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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
A Test of Courage in a Country Tearing Itself Apart - an Editorial Review of "The Woman Who Drew a War"
Book Blurb: She survived a war by drawing it. The cost was everything else. Pulled from an ordinary life into the violent undercurrents of a nation at war, Isabella’s rare talent for drawing becomes both her refuge and her danger. What begins as a means of survival soon draws her into a hidden world of secret commissions, shifting loyalties, and constant risk, where a single sketch can mean protection, betrayal, or death. As armed conflict spreads, Isabella is forced to move
DK Marley
Feb 265 min read
The Scars We Earn, the Homes We Build - an Editorial Review of "Delivering Apple Pie"
Book Blurb: "A kaleidoscopic tale set around World War II with an international cast of characters. Intrigue and color abound… this is well-researched fiction and the scenes feel authentic. A finely detailed war novel with an outsize cast." - Kirkus Reviews Delivering Apple Pie interweaves the lives of several fictional characters between 1940 and 1963, from the war in the Pacific into postwar suburbia and the baby boom. Claire forges a strong personal identity during WW2 in
DK Marley
Feb 225 min read
The Axis Rules in an Alternate WWII - an Editorial Review of "Wolves at the Gate"
Book Blurb: Lieutenant Jim Fraser was, in turns, eager and terrified. His Baker Company led the American offensive to liberate Charleston, but would his wife, Florrie, and their twin girls trapped behind German lines survive the coming battle? Wolves at the Gate is the first of a series of three alternative history thrillers from Bart Stark imagining another World War II. Due to a twist of history during his youth, Adolf Hitler turns west and out to sea against England and t
DK Marley
Feb 215 min read
The Fight for Freedom is Far From Over - an Editorial Review of "Caritas"
Book Blurb: In this powerful conclusion to the Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy, Caritas brings this epic and emotional journey full circle—following the critically acclaimed books, Libertas and Firmitas, praised as “historical fiction at a stellar level.” — 1846 — Horace and Fredericka have escaped slavery and endured the punishing journey of the Oregon Trail, but their fight for freedom is far from over. The West offers no refuge, only new threats amidst the turmoil of the Whit
DK Marley
Jan 75 min read
The Real Rhythm of Rural Life During WWI - an Editorial Review of "One Summer at Helgeveld Farm"
Book Blurb: In 1949, Will Parlor glimpses a woman across a crowded Chicago street and is carried back to the summer that changed him forever. In 1917, at seventeen, he took a job as a worker on an Illinois farm. There, he’s drawn into the Dutch-American Helgeveld family, especially daughters Vlinder and Corrie. Will also befriends Moses and Isaiah Butler, African American brothers up from Alabama, seeking freedom and opportunity in an America still rumbling after the Civil Wa
DK Marley
Dec 23, 20255 min read
Two Young People Engulfed by a World War - an Editorial Review of "Both Sides of the Pond"
Book Blurb: In January of 1939 when Barbara Greene, a beautiful and successful young British actress, met Joe Kennedy Jr., son of the American Ambassador, she could not have expected that their relationship would lead to her emigrating to America and piloting a plane around the eastern states to publicize Bundles for Britain, let alone her hasty decision to marry an American. Nor could her brother, Kent, have foreseen his bitter retreat from Dunkirk when he left England in Ja
DK Marley
Dec 22, 20256 min read
Eight Men Behind Enemy Lines in WWII - an Editorial Review of "Silver Wings Falling Down"
Book Blurb: MISSING IN ACTION—EIGHT MEN BEHIND ENEMY LINES... After Pearl Harbor, W.T. Eaves swaps the West Texas oil fields for the skies, earning his silver wings as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps. While training in Galveston, the beautiful, dark-eyed Jean captures Eaves’ heart and they marry—just months before he’s sent to war. Called to aerial combat in the Fifteenth Air Force, Eaves and his B-24 crew run the gauntlet of flak and battle the Luftwaffe to deliver thei
DK Marley
Dec 20, 20255 min read
The Psychological Toll of War - an Editorial Review of "The Choice Within"
Book Blurb: Save. Kill. Live. Die. How much do I give? 1944 , and war rages in the Pacific. Two young recruits from opposing sides destined to cross paths without ever meeting, changing their lives forever… Honolulu —Devoted nurse Lieutenant Jeannette Crawford has been working tirelessly, with dedication and wisdom beyond her years, to help wounded US servicemen on home soil face their greatest enemy—time. Wanting to do more, she volunteers to serve on a hospital ship, hoping
DK Marley
Dec 19, 20256 min read