historical fiction

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My lady of Cleves

a novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
2008
A fictional account of Tudor England, centering on the life of Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

Threads of silk

2008
Rachelle Macquinet, a couturiere from one of France's most celebrated silk-making families, struggles to keep her eyes on God when Queen Mother Catherine de Medici tries to implicate her beloved husband Fabien in an assassination plot.

Daughter of silk

2006
Rachelle Dusbane-Macquinet accompanies her grandmother, a famous couturiere, to Paris to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois, and becomes caught up in the intrigue at the Court, risking her life to warn the handsome Marquis Fabien de Vendome of a wicked plot against his family concocted by the regent, Catherine de Medici.

The rebels' hour

2008
Assani leaves his work as a cowherd in a remote eastern village to attend school in the city, and soon finds himself drafted into the Congolese army, where he faces violence, corruption, and his own guilt as he is forced to take sides in the bloody conflict that follows the genocide in Rwanda.

Saga

a novel of medieval Iceland
2005
A retelling of the thirteenth-century "Saga of the People of Eyri", in which settlers from Norway bring their savage rituals of feud and sacrifice to Iceland.

Odinn's child

2005
Thorgils Leifsson, the orphan son of an Irish noblewoman with second sight, is raised in Iceland and Greenland by mentors who teach him the ancient ways and warn him of an invasion by a White Christ, and when the prophecy seems to be coming true, Thorgils must use all his skill to protect himself and his land.

Claire by moonlight

2005
As Claire finds herself drawn to red coat Sam Douglass she begins to fear he may be a spy intent on destroying her family and wonders if she should trust her own feelings or the rumors her brother whispers in her ear.

Sarah

a novel
2004
Presents a novel based on the life of the Old Testament character Sarah, the daughter of a powerful lord who employs drastic measures in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage and whose actions lead her give up her exalted life to join Abram, a member of a nomadic tribe and follower of the one true God.

Tree of hope

2001
Florrie's daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Welles reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.

Enemy women

2003
After the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and taking her widowed father away, Adair Colley sets out on foot with her two young sisters hoping to find a safe haven in the winter mountains.

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