historical fiction

Ten-year-old Jeremy, a drummer boy, and Dulcie, a runaway slave who hopes to become "contraband" of the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment, become friends and form an unlikely alliance with Charlie, young Confederate soldier, and each helps the others learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom.

Lady Kiera Darby is in Scotland in 1831. After a tumultuous courtship she is thrilled to have found an investigative partner and a fiance in Sebastian Gage. When she is commissioned to paint the portrait of Lady Drummond, Kiera sees the sadness in her eyes. And then one day she finds Lady Drummond on the floor. The doctor and Lord Drummond appear satisfied that her death is natural. But Kiera is not so sure---she suspects poison. But can she prove it and not imperil her own life?.

Bridget Sullivan, a maid in the Borden household, describes the events leading up to the murder of Andrew Borden and his second wife, and how the youngest daughter, Lizzie, was put on trial for the crime.

In a reverse twist on the Robin Hood story, a young medieval maiden stands up for the rights of the mistreated, stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but she never anticipates falling in love with the wealthy knight who represents all she's come to despise.

When Union soldier Caitlin McKae wakes up in Atlanta wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor believes her only secret is that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta, thus creating a new secret to hide. Trained as a teacher, she accepts a job as a governess for the daughter of Noah Becker, a German immigrant lawyer who enlists with the Rebel army to defend his homeland against Sherman's army.

When the novel opens, the shabby carpet of 221B Baker Street is drenched in blood--and no one knows the fate of Mary Russell...including her husband Sherlock Holmes. Will his wife become his latest mystery? And will he be able to solve it without her help?.

Fourteen-year-old Augustus Pelletier joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition after the death of his mother and captures the excitement and danger of the journey in his journal.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Native Americans teach him their skills.