historical fiction

This is a novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. It is the "story of those who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people."--inside book jacket.

When fourteen-year-old Benita's wealthy family goes bankrupt as a result of the Depression, they go from their luxurious life in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to a primitive island, with the wild scheme of starting a coconut plantation.

Returning to Mississippi after being raped in Chicago, Cora Harvey immediately marries her local sweetheart, but her marriage is shortlived when she gives birth to baby Emma, who is unmistakably white, which forces Emma to grow up amidst prejudice and rejection and eventually, flee to New York to pass for white, and Emma's daugher Parris must delve into the dark secrets of the past to bring her family back together.

In a novel set in the Southwest during 1915, a silversmith named Laughing Boy falls in love with an "educated" Navajo woman at a ceremonial dance, sparking a relationship that will reveal the deep rhythms and longing of Navajo life.

Hadrian's Wall has maintained the security of the Roman Empire's northern outpost for more than two hundred years. Now a Roman bride has come who will unleash jealousy, passion, and an epic war that will shake a tired and tottering empire to its core.

A Union general is murdered while recruiting Irish immigrants. His confessed assassin dies "of cholera" before he can be questioned. In defiance of the local priest, a stubborn investigator opens the killer's grave--and finds the corpse of a young woman many weeks dead, whose identity lies shrouded in the struggle for Ireland's freedom.

A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia, came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children.