historical fiction

Simon Malmain, chief enforcer of the Guardian Council, which oversees the use of magic in eighteenth-century Britain, is turned into a unicorn after a run-in with Lord Drayton, but he is luckily freed by Meg, a servant in Drayton's household, who then unites with Malmain in an attempt to keep the rogue mage from enacting a plan to keep the Industrial Age from happening.

In 1942, a French pilot and a nurse begin a passionate affair that they know will be short lived; and when the pilot is sent to Siberia, they each wonder if they will ever find one another again.

Sets two illicit love affairs--between an Englishman and an Indian Muslim, and between their divorced granddaughter and a young Zanzibari--against the backdrop of colonial Zanzibar in 1899 and in the 1950s, just before independence.

Presents a historical novel about Hannibal, the legendary military leader of Carthage and his struggle against the superior armies of Rome and traces the origins of the war and Hannibal's choice to follow a land route to Rome.

In seventeenth-century Madrid, freelancing swordsman Diego Alatriste, a captain forced into retirement by an injury in the Flemish wars, is hired to kill two mysterious Englishmen but, at the secret request of one of his employers, only wounds them, unaware that their survival will shape the future of his country and of Europe.

Presents an historical fiction featuring Elizabeth Tudor who sets out to learn who is out to destroy her royal portraits and threatening her life.

Presents a novel set in ancient Egypt that features Semerket, who is summoned by authorities to investigate the murder of an insignificant priestess; however, the truth may very well jeopardize the life of the Pharaoh Ramses III.

When an Amish baby is murdered, the members of the child's close-knit community find themselves torn apart by grief, guilt, and suspicion.

In eleventh-century Japan, Sugawara Akitada returns to Heian Kyo and his mother's sickbed, where he is soon pulled into his family's complicated lives when he is asked to clear his brother-in-law of a crime.

Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.