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A Ladies of the Revolution Novel - an Editorial Review of "Patriot of the Lowcountry"
Book Blurb: “Amid the desolation, the woman of Carolina exhibited an example of more than masculine fortitude…Far from being offended at the name of rebel ladies, they esteemed it as a title for distinction and glory.” —Eliza Yonge Wilkinson Eliza is no stranger to both privilege and heartbreak. Widowed at eighteen, she gained self-sufficiency while managing one of her father’s plantations. Now, at age twenty-two, marauding Redcoats destroy her home and hard-won independence.
DK Marley
1 day ago5 min read
Return to Salem, Not as History, But as a Mirror - an Editorial Review of "A Name Unbroken"
Book Blurb: In 1692, Susannah North Martin was hanged during the Salem witch trials. Three centuries later, one of her descendants faces a different kind of trial—growing up under the weight of religious condemnation and queer erasure. A Name Unbroken braids these stories across time to reveal how fear misjudges difference across generations, and how the refusal to be false to oneself can become an act of survival. Blending lyrical first-person narrative, documentary fragment
DK Marley
3 days ago4 min read
My Kind Refuses to Die Out - an Editorial Review of "M"
Book Blurb: Coming soon! Book Buy Link: Coming soon! Editorial Review: Title: M Author: Judi Lamble Rating: 4.4 "M" by Judi Lamble is a riveting historical adventure novel that follows a Jewish girl named Miryam (later called “M”) who is born at sea while her family flees the Inquisition in Portugal. She grows up in Madeira and Brazil, survives wars, famine, and betrayal, becomes a pirate and privateer in the Caribbean, loses her husband to murder, has her young daughter kidn
DK Marley
4 days ago3 min read
A Poignant Tale of Loss and the Enduring Ties of Family - an Editorial Review of "No Man's Land"
Book Blurb: In the sweeping third installment of This Hallowed Ground, Donna E. Lane continues her powerful generational saga with a poignant tale of loss, legacy, and the enduring ties of family. When a tragedy claims their parents’ lives in New Zealand, brothers Fin, Buck, and Ian are uprooted and sent halfway across the world to live with their grandparents, Mac and Ester, on a quiet farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Grieving and disoriented, the boys struggle t
DK Marley
6 days ago5 min read
A Strong Balkan Woman Hiding Her Identity - an Editorial Review of "Sirma"
Book Blurb: For the lovers of strong female leads, based on true historical events. 19th-century Eastern Europe. Sirma's world is shattered to pieces when she bears witness to the abuse and murder of her two best friends by a gang of mountain outlaws. The village elders do nothing because they fear the wrath of Hamza Bei. Not long after, the same outlaws raid Sirma's village, and she is fed up with keeping quiet. She disguises herself as a man and takes the lead of her own ga
DK Marley
Apr 295 min read
The Women Who Helped Win the American Revolution - an Editorial Review of "Bella's Tales of History: Remember the Ladies"
Book Blurb: The Untold Stories of the Women Who Helped Win the American Revolution Warm, thoughtful, and deeply rooted in primary-source history, Remember the Ladies restores the women of the Revolution to their rightful place in the story of America. When Freddy the Puppy tells his sisters they can't play “Revolution” because the Revolution was just for boys, their wise Momma Bella has a few things to say about that. Join golden retriever Bella and her puppies Abby, Emma, an
DK Marley
Apr 286 min read
Divided Loyalties on the Early American Frontier - an Editorial Review of "Tinker"
Book Blurb: For readers of Outlander and Stephanie Dray, Tinker is a propulsive Whiskey Rebellion tale of defiance and rebellion, love, and divided loyalties on the early American frontier. Pittsburgh, 1794. The people of western Pennsylvania suffer under a hefty tax on whiskey. When the local militia takes up arms against the hated tax collector, his estranged daughter finds herself caught in the crossfire. Her safety threatened and her name in tatters, Caroline Neville begs
DK Marley
Apr 226 min read
A Gripping WWII Historical Novel of Sacrifice and Moral Clarity - an Editorial Review of "Only Breath and Shadow"
Book Blurb: Only Breath & Shadow: in the atmospheric world of 1930s Vienna, Only Breath & Shadow is the final instalment of Andrew Tweeddale’s Castle Drogo series. Blending meticulous historical fact with a heart-pounding fictional narrative, this novel is perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See or Robert Harris's Munich and literary historical fiction exploring the humanitarian efforts of the Kindertransport . Unique Blind Perspective - The story
DK Marley
Apr 126 min read
Spiritual Elements Arise from a Prehistoric Worldview - an Editorial Review of "Singing Bones"
Book Blurb: Nearly 8,300 years ago, a sudden climate collapse reshaped the earth. Winters grew longer and colder, harvests failed, coastlines flooded, and the ground itself became unstable. For the Téuta, a settled Neolithic village that had endured for generations, survival became uncertain. Eini is born with troubling visions of disaster—warnings her people dismiss as superstition. As the climate worsens and violence spreads among desperate neighbors, Eini spends her lifeti
DK Marley
Apr 115 min read
Family Secrets Unravel in the Shadow of the Pyramids - an Editorial Review of "Records of a Voyage"
Book Blurb: "This historical mystery is compelling from the very first line." – Independent Book Review "Records of a Voyage is a moving story spanning the years 1885 to 1936. It shows how family secrets can have lasting effects over generations, and the social challenges that women faced during that era." – Readers' Favorite From the cotton mills of Lancashire to the sands of Egypt, Records of a Voyage tells the story of one family’s unraveling secrets. In 1885, Sara Ann Ar
DK Marley
Apr 105 min read
One Woman Protects Pirate Gold in Manhattan's Profitable Shadows - an Editorial Review of "The Willow"
Book Blurb: Manhattan, 1712. By day, Abigail Spragg is a respectable businesswoman living along Manhattan's Hudson River. By night, she guards one of the colony’s most dangerous secrets—the Pirate Bank, a hidden vault beneath her home where the plunder of the world’s most feared pirates lies buried in silence. For years, the bloodstained wealth has haunted her investments. Now, it calls her to action. A letter arrives from the vanished pirate king himself—“Long Ben.” Better k
DK Marley
Apr 86 min read
It is 1942 and America is Under Seige - an Editorial Review of "Wolves at the Gate: Guerilla War"
Book Blurb: The year is 1942 and America is under siege. After invading the Hawaiian Islands and South Carolina, the Axis are on the move. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s panzer army blitzes north to capture Washington D.C. and force a United States surrender, while the Japanese land on the west coast to make their own territorial claims on America. Guerrillas rise up against the invaders, buying General George Patton’s Third Army time to prepare a desperate counterattack. The i
DK Marley
Apr 75 min read
A Time Traveler Upsets the Court of Henry VIII - an Editorial Review of "Time Agents"
Book Blurb: The popular award-winning Time Agents series continues!! When rogue time jumper Muriel O’Hanlan accidentally lands in England in 1525, she knows it won't be easy to survive through the winter while she waits for the next lightning storm to jump out again. Once she catches the eye of Henry VIII, the stakes only go higher. Arriving in the midst of Henry’s dissatisfaction with Queen Katherine of Aragon, but before Anne Boleyn steals his heart, the beautiful Muriel co
DK Marley
Apr 66 min read
An Explosive Tale of Twisted Loyalties in Postwar London - an Editorial Review of "Murder & Masquerade"
Book Blurb: An explosive tale of conspiracy, betrayal and twisted loyalties in postwar London. London, 1946. The war is over — but not the danger. Irish policeman and former resistance leader Brendan O’Connor thought his battles ended with the fall of the Reich. But when a deadly fascist plot surfaces, threatening Britain’s fragile democracy, he’s dragged back into the fight. Worse still, O’Connor’s reluctant partner is a man he hates: a former SS general, now granted immunit
DK Marley
Apr 56 min read
Into the Wilds of Rural Sonoma County - an Editorial Review of "Occidental: a Town Divided"
Book Blurb: Christopher Thomassen Folkmann defects from the U.S. Navy, evading his pursuers and escaping into the wilds of rural Sonoma County. With the new alias of Dutch Bill Howard, he seeks control of a meadow amidst a redwood forest, going up against lumberman Boss Meeker. The fight never lets up during the second half of the nineteenth century with the establishment of Occidental and Howards, two towns sitting side-by-side, divided by a fence and bad blood. Railroaders,
DK Marley
Apr 46 min read
The Tale of an American Revolutionary Soldier - an Editorial Review of "In the Hot Fight"
Book Blurb: Let tyrants shake their iron rod, And Slav'ry clank her galling chains, We fear them not, we trust in God, New England's God forever reigns. William Billings -- Chester From completely unknown and unrenowned author, Robert Masters, comes the 'memoir' of Jonas Newton Belknap, common, ordinary soldier of the American revolution. If you like war stories, Jonas has plenty to tell, including how he lost his innocence to a 'bad' woman in the military camp at Cambridge,
DK Marley
Apr 38 min read
Crossing Oceans Disguised as a Boy - an Editorial Review of "Sailing Against the Tide"
Book Blurb: She crossed oceans disguised as a boy. History forgot her-but now her story demands to be told. In 1766, Jeanne Baret, a brilliant herbalist from rural France, defied every expectation of her time. Disguised as a boy to escape the restrictions placed on women. She joins a global expedition led by explorer Louis de Bougainville and her mentor, the botanist Philibert Commerson. Aboard L'Étoile, Jeanne faces grueling sea voyages, the constant threat of discovery, and
DK Marley
Mar 316 min read
Revealing the Life of a Forgotten Woman - an Editorial Review of "The Venetian Lady of Skradin"
Book Blurb: Her name was Catarina Dandolo Šubić — a Venetian noblewoman who crossed the Adriatic in the fourteenth century to become the Lord’s Lady of Skradin, a river town in Croatia. Her life, nearly forgotten by history, unfolds here for the first time in centuries. Born in the Republic of Venice, shaped by life in the towns of Dalmatia, and forged in Croatia beside her husband, Catarina grew into her role as a noblewoman and a partner in rule. Yet even as she did, the fo
DK Marley
Mar 195 min read
A Thrilling San Francisco Murder Mystery - an Editorial Review of "The Twisted Road" by A. B. Michaels
Book Blurb: Jonathan Perris Can’t Save His Clients…Until He Saves Himself 1907 Rising from the devastation of a massive earthquake and fire, San Francisco is once again on the move. But a strike by streetcar drivers threatens to halt the Golden City in its tracks. Protests turn to violence and violence leads to death. Soon a young guard is convicted of willfully killing a protester and the public is out for blood. Jonathan Perris, an immigrant attorney from England, has opene
DK Marley
Mar 186 min read
Memories of Sicily Into the Heart of America - an Editorial Review of "My Sicilian Father"
Book Blurb: My Sicilian Father is a sweeping, multi-generational historical novel that traces the odyssey of a Sicilian immigrant family as they navigate the trials, triumphs, and transformations of 20th century America. Beginning in the sun-drenched hills of Sicily, where olive groves and stone villages whisper of centuries of tradition, the narrative follows a proud patriarch who leaves behind his ancestral homeland in search of opportunity across the Atlantic. His journey
DK Marley
Mar 148 min read