Cherokee America
by Published in 2019 WRITTEN BY MARGARET VERBLEREVIEW BY KATIE STINE For some, the idea that the United States government enveloped sovereign nations sounds strange. But this novel …
A Search for Peace: Ann Weisgarber’s The Glovemaker
Published in February 2019 issue of The Historical Novel Review The poorly-defined middle ground Our world is neither black nor white, which might be why …
A Sinner Without A Saint (The Penningtons)
Published in 2018 WRITTEN BY BLISS BENNET REVIEW BY KATIE STINE In this stand-alone Regency romance novel, fourth in the Pennington Series, the world of the art collector …
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score: Seducing the Sedgwicks
Published 2018 WRITTEN BY CAT SEBASTIAN REVIEW BY KATIE STINE An interracial gay Regency romance (fun to say at parties), A Gentleman Never Keeps Score is the second in the …
Confessions of the Fox
Published 2018 WRITTEN BY JORDY ROSENBERG REVIEW BY KATIE STINE Confessions of the Fox is ostensibly set in 1713-1724, following Jack Sheppard, thief and lover extraordinaire. But, is it? …
Road to Newgate
Published 2018 WRITTEN BY KATE BRAITHWAITE REVIEW BY KATIE STINE Suspicion and religion are intertwined in London in 1678, a little over a decade after the Great Fire …
The Removes
Published 2018 WRITTEN BY TATJANA SOLI REVIEW BY KATIE STINE In the late 19th century, General Armstrong Custer embodied the mixed feelings of Manifest Destiny in the United …
Kiss of the Spindle
Published in 2018 WRITTEN BY NANCY CAMPBELL ALLEN REVIEW BY KATIE STINE The titular Sleeping Beauty in this fairy tale retelling set in the steampunk version of Victorian …
The Dutch Wife
Published 2018 WRITTEN BY ELLEN KEITH REVIEW BY KATIE STINE In 1943, a Dutch woman, Marijke, is arrested with her husband in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. They are both sent …
Peculiar Ground
Published 2017 WRITTEN BY LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT REVIEW BY KATIE STINE Set in both the 1660s and the 1960s, this debut novel explores the workings of a fictional English …