historical fiction

The ambitious prior of Kingsbridge, England, dreams of building the greatest Gothic cathedral in the world, and the struggle to construct it leads to a battle between good and evil in twelfth-century England.

Eighty-two-year-old Marina Buriakov, preparing for her granddaughter's wedding in Seattle, finds it more and more difficult to hold onto memories in the present, retreating often to the 1940s when, living in the basement of the Hermitage Museum with other employees during the German siege of Leningrad, she created a memory room in her mind furnished with the museum's priceless masterpieces.

Based on a true story, Tania is a young sniper recruited by the Soviet Union to seek out and assassinate German officers. He is chosen to lead a handpicked unit to seize the commander of the invading army during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.

As world war and the looming Russian Revolution threaten all they hold dear, Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, and her family are being held in captivity, where she falls in love with one of their guards, a young man who has espoused the ideals of Lenin.

Rebecca, granddaughter of the recently deceased Esther Gottsfeld, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, looks for answers to some of the questions and inconsistencies in her grandmother's accounts of the famous conflagration, while being hounded by a persistent historian who believes Esther was not telling the whole truth.

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.

Nadya, a kitchen girl in a Russian tavern, has no memory of her past since nearly drowning in the Iset River during the Revolution, until two young men arrive with news that her grandmother summoned them to find her.

Amabelle, a Haitian woman who has grown up as a servant in the home of Dominicans, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, and together they try to weather the storms of persecution against their people.

A father and his eighteen-year-old son are each affected differently by their experiences as slaves in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.