Begins in blood and ends in fire, Nine Lives of Sadie Briar traces one woman’s quietly heroic journey through an American century. From an Indian raid on the Kansas frontier in 1869 when she’s briefly taken captive as a baby to Christmas Eve 1968 when she witnesses man first orbit the moon, Sadie experiences an […]

Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn’t about to let the friend who saved his life go down in a range war. But when Kilkenny tries to stop the fighting, he finds there’s more at stake than land or wire. Whoever is stirring up trouble has big ideas for the Live Oak […]

This Depression-era historical novel follows a young woman who opens a pie shop in small-town Ohio while building the family she never had. Lila Young arrives in Lima, Ohio, determined to leave heartbreak behind and create a future of her own. More than a successful pie shop, she longs for something she’s never truly had, […]

A mother’s final plea. A boy’s reason to survive. Romania, 1941. Thirteen-year-old Max Tarnauceanu was always a bit of a spoiled child, living an idyllic childhood in the small town of Noua Suliță. But his world is completely shattered when the Nazis rise to power in Germany. First, his father is taken by the police, […]

It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers, one white, one Black, who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of […]

Florence, 1563. Forbidden from practicing her herbal cures in Venice, the young noblewoman Bianca Capello flees to Florence, where the ruling Medici family practices alchemy. There, she wins herself an invitation to their palace, and, as it turns out, a path to the duke regent Francesco’s bed. The impassioned bond between Francesco de Medici and […]

In 1870s Scotland, Christian Maclagan, one of Britain’s first female archaeologists, struggles for recognition in a world determined to silence her. Encouraged by her acquisition of a rare Neolithic carved stone ball, she becomes obsessed with unlocking its ancient secrets. But as she studies the mysterious artifact, she begins to experience disturbing dreams. When she […]

Stories and poems of love, survival, and life after the Holocaust. An anthropologist who studies the Amazon headhunters chooses an unorthodox method of coping with his dwindling career; a once un-attractive physical therapist reunited, in a most surprising and intimate way, with a wounded soldier who humiliated her in high school; and in the titular […]

To reclaim what the Nazis stole, she must face what she tried to forget. Paris, 1940. Nicole Cassin is a Jewish teenager living above her family’s art gallery when the Nazis occupy the city. Overnight, everything is taken: her home, her security, her future, and Nicole is forced to grow up fast. As Paris sinks […]