Book Blurb: When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death. Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around her. As antisemitism tightens its grip and war edges ever closer, Jetti holds fast to her daughter, Berta, with the fragile belief that love and courage might still car

Book Blurb: Coming soon! Book Buy Link: Follow the author for this release at www.alicemcveigh.com Author Bio: Alice McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by UK's Unbound in speculative fiction (writing as Spaulding Taylor) and by Warleigh Hall Press in historical fiction. Her books have been in the last seven for the UK Selfies Book Award (2024), been a runner-up for Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year" and joint runner-up in Writers Digest Int

Book Blurb: Coming soon Book Buy Link: Follow the author at www.utterloonacy.com Author Bio: Susannah Willey is the award-winning author of War Sonnets (JUL 2023, Utter Loonacy Press). Awarded a five star “award of excellence” by the Historical Fiction Company, War Sonnets was also awarded third place in the General Fiction Category of its 2022 Book of the Year awards. Susannah Willey was born in 1952 in the small town of Ira, New York where her family settled over 200 years

Book Blurb: In 1860, just a year after Drake's historic first oil well, photographer John Mather arrived in Titusville, Pennsylvania, determined to capture the burgeoning oilfields, one glass negative at a time. From his makeshift darkrooms – one on a creek barge, another strapped to his wagon – he risked life and limb to preserve the history of the nascent petroleum industry. General Charles Miller, alongside his wife, Adelaide, tirelessly cultivated relationships with the t

Book Blurb: "A haunting tale of vengeance, survival and revolution - Powell's heroine grips you by the throat and never lets go" Chris Riches, Daily Express " Vivid, visceral, unforgettable. Powell's masterful storytelling plunges us into the heart of revolutionary Paris" Will Barker, The Sun Exiled to a Caribbean island, Paoletta Cadoville and her family cling to the hope of one day returning to their Parisian home. But in a single, devastating moment, that dream is shattere

BOOK EXCERPT Setting the Scene: Herb’s uranium-prospecting Geiger counter went off when Edith placed a glass of milk on the kitchen table...

BOOK EXCERPT Opening: “Hannah!” Dylan calls. “Hannah?” A shiver of worry runs up my spine. He never uses my real name. “Here! I’m in the...

BOOK EXCERPT: Prologue: Two Oaths The Chapel, Alcobaça Abbey, Portugal Lent 1361 Mystified by the abbot’s intransigence, he paused to study the cleric. One explanation made sense. The abbot suspected his motive and gave credence to the scandalmongers’ whispers. Anger surged through King Pedro. “The court fool sings a ditty as he dances a jig, implying the crown will skip the Infante Ferdinand. Do you truly imagine I would kill my son to favor the boys of Inês?” Rolling his ne

Book Blurb: A colossal inheritance affords Lord Henri-Antoine every indulgence. His is a life of aristocratic opulence and privilege. A world away, on the mean streets of 1780s London, Miss Lisa Crisp relies on charity to keep her from the poorhouse. Such vastly different lives mean Lisa and Henri-Antoine should never meet. Yet they do. And in a most startling way. One Henri-Antoine would prefer to forget. Yet he cannot forget Lisa. When they find themselves attending the sam

BOOK EXCERPT The carriage drove on, almost silently, the padded wheels making soft noises in the grass and autumn leaves. There had not yet been any snow. Everything was black; every shining part of the harness was covered; the coachman was dressed in dull black. Four cloaked figures sat inside, a young woman dressed in deepest mourning, her face buried in her handkerchief, and, huddled next to her, were three little girls. A single small trunk sat behind them. “Mama,” the el

BOOK EXCERPT At Jessie’s Wedding Jessie plopped down beside her and linked arms, snuggling in to Margaret’s side. Jessie’s free hand slid...

BOOK EXCERPT The plague is rampant in Florence. This is a conversation between Carlo Roselli the owner of an apothecary shop and Franco...

BOOK EXCERPT Branwell, the only brother of the family and now thirty years old, has become an alcoholic and drug addict, in spite of the...

Book Blurb: Donora, Pennsylvania—December, 1923 It’s Christmastime and twenty-four-year-old Socialite, Wrenly Hawthorne, is teetering...

BOOK EXCERPT: Nathanial On Arriving At Maroons Camp Besides the people waiting here, more are coming. I’m the center of attention. People...

Book Blurb: In Nazi-occupied Paris, Juliette Durand plays a dangerous game. To the enemy, she is a quiet museum worker—obedient, invisible. In truth, each day she risks her life. One mistake could mean discovery—and death. Decades later, Alice’s beloved grandfather entrusts her with a dying wish. Alice sets out for Paris, intrigued to learn more about Juliette Durand—the enigmatic woman he mentioned only in his final days. As Alice follows the fragile threads of Juliette’s li

BOOK EXCERPT Theodemir thanked Lubbo and made his way down to the riverbank where a large age-bent white willow trailed it branches over...

In 1792, an escaped slave, raised and living as white, is discovered and forced to flee into the Great Dismal Swamp. Barely escaping a...

Barbara Josselsohn is a best-selling novelist and journalist who loves crafting stories about strong protagonists facing a fork in the...