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REVIEW of Freedom’s Light by Colleen Coble
When Hannah Thomas’ lighthouse keeper husband joins up with the American Revolutionaries, it’s not long before Hannah is left a young widow. Ostracized by the Puritan community in New England, Hannah pours herself into the lighthouse, keeping the coast safe for Patriot vessels. When her sister Lydia comes to keep her company, the foolish girl…
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REVIEW of The Captured Bride, by Michelle Griep
Mercy Lytton’s sharp eyes can see farther into the wilderness than any other scout’s. Half white, half Mohawk, She’s been chosen, along with two other English scouts, to take a wagon load of gold to an English fort through a forest rife with French and Indians. They’ll travel in company with a traitor, Elias Dubois,…
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REVIEW of Chasing the Wind (California Rising #3), by Paula Scott
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REVIEW of Far Side of the Sea (California Rising #2), by Paula Scott
Maria Vasquez has always heard voices in her head–dark voices telling her that she is a curse to everyone around her, sinister voices telling her that she is nothing but a bringer of death. At the end of the first California Rising book, Maria was abducted by a rich landowner obsessed with her beauty. In…
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REVIEW of Until the Day Breaks (California Rising #1), by Paula Scott
When Rachel Tyler sails around Cape Horn to join her father in California, she finds a new home simmering with tension and unease. Revolution is in the air and the question of whether California will join the United States or forge its own destiny. Eager to increase his own influence, Rachel’s father betroths her to…
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REVIEW of The Shadow Palace (The House of Closed Doors #3), by Jane Steen
In this third book in The House of Closed Doors series, Nell makes her way to Chicago with Sarah and Tess in tow. Thanks to the investments Martin has made in her behalf, she is an independent woman, with finances to maintain a comfortable establishment of her own. She longs to see the palatial Rutherford’s department store…
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REVIEW of Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors #2), by Jane Steen
In this sequel to The House of Closed Doors, Nell Lillington leaves the Poor Farm with her infant daughter Sarah and friend Tess and journeys to Kansas where they hope to make a new life for themselves. Nell is hired as a seamstress for Eternal Light Seminary, the one stone building in a land of sod…
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REVIEW of Between Earth and Sky, by Amanda Skenandore
Alma’s father is the proud principal of Stover, a school for Indian children to cure them from their savagery and integrate them into the white man’s society. From a young age, Alma grows up as the only white student at Stover, doing her best to palliate the stern indoctrination of the teachers and eventually earning…
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REVIEW of Behind the Scenes, by Jen Turano
All Permilia Griswold wants is to help manage her father’s mining business. Unfortunately, he is convinced that she would be happier learning to become a lady and has provided her with a stepmother to achieve just that experience. Permilia’s performance in society is a sore disappointment to her stepmother, however. Her awkward ways and complete…
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REVIEW of The English Wife, by Lauren Willig
The place is New York, the time is just before the turn of the 19th century, and the crime is the murder of Society favorite Bayard van Duyvil and disappearance of his wife Annabelle. When Bay brought Annabelle over from England five years ago, they seemed to have a fairy tale romance, but now ugly…
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