and blamed for the failures of the hundred years war in France.

 Her enemies impede her role as the king’s consort and when Henry sinks into apparent madness, her bid to become regent is rejected. Marguerite must fight, not only for her own position but to maintain Henry’s possession of the crown. 

The Will of God by Julian de la Motte Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: May 13, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 292
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

"Deus Lo Vult!"

Gilles is the natural son of the Earl Waltheof, executed by William the Conqueror for supposed treachery. Raised in Normandy by Queen Matilda of England, Gilles is a young servant of Robert, Duke of Normandy, when the first call for a Holy War against the infidel and for the liberation of Jerusalem is raised in Christendom. Along with thousands of others, inspired by a variety of motives, intense piety mixed with a sense of adventure and the prospects of richness, Gilles becomes a key and respected follower of the Duke of

A Shape on the Air by Julia Ibbotson Spotlight

Publication Date: January 8th, 2022
Publisher: Archbury Books
Series: Dr DuLac series, Book #1
Pages: 220 ebk, 366 pbk
Genre: Medieval Timeslip Mystery Romance

Book Description

Can echoes of the past threaten the present? They are 1500 years apart, but can they reach out to each other across the centuries? One woman faces a traumatic truth in the present day. The other is forced to marry the man she hates as the 'dark ages' unfold.

How can Dr Viv DuLac, medievalist and academic, unlock the secrets of the past?

Traumatised by betrayal, she slips into 499 AD and into the body of Lady Vivianne, who is also battling treachery. Viv must uncover the mystery