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The Healer of Briarwood by MK McClintock
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Publication Date: December 15, 2020
Publisher: Trappers Peak Publishing
Format: Paperback & ebook; 260 pages
Series: Montana Gallagher Series, Book 7
Genre: Historical/Romance/Victorian

Synopsis

A man with a healer’s touch. A woman with a healer’s heart.

Doctor Finnegan Brody tends his patients, keeps to himself, and vividly remembers the heartaches and trials from the Civil War and why he devoted his life to healing. He watches the townspeople live their lives, loving and laboring alongside one another, and wonders if one day he will give a woman as much time and

The Things We Don't Say by Ella Carey
Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: January 25, 2021
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: ebook & paperback
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

From top-ten bestseller Ella Carey comes a gripping, haunting and utterly captivating novel about love, secrets and betrayal in a story that spans the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century.

What happens when the truths you have built your life on start to crumble?

Emma Temple sits looking out of the window in her beautiful apartment in the heart of

The Danish King's Enemy by M.J. Porter
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Publication Date: 20th December 2020 (please note this is a rerelease of Viking Enemy, which was a rerelease of Ealdormen)
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 211 Pages
Series: (The Earls of Mercia, Book 2)
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Every story has a beginning.

Leofwine has convinced his king to finally face his enemies in battle and won a great victory, but in the meantime, events have spiralled out of control elsewhere.

With the death of Olaf Tryggvason of Norway,

The Last King by M.J. Porter
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Publication Date: April 23, 2020
Format: Paperback & eBook; 314 pages
Series: The Ninth Century, Book One
Genre: Historical Thriller

Synopsis

They sent three hundred warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough.

Mercia lies broken but not beaten, her alliance with Wessex in tatters.

Coelwulf, a fierce and bloody warrior, hears whispers that Mercia has been betrayed from his home in the west. He fears no man, especially not the Vikings sent to hunt him down.

The Other Cipher by Heidi Eljarbo
Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 2 December 2020
Publisher: Independently Published
Series: Soli Hansen Mysteries Book 2
Page Length: 200 Pages
Genre: Historical Mystery

Synopsis

In the captivating second book of the Soli Hansen Mysteries, two women—separated by more than three hundred years—are connected through their love of art.

1613. Fabiola Ruber is been wed to a man she does not know and must live in a country with a new language and different customs. The memories of a lost love in her hometown Malta haunt her, and she sets out to find an

All Manner of Things by Wendy J. Dunn
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Publication Date: January 15th 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Poesy Quill Publishing
Series: Falling Pomegranate Seeds, Book #2
Print Length: 449 Pages

Synopsis

Winter, 1539

MarĂ­a de Salinas is dying.

Too ill to travel, she writes a letter to her daughter Katherine, the young duchess of Suffolk. A letter telling of her life: a life intertwined with her friend and cousin Catalina of Aragon, the youngest child of Isabel of Castile. It is a letter to help her daughter understand the choices she has made in her life

A Deadly Fortune by Stacie Murphy
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Publication Date: January 5, 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
Genre: Historical Mystery

Synopsis

A historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy.

Amelia Matthew has done the all-but-impossible, especially for an orphan in Gilded Age New York City. Along with her foster brother Jonas, she has parleyed her modest psychic talent into a safe and comfortable life. But safety and comfort vanish when a head injury leaves Amelia with a dramatically-expanded gift. After

A Painter in Penang by Clare Flynn
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Publication Date: 6th October 2020
Publisher: Cranbrook Press
Page Length: 362 Pages
Series: Penang Series, Book 3
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya where she was born. Expulsion from her Nairobi convent school offers a welcome escape – the chance to stay with her parents’ friends, Mary and Reggie Hyde-Underwood on their Penang rubber estate. But this is 1948 and communist insurgents are embarking on a

Beneath Black Clouds and White by Virginia Crow
Spotlight

Publication Date: 11th April 2019
Publisher: Crowvus
Print Length: 637 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction/Military Fiction/Family Saga

Synopsis

Despite adoring his family and enjoying frequenting gaming tables, Captain Josiah Tenterchilt’s true love is the British Army and he is committed to his duty. As such, he does not hesitate to answer the army’s call when King Louis XVI of France is executed.

Accompanied by his wife to Flanders, Josiah finds his path crosses with a man who could not be more different from him: an apprentice

She Sees Ghosts by David Fitz-Gerald
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Publication Date: October 29, 2020
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Format: Paperback & eBook; 270 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

A blazing fire killed her family and devoured her home. A vengeful demon haunted her. Ghosts of the Revolutionary War needed help that only she could provide. A young woman languished, desperate to survive, and teetered on the edge of sanity.

Mehitable grew up in a freshly tamed town, carved from the primeval forest. Family, friends, and working at the mercantile filled her days and warmed her heart. For

The Villainous Viscount by Lucinda Elliot
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Publication Date: February 24, 2017
Format: Paperback & eBook; 284 Pages
Genre: Fiction/Satire/Gothic/Romance

Synopsis

An appreciative satire of the cliches of traditional Gothic.

When Clarinda Greendale inherits the fortune of disreputable uncle she hardly knows, she does not expect to find herself forced into marriage with an aristocratic fortune hunter and wild, brawling, debauched social outcast. Still, she has always found Harley Venn set off the most unmaidenly tinglings in her; that is one consolation.

The Wolf Banner by Paula Lofting
Spotlight and Excerpt

Publication Date: August 26th 2020 / Second Edition:
Publisher: Longship Publishing
Series: Sons of the Wolf, Book 2
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

WAR AND BLOODFEUD

"Best battle description ever!"

1056...England lurches towards war as the rebellious Lord Alfgar plots against the indolent King Edward. Sussex thegn, Wulfhere, must defy both his lord, Harold Godwinson, and his bitter enemy, Helghi, to protect his beloved daughter.

Secret Shores by Ella Carey
Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: December 10th, 2020
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: ebook
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

From bestselling author Ella Carey comes an utterly gripping and sweeping historical novel about terrible choices and heartbreaking family mysteries. The past holds more secrets than we can ever imagine…

1946. Young, beautiful artist Rebecca survived the devastating war that claimed the lives of so many of the men and women she grew up with. Her friends have returned as empty shells or not at all. But although peace has been declared, Rebecca is still fighting at home.

A Wild Heart by Celeste De Blasis
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Publication Date: December 8th, 2020
Publisher: Bookouture
Series: Wild Swan Trilogy, Book 2
Format: ebook
Genre: Historical Fiction, Family Saga

Synopsis

Alexandria Falconer gazes around the honeyed land of Wild Swan, the extraordinary horse farm she built up from nothing in the border state of Maryland. It has been Alex’s sanctuary through years of turmoil, and she has come of age in this land of opportunity. But the storm clouds of civil war are gathering, and Alex knows she has a choice to make to protect her family and maintain the precarious peace at Wild Swan.

The Brittle Sea by Tom Kane
Spotlight and Excerpt

Publication Date: 19th June 2020
Publisher: TigerBites
Print Length: 295 pages
Series: The Brittle Saga Trilogy, Book 1
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

The Titanic disaster is the catalyst that sparks a bloody feud between two families in early 20th century America.

Magda Asparov is travelling from her home in the Ukraine to be the chosen bride of American businessman Matthew Turner III. But the ill-fated voyage of the unsinkable ship has far reaching consequences for her and her savior.

Guest Post from Elizabeth St. John, Author of By Love Divided: Researching and writing historical fiction from my family’s letters, diaries and papers.

Publication Date: October 2017
Publisher: Falcon Historical
Series: The Lydiard Chronicles, Book 2
Page Length: 381 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

London, 1630. 

Widowed and destitute, Lucy St.John is fighting for survival and makes a terrible choice to secure a future for her children. Worse still, her daughter Luce rejects the royal court and a wealthy arranged marriage, and falls in love with a charismatic soldier. As England tumbles toward bloody civil war, Luce’s beloved brother Allen chooses to fight

Into the Unbounded Night by Mitchell James Kaplan
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Publication Date: September 1, 2020
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Format: Paperback & eBook; 231 Pages
Genre: Literary Historical

Synopsis

When her village in Albion is sacked by the Roman general Vespasian, young Aislin is left without home and family. Determined to exact revenge, she travels to Rome, a sprawling city of wealth, decadence, and power. A “barbarian” in a “civilized” world, Aislin struggles to comprehend Roman ways. From a precarious hand-to-mouth existence on the streets, she becomes the mistress of a wealthy senator, but their child Faolan is born with a disability that renders him

Historical Stories of Betrayal by Judith Arnopp et al
Spotlight and Excerpt

Publication Date: November 17, 2020
Publisher: Historical Fictioneers
Page Length: 486
Genre: Historical Fiction
Authors: Judith Arnopp, Cryssa Bazos, Anna Belfrage, Derek Birks, Helen Hollick, Amy Maroney, Alison Morton, Charlene Newcomb, Tony Riches, Mercedes Rochelle, Elizabeth St. John, Annie Whitehead

Synopsis

Betrayal, treachery, treason, deceit, perfidy—all names for the calculated violation of trust. And it’s been rife since humans trod the earth.

A promise broken
A mission betrayed

Night Train to Paris by Fliss Chester
Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication date: November 26th, 2020
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: ebook
Series: Fen Churche Mysteries, Book 2
Genre: Historical Fiction, Cozy Mystery

Synopsis

Meet Fen Churche, as she steps off the night train with the sun rising over Paris. Cat whisperer, crossword puzzler... accidental detective?

Autumn, 1945. Fen cannot wait to see her beloved godmother Rose, who has invited Fen to stay with her in the city of lights. As she arrives, Fen is dreaming of strolls by the Seine, taking tea at the Eiffel Tower and

Murder in the Snow by Verity Bright
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Publication date: November 19th, 2020
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: ebook
Series: Lady Eleanor Swift Mysteries, Book 4
Genre: Historical Fiction, Cozy Mystery

Synopsis

An English Christmas has mince pies, cheerful carols, a twinkling tree… and a murder? Thank goodness Lady Swift is on the scene!

Winter, 1920. Amateur sleuth Lady Eleanor Swift is feeling festive. She is playing host to the entire village at Henley Hall for gifts, games and gingerbread. She’s also purchased perfect presents for each of her household – not forgetting the biggest bone in the butcher’s shop for her partner in crime