Historical Sagas

In the heart of Victorian England, amidst the grime and toil of the bustling mills, Katherine and her daughter Alice witness a brutal crime that shatters their world. Fleeing for their lives, they find refuge in the shadowed streets of Whitechapel, where the enigmatic Nathaniel Westford offers them sanctuary from their torment. As Katherine and Nathaniel's bond deepens, they find solace and love in each other's arms. But their newfound happiness is threatened when the dark spectre of the mill's foreman looms over Katherine once more. With Nathaniel's courageous intervention, they are thrust...

Philip Repington has been on an adventure. He is uninterested in settling down and taking responsibility for his place in the family. His father is a duke and one day, he will take his father's place. His family is large and he has been able to push his duties to others to make way for his decadent lifestyle. Caroline Hadley is a family friend, though it had been years since Philip had seen her. She had grown in to a lovely and charming young woman. Being near her brought memories of childhood joy that Philip had long forgotten. A quietly determined young woman, Caroline was unlike others ...

Three men; three vows. One vows to destroy Rome, another to protect it. A third swears to crush them both. This is the saga of Scipio Africanus, one of history's greatest generals. ROME, 210 BCE. The Roman Republic is on the cusp of a second war with the Carthaginian empire. In the midst of this conflict, three men arise to change the course of western history: Cato the Elder, Hannibal the Great, and Scipio Africanus. Born into a wealthy military family, Publius Cornelius Scipio is a young scholar who dreams of teaching Rome's commoners. But Scipio has promised his father that he will ...

'A beautifully crafted, emotionally gripping tale of love, resilience, and self-discovery. An unforgettable read!' Reader's House Magazine At eight months pregnant, Raine shouldn’t be on a jolting bus crawling through snow searching for her husband. He might not want to be found. She might not want to find him. When Raine Merrett’s beloved Pop falls ill, her family is forced to leave the peaceful countryside for a migrant camp on the flat plains outside post WW2 Adelaide. Life in the cramped Nissen hut is harsh, but Raine tackles her hated new life with gritty persistence. Teddy Greene,...

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery.

A mountain girl in the early 1900’s copes with a marriage arranged by her dad. Her story is titled from an old saying “I own my land, heaven-high and hell-deep.” “Your pa gave his consent for us to marry,” he said the words as though it was a simple matter. It wasn’t a romantic proposal of love and devotion. It wasn’t a proposal at all. I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I tried again. “I don’t know your name,” I managed to say as I felt my chest constrict. There was a pain in me that started at my toes and went to the roots of my hair. Dad had come up with a ...

In April of 1846, 21-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and 14 others set out for California on snowshoes and over the next 32 days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.

Call to Courage Book One in A Nurse’s Heart: The Evelyn Harrington Saga By Eleanor Ashcroft London, 1939. War is on the horizon, and the city braces itself for the unimaginable. When spirited country nurse Evelyn Harrington steps off the bus at St. Mary’s Hospital, she finds herself plunged into the chaos of a city under siege. Amidst the echo of air raid sirens and the growing tide of wounded soldiers, Evelyn must summon strength she never knew she possessed. With dwindling supplies, bomb-damaged wards, and lives hanging in the balance, she learns quickly that compassion is its own ...

Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman, Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the men who set our course for freedom. The Bastard is the first volume in the Kent Family Chronicles, a series of novels that details one family's journey in the early years of the American nation.

Hampshire, England, 1777: As Antonia’s world collapses around her, in swaggers a handsome stranger to completely upend her life. Little does she realize, this rugged merchant of mayhem is precisely what she needs.

“Historical fiction at its very finest!” ~ Readers’ Favorite In the turbulent landscape of 15th-century Scotland, Alexander of Islay, Lord of the Isles and heir to the earldom of Ross, welcomes King James home after a long captivity in England. Yet behind the façade of royal approval lies a web of treachery. Alexander’s father triumphed at the Battle of Harlaw, securing for his son the title Earl of Ross, but Alexander must navigate a perilous court where loyalty is a fleeting shadow if he is to keep it. The nobles defeated at Harlaw, threatened by Alexander’s growing power, ...

New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams.

Summer comes to Ireland, and an uneasy peace holds at Loch Garman. The Northmen, eager to get to sea, work relentlessly on their ships, with the aid of their unlikely allies, the Irish, who are just as eager to see them go. But not everyone is willing to just let them sail away. Certain that God demands the heathens be punished, the one-eyed warrior turned monk Brother Becc is determined that Thorgrim and his men will not simply go free. And when another band of raiders arrives, Becc finds the excuse he needs to take action.

The Great Calamity has returned, destroying all in his wake. Reeling from the destruction of King's Point and the death of his uncle, Elyon Daecar makes at once for Varinar to discern the state of the city. What he finds gives him small cause for hope. Through the spreading darkness, thin shards of light remain. They must act quickly lest they close forever. Saska's time in Aram has run out. With the city safe from the coalition of Lords Krator and Kastor, she sets her sights on her journey north, bidding her dying grandmother farewell. She has no choice now but to embrace her fate.

Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory.

Old sins cast long shadows. Overcoming years of hardship, Hungarian immigrant George Bodnár established a comfortable life for his family in America’s Gilded Age. When a unique opportunity opens for Lizzy, his remarkably talented daughter, George hopes it will lift her—and the entire family—further up the social ladder. Lizzy becomes a student at the best boarding school for girls in New York. She carries the world before her, gaining access to the opulent ballrooms and sumptuous parlors of the wealthy. Caught up in her studies and social life, Lizzy has no idea that they are leading...

Opposites attract. Appearances can deceive. A dashing and rugged façade hides the vulnerable man within. He will gamble with his life, but never his heart. Always the observer, never the observed, her fragility hides conviction. She will risk everything for love. One fateful night they collide. The attraction is immediate, the consequences profound.

The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well. The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers, but when Ebby's high profile romance falls apart, that's exactly what they get.