Based on one woman’s incredible real life. Born an indentured servant and bound by slavery for the first twenty-one years of her life, Dinah Clark ultimately earned her freedom, married, had children, bought a house, and mastered the arduous work of a sawyer. Her profession, unusual for a woman at the time, sustained her following […]

Step into 1863 Memphis, where the occupied city seethes with tensions, and dangerous secrets. When a Union officer turns up dead in a shadowy alley, Elias Aronson, a sharp-witted Manhattan lawyer serving as aide-de-camp at Fort Pickering, is ordered to uncover the truth. But in a city where lies flow as freely as whiskey, neither […]

In spring 1874, the American economy is descending into a depression, following the collapse of Jay Cooke’s financial empire. Amid the chain of bank and business failures set off by Cooke’s bankruptcy, Jubilee Walker struggles to keep Warner and Walker Outfitters solvent. Jubil’s grand plans for developing Yellowstone National Park into a popular tourist destination […]

Lena thought she had survived the worst of the war. But her heart and courage are about to be tested again. 1946, Cyprus. After surviving the devastation of war, all Lena Weiss wants is to leave Europe and start over. Yet her dream of a new life is soon shattered, as the ship that would […]

The year was 1881, an’ young Ruben Beeler was makin’ his way along near the Missouri River, findin’ work when he could an’ livin’ the only life he knew. When he come on ol’ Arliss Hyatt, beat to hell an’ near shot to death, Rube done what he could for him. He didn’t know that […]

The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando De Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty battle-hardened conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood-plains of eastern Arkansas. Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition […]

Young Richard of Gloucester has returned to his brother King Edward’s court after training in the household of the Earl of Warwick. Quickly the young man finds himself caught up in court intrigues: the famous Smithfield Joust, the Woodvilles’ theft of Thomas Cook’s tapestries, the killing of the Earl of Desmond in dubious circumstances. He […]