historical fiction

In an effort to escape a dreary future, eighteen-year-old Emmy Nelson breaks off her engagement with an abusive fiance and takes a job as a cub reporter, bringing her into contact with the contentious politics and racism that are plaguing her 1950s Minnesota hometown.

In 1823, frontiersman Hugh Glass of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company is mauled nearly to death by a grizzly bear. Abandoned by his peers, Glass fights back from death and sets out across uncharted American territory battling human and animal predators as well as starvation and infection to get revenge.

It's 1830, and Jamie Pyke is living comfortably as a Philadelphia aristocrat when an old promise draws him back to the South and back to his muddy past. A child of a plantation master and his kitchen slave, Jamie thought he abandoned his old identity forever, but a quest to save his young friend Pan uncovers Jamie's past, putting both their lives at risk. Jamie, Pan, and Sukey, another escaped slave, must navigate the Underground Railroad and make their leap to lasting freedom.

After the last peal of the midnight bell fades on St. Mark's Eve--the time when it is said ghosts of those who will die in the next year can be seen--Connie Giffords, daughter of a disgraced taxidermist who once had a famous museum of taxidermy in their Blackthorn House, discovers the body of a stranger she had noticed alive near the church. In the following days, Connie gets strange glimpses into vanished years which reveal more about the mystery woman, whose death has affected Connie much more than is reasonable--unless she is someone more important to Blackthorn House than Connie has realized.

Addie Baum, born in Boston in 1900 to immigrant parents, reflects on her life experiences, including her childhood, her teenage years, her first love affair, her career as a newspaper typist, and the pursuit of her dreams.

Living in a reputedly haunted house outside of Rochester, NY, the Fox sisters one day communicated with the spirit of a murder victim. This event led to the rise of the Spiritualism Movement which found the Fox sisters performing seances in front of hundreds. A historical fiction novel based on the rise and fall of the most famous mediums of the nineteenth century.

Mary Bullitt, a strong-willed young Southern belle, is married off to the much older General Henry Atkinson, and moves with him to an outpost in Missouri where she learns a very different way of life.

Ruby Lennox narrates the story of her life, beginning at the moment of her conception in 1951 through her mother's death in 1992.

Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.

In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.