COMING SOON - HISTORICAL FANTASY - THE FACTORY GIRL AND THE FEY by Nadine Galinsky Feldman

 The Factory Girl and the Fey

by Nadine Galinsky FeldmanPublication Date: October 14th 2021Genre: Historical Fiction/Fantasy 

Jane Thorburn straddles two worlds: her life as a “factory girl” in Scotland’s mills, and her birthright as fairy royalty. Abandoned by her parents as an infant, and uncertain about the true motives of the Fey, she learns to depend only on herself. All she wants is to be a great weaver and to maintain her independence. The Fair Folk, fighting for their very survival, have other plans for her, as does the handsome and charismatic Robert Stein. What life will she choose? And will she even have a choice? A historical fantasy inspired by the author’s ancestors, The Factory Girl and the Fey is an affectionate tribute to the women who helped fuel Scotland’s Industrial Age, from the workers to the poets…and to the Fey who remind us that magic is real when we believe in it.

BOOK BLAST - HISTORICAL FICTION - WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS by M.C. Bunn

 

Where Your Treasure Is 
by M.C. Bunn
Publication Date: April 23RD 2021
Bellastoria Press LLC
Genre: Historical Fiction

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Feisty, independent heiress Winifred de la Coeur has never wanted to live according to someone else’s rules—but even she didn’t plan on falling in love with a bank robber.

Winifred is a wealthy, nontraditional beauty who bridles against the strict rules and conventions of Victorian London society. When she gets caught up in the chaos of a bungled bank robbery, she is thrust unwillingly into an encounter with Court Furor, a reluctant getaway driver and prizefighter. In the bitter cold of a bleak London winter, sparks fly.

Winifred and Court are two misfits in their own circumscribed worlds—the fashionable beau monde with its rigorously upheld rules, and the gritty demimonde, where survival often means life-or-death choices.

Despite their conflicting backgrounds, they fall desperately in love while acknowledging the impossibility of remaining together. Returning to their own worlds, they try to make peace with their lives until a moment of unrestrained honesty and defiance threatens to topple the deceptions they have carefully constructed to protect each other.

A story of the overlapping entanglements of Victorian London’s social classes, the strength of family bonds and true friendship, and the power of love to heal a broken spirit.

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BOOK BLAST - HISTORICAL ROMANCE - THE BACHELOR DUKE (The Bachelor, #1) by Cecilia Rene

 

The Bachelor Duke 
The Bachelor Series, #1
by Cecilia Rene
Publication Date: July 25th 2020
Genre: Historical Romance
Paperback & eBook; 296 pages

 

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The Bachelor Duke meets a beautiful, curvaceous lady.

Remington Warren, The Duke of Karrington, lives his life by the name society has thrust upon him. Having witnessed cruelty against the fairer sex with his own eyes, he vows never to marry to prevent himself from becoming like the monster who raised him. After ten years of being The Bachelor Duke, his life is irrevocably changed when he sees Lady Olivia St. John across the ballroom floor.

Having lived a sheltered, pampered life, surrounded by her loving family, Lady Olivia St. John longs to know passion and love. She is beautiful, bold, and has a rather large dowry. According to society, she would be a diamond in the first water of this season if it wasn’t for her one flaw.

Will she find all she longs for and more in the arms of The Bachelor Duke, or will heartbreak be her demise?

READ MORE . . . HISTORICAL ROMANCE - THE BACHELOR DUKE (The Bachelor, #1) by Cecilia Rene . . .

TOUR - HISTORICAL FICTION - A FLAME THROUGH ETERNITY (Wanderer, #3) by Anna Belfrage

A Flame Through Eternity 

Wanderer, #3
by Anna Belfrage

Publication Date: December 2nd 2019

Timelight Press

Genre: Historical Fiction

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It started 3,000 years ago. It ends now. Who survives the final confrontation? 

According to Helle Madsen, being the protagonist of a time-spanning epic love story has some things going for it, primarily Jason Morris. Because seriously, meeting up with your fated lover after 3 000 years apart is not bad—at all. Unfortunately, where Jason goes, there goes Sam Woolf, yet another very, very ancient acquaintance—with the fundamental difference that Sam is not into Happily Ever After. He’s into destruction, more specifically of Jason and Helle. 

Helle may believe in second-chance love, but she sure doesn’t believe in reincarnation. Okay, she didn’t believe in stuff like that until she met Jason Morris a year or so ago. By now, she has accepted that sometimes impossible things are quite, quite possible—like an ancient princess being reborn as an ambitious financial analyst. 

Finding Jason was like finding the part of her that had always been missing—a perfect match. But handling Sam Woolf, the reborn version of their ancient nemesis is something of a trial. No sooner do you have him well and surely beat, but up he bounces again. 

Sheesh, will it take an oak stake to permanently rid their lives of him? 

Sam Woolf is a powerful adversary. Too powerful, even. Jason and Helle will need help from unexpected quarters to finally bring this tangled, ancient love-and-hate triangle to some sort of conclusion. Question is, will they survive the experience?

READ MORE . . . HISTORICAL FICTION - A FLAME THROUGH ETERNITY (Wanderer, #3) by Anna Belfrage . . .

SPOTLIGHT w/INTERVIEW - HISTORICAL FICTION - MAN OF WAR (The Rebels and Redcoats Saga, #4) by T.J. London

MAN OF WAR
The Rebels and Redcoats Saga, #4
by T.J. London

Publication Date: April 14th 2020

Paperback & eBook; 681 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

The man who wants everything gets nothing… 

July 1755 

War is brewing between England and France. Impressed into the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Merrick, against all odds, advanced through the ranks to become an officer—but he is not a gentleman. A man with a tainted past from a traitorous family, cast down by King George—a stain no man can remove. 

Merrick’s thrust into the role of captain, when the HMS Boudica is attacked by pirates off the coast of Nova Scotia. On a captured enemy vessel he discovers a King’s ransom in treasure and a woman chained in the hold from passenger ship that mysteriously disappeared at sea. 

Beautiful, defiant, and hell bent on revenge, India makes a deal with Merrick to uncover the pirates’ scheme, promising him everything he desires: fortune, glory, and the chance to bring honor back to the McKesson name. 

Now, they race against time to uncover a plot that links those in the highest ranks of the British aristocracy, to a failed rebellion that is once again trying to topple the monarchy and place an old pretender on the throne. But all that glitters is not gold as passions stir and an impossible love blooms, threatening to undermine all Merrick and India have done to protect their King and a country on the brink of war.

READ MORE . . . HISTORICAL FICTION - MAN OF WAR (The Rebels and Redcoats Saga, #4) by T.J. London . . . 

SPOTLIGHT - HISTORICAL FICTION - FACE OF FORTUNE (Shadows of Rosthwaite, #2) by Colleen Kelly-Eiding

FACE OF FORTUNE

Shadows of Rosthwaite, #2

by Colleen Kelly-Eiding

February 1^st 2020

Publisher: Phase Publishing

Paperback & eBook; 405 Pages 
Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance

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Charlotte Pruitt, an auburn-haired beauty whose soul is as wild as the northern mountains she loves, lives day to day, hoping against hope that James Clarke still lives. The love of her life and father of their son had attacked a nobleman whom he caught attempting to rape Charlotte. Pursued by soldiers and attempting to escape, James plunged into a raging river and was last seen being pulled under by the torrent. 

James who had fought to protect her and little Jack, is gone. Courage, strength, intellect, and a keen wit would have to be her guardians now. 

A weaker person would crumble under the pressure of running a business, raising a child alone, fending off unscrupulous men, while always aware that the horrific villain, Edward Hawkes is still alive and bent on her destruction. Instead, Charlotte focuses on those less fortunate than herself. She becomes dedicated to helping Jane Rourke, a weaver, who is falsely accused of crimes and sentenced to death. Charlotte is offered a way to save Jane Rourke, but at a terrible price to herself. And what of Hawkes? How will she save herself and little Jack? 

From the dark and gritty streets of Spitalfields, hiding secrets both good and evil, to the haunted moors of Devon, and to the perilous heights of the northern English mountains where Charlotte’s greatest test will come, this epic saga of human kindness, passionate love, and horrifying evil never ceases to enchant…and terrify.

READ MORE . . . HISTORICAL FICTION - FACE OF FORTUNE (Shadows of Rosthwaite, #2) by Colleen Kelly-Eiding . . .

BOOK BLAST - HISTORICAL FICTION - HER SIDE OF THE HISTORY by Claudia J. Severin

HER SIDE OF HISTORY

by Claudia Severin

Publication Date: February 24th 2020

Pella Road Publishing

Paperback & eBook; 303 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

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Author Claudia J. Severin took things into her own hands when her genealogy research seemed limiting. Follow her foremothers, four mothers plucked from her family tree. She reimagines the lives of ancestral families in this anthology. Ina, the tragic suffragette, traded her college degree and teaching career for a loving husband and children in the 1910s, in the shadow of the Great War, but things did not work out as she planned. Mary, a German immigrant, finds love with an Iowa farmer, and crosses the state in a covered wagon with his entire family to become a homesteader on the Nebraska plains in 1869. She didn’t know that Indian encounters, prairie fires and locusts would threaten her and her rapidly growing family. Nellie fell for the bad boy, the Good Time Charley who didn’t let a little thing like Prohibition stand in his way. She tries to control his drinking and spending, while supporting her family in times of calamity in the 1920s and 1930s traveling from Nebraska to Kansas and back again. Katie finds herself the sole heir to her father’s farm in southeastern Nebraska decades after the Homestead Act took most of the land ownership out of play. She enjoys playing the flirtatious games learned from her older half-sisters. But are her suitors interested in her or her inheritance?

READ MORE . . . HISTORICAL FICTION - HER SIDE OF THE HISTORY by Claudia J. Severin . . .

BOOK BLAST - GOTHIC HISTORICAL - THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS by Kris Waldherr

The Lost History of Dreams 

by Kris Waldherr

Paperback Publication Date: February 18th 2020

Atria Books

Hardcover & eBook; 336 Pages

Genre: Historical/Gothic/Mystery

The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr is now out in paperback! In it, a post-mortem photographer unearths the dark secrets of a famed poet’s marriage in this “sensual, twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights” (BookPage). Blurring the line between the past and the present, truth and fiction, and ultimately, life and death, The Lost History of Dreams is “a surrealist, haunting tale of suspense where every prediction turns out to be merely a step toward a bigger reveal” (Booklist). 

When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is found dead in his bath one morning in 1850, final arrangements are left to his estranged cousin, historian turned postmortem photographer Robert Highstead. De Bonne’s will instructs that he should be buried in a stained glass chapel set on the Shropshire moors, built to house the remains of his beloved wife and muse, Ada. It has since been locked to all outsiders—especially the cultlike fans of de Bonne’s final book, The Lost History of Dreams. Only Ada’s grief-stricken niece, Isabelle, holds the key, but she refuses to open the chapel unless Robert agrees to her bargain: Before he can lay Hugh to rest, Robert must record the real story behind her aunt’s ill-fated marriage to the poet over the course of five nights—a story that is both love story and ghost story. Learn more here.

READ MORE . . . THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS by Kris Waldherr . . .

SPOTLIGHT - HISTORICAL FICTION - STATE OF TREASON by Paul Walker

State of Treason

by Paul Walker

Publication Date: May 20th 2019

Sharpe Books

eBook & Paperback; 317 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

"A gripping and evocative page-turner that vibrantly brings Elizabeth's London to life." -Steven Veerapen, author of A Dangerous Trade 

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London 1578 - a cauldron of conspiracy, intrigue and torture. 

The might of Spain and the growing influence of the Catholic League in France all threaten the stability of Queen Elizabeth and her state. 

William Constable, a physician and astrologer, is summoned to the presence of the Queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. He is charged to assist a renowned Puritan, John Foxe, in uncovering the secrets of a mysterious cabinet containing an astrological chart and coded message. Together, these claim Elizabeth has a hidden, illegitimate child (an “unknowing maid”) who will be declared to the masses and serve as the focus for an invasion. 

Constable must uncover the identity of the plotters, unaware that he is also under suspicion. 

A connection to his estranged mentor, Doctor Dee, comes under scrutiny. Pressured into taking up a position as a court physician, Constable becomes a reluctant spy. 

Do the stars and cipher speak true, or is there some other malign intent in the complex web of scheming?

READ MORE . . . STATE OF TREASON by Paul Walker . . . 

BOOK BLAST - HISTORICAL FICTION - PURE (The Marsh Sagas, #2) by AnneMarie Brear

PRUE

The Marsh Sagas, #2

by AnneMarie Brear

Publication Date: January 23rd 2020

eBook & Paperback; 328 Pages

Genre: Historical Romance

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When her feisty grandmama informs Prue of her intentions to take her travelling, she is excited and ready to explore outside of England. 

Restless, unsure of what she needs and wants, Prue arrives in India intent on adventure. However, Prue soon learns that some escapades come with a price. India is exotic and tantalising, yet also rife with unrest, and closer to home, family secrets unravel destroying lives. 

Leaving India and heartbreak behind her, a wiser Prue travels to Italy. Experiencing that life is short, Prue is determined to make the most of her holiday and have some fun, only she wasn’t prepared to meet a man who would make her question herself. 

Surviving the war was easier than enduring the quiet peace at home. In need of distraction, Brandon Forster and his friend, Vince, spend their time climbing mountains in Europe. The last thing Brandon expected was to meet an attractive English rose with the same edgy spirit as himself. 

When Prue reveals her past mistakes to Brandon, he must decide if she is the woman for him, but a tragic accident makes them both confront deeper feelings.  
Can they find in each other the missing element they need to make them whole or will previous anguish taint their future?

READ MORE . . . PURE (The Marsh Sagas, #2) by AnneMarie Brear . . .

SPOTLIGHT w/EXCERPT - HISTORICAL FICTION - Wanders Far by David Fitz-Gerald

Wanders Far by David Fitz-Gerald

Publication Date: May 11th 2019

Outskirts Press

eBook, Paperback, AudioBook; 197 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

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Wanders Far lived in dangerous times and was faced with one difficult challenge after another. He was a skinny, quiet boy who was raised on the banks of a tributary of New York State’s Mohawk River, hundreds of years before colonists arrived. One lifetime was not enough for Wanders Far’s old soul. From a very young age, his wanderlust compelled him down one path after another. No village could contain him. He was happy living a simple life in the physical world during challenging times. The spirit world had other plans. A wise, enigmatic shaman mentored Wanders Far and helped him cultivate the supernatural visions that haunted him. His guide could only help him so far. He set out to become a runner, carrying important messages across the lands of his people and their enemies. He ended up fulfilling a much greater destiny than he ever imagined.

READ MORE . . . WANDERS FAR . . . GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT . . . 

SPOTLIGHT - HISTORICAL FICTION - FAREWELL MY LIFE by Cynthia Haggard

Farewell My Life 

by Cynthia Haggard

Publication Date: April 7th 2019 

eBook & Paperback; 586 pages 

 Genre: Historical Fiction     

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Angelina led a life which required her to fib. When Angelina, the black sheep of the Pagano family, meets the mysterious Mr. Russell, she has no idea that she has seen him before…in another country. And so begins Farewell My Life, a novel in three parts, which spins an operatic tale of dangerous love and loss.

The Lost Mother, the first part of this novel, slices back and forth between time and space, opening in the charming village of Georgetown, Washington D.C. while reflecting a family’s troubled past in the lovely village of Marostica in the Italian Veneto.

An Unsuitable Suitor, the second part of the novel, is a Cinderella-ish tale with not-so-charming princes who inhabit the edgy setting of 1920s Berlin.


Farewell My Life, the last part of the novel, set again in Berlin, Germany, during the dark 1930s as the Nazis gain power, takes comfortable lives, assumptions and civilizations and crumbles them into ash.

READ MORE . . . FAREWELL MY LIFE . . . GIVEAWAY . . . 

SPOTLIGHT w/EXCERPT - HISTORICAL - Listen to the Wind (The Orphanss of Tolosa, #1) by Susanne Dunlap

Listen to the Wind 

The Orphans of Tolosa, #1

by Susanne Dunlap

Publication Date: April 22nd 2019

Bellastoria Press

eBook & Paperback; 388 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction/Medieval

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Sent away from their families for their own protection when they were very young, Azemar and Azalaïs become separated when they are forced to flee from the band of outlaws who served as their supposed protectors. Armed only with scraps of memories and the wits and intelligence that have helped them survive brutal conditions, they struggle to find each other again and discover the mysterious past that links them across distance and time. Who are they? And do they hold the secret of the legendary Cathar treasure? All they know is that knights and monks spell danger, and they must find a way to survive at all costs if they are to fulfill their destiny—and preserve their vanishing culture.

READ MORE . . . Listen to the Wind (The Orphanss of Tolosa, #1) . . . GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT . . . 

SPOTLIGHT w/EXCERPT - HISTORICAL - The Strongman and the Mermaid by Kathleen Shoop

The Strongman and the Mermaid The Donora Story Collection, #2

by Kathleen Shoop

Publication Date: February 28th 2019

eBook & Paperback; 573 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction/Saga

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Myscowa, Poland—1910 
Once upon a time in tiny, rural Myscowa, Lukasz Musial competes in feats of strength against his lifelong nemesis to win passage to America. He leaves behind grinding poverty and despair, to seek the clear blue skies, and better life he sees on a postcard. Settled in Donora’s Polish community, Lukasz secures a coveted job in the wire mill, and is matched to marry Donora’s very own Polish princess. Life is set on course. The American Dream is nearly his. 

Donora, Pennsylvania—1910 
Mary Lancos is no princess. A tall, athletic girl who loves the water, she spends her days keeping house for families in town, digging coal out of a backyard seam and rowing her father across the Monongahela River for work. Mary is dependable, tenacious, and always ready to help when someone needs her. She dreams of a gas-heated home, a bedroom for each of her future children, and good meals on the table each night. To help make that happen Mary attends local dances, waiting for the few men who are taller than her to ask her to dance, hoping one of them is right for her. 

An unexpected Christmas Eve visitor brings bad luck, and Lukasz’s world crumbles. Meanwhile, tension grows at the Lancos home when money is short and Mary’s dreams clash with her parents’ old world expectations. Just when Mary and Lukasz are at their lowest, they find themselves under an odd pink moonlit sky and Lukasz rescues Mary from a fall into frigid river water. The attraction between them is sudden and consuming, turning the pair onto an unexpected path. With mounting disapproval from Mary’s parents, and increased pressure on Lukasz, they must decide if love is enough to risk losing everything else that matters.

READ MORE . . . The Strongman and the Mermaid (The Donora Story Collection, #2) . . . GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT . . . 

SPOTLIGHT - HISTORICAL MYSTERY - A Murderous Malady by Christine Trent

A Murderous Malady

by Christine Trent

Publication Date: May 7th 2019

Crooked Lane Books

Hardcover & eBook; 336 Pages

Genre: Historical Mystery

For fans of Charles Todd and Deanna Raybourn comes Christine Trent’s second Florence Nightingale mystery. 

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Cholera has broken out in London, but Florence Nightingale has bigger problems when people begin dying of a far more intentional cause—murder. 

The London summer of 1854 is drawing to a close when a deadly outbreak of cholera grips the city. Florence Nightingale is back on the scene marshaling her nurses to help treat countless suffering patients at Middlesex Hospital as the disease tears through the Soho slums. But beyond the dangers of the disease, something even more evil is seeping through the ailing streets of London. 

It begins with an attack on the carriage of Florence’s friend, Elizabeth Herbert, wife to Secretary at War Sidney Herbert. Florence survives, but her coachman does not. Within hours, Sidney’s valet stumbles into the hospital, mutters a few cryptic words about the attack, and promptly dies from cholera. Frantic that an assassin is stalking his wife, Sidney enlists Florence’s help, who accepts but has little to go on save for the valet’s last words and a curious set of dice in his jacket pocket. Soon, the suspects are piling up faster than cholera victims, as there seems to be no end to the number of people who bear a grudge against the Herbert household. 

Now, Florence is in a race against time—not only to save the victims of a lethal disease, but to foil a murderer with a disturbingly sinister goal—in A Murderous Malady.

READ MORE . . . A Murderous Malady  . . .

SPOTLIGHT w/EXCERPT - HISTORICAL FICTION - Repentance by Andrew Lam

Repentance 
by Andrew Lam

Publication Date: May 1st 2019

Tiny Fox Press

Paperback & eBook; 308 Pages

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France, October 1944. A Japanese American war hero has a secret. 

A secret so awful he'd rather die than tell anyone--one so entwined with the brave act that made him a hero that he's determined never to speak of the war. Ever. 

Decades later his son, Daniel Tokunaga, a world-famous cardiac surgeon, is perplexed when the U.S. government comes calling, wanting to know about his father's service with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII. Something terrible happened while his father was fighting the Germans in France, and the Department of Defense won't stop its investigation until it's determined exactly who did what. 

Wanting answers of his own, Daniel upends his life to find out what his father did on a small, obscure hilltop half a world away. As his quest for the truth unravels his family's catastrophic past, the only thing for certain is that nothing--his life, career, and family--can ever be the same again.

READ MORE . . . REPENTANCE . . . GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT . . . 

SPOTLIGHT - HISTORICAL MYSTERY - The Silent Woman by Terry Lynn Thomas

The Silent Woman 
 Cat Carlisle, #1
by Terry Lynn Thomas

Publication Date: April 11th 2018

HQ Digital

Paperback & eBook; 384 Pages

Genre: Historical Mystery

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Would you sell your secrets? 

Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans. 

Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Someone is selling secrets to the other side, and the evidence seems to point right at her. 

Can she clear her name before it’s too late?

READ MORE . . . THE SILENT WOMAN . . . GIVEAWAY . . . 

TOUR w/EXCERPT - HISTORICAL - A Modest Independence (Parish Orphans of Devon, #2) by Mimi Matthews

A Modest Independence
Parish Orphans of Devon, #2
by Mimi Matthews

Publication Date: April 23rd 2019

Perfectly Proper Press

eBook; 400 Pages

Genre: Historical Romance

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He Needed Peace… 

Attorney Tom Finchley has spent his life using his devious intellect to solve the problems of others. As for his own problems, they’re nothing that a bit of calculated vengeance can’t remedy. But that’s all over now. He’s finally ready to put the past behind him and settle down to a quiet, uncomplicated life. If only he could find an equally uncomplicated woman. 

She Wanted Adventure… 

Former lady’s companion Jenny Holloway has just been given a modest independence. Now, all she wants is a bit of adventure. A chance to see the world and experience life far outside the restrictive limits of Victorian England. If she can discover the fate of the missing Earl of Castleton while she’s at it, so much the better. From the gaslit streets of London to the lush tea gardens of colonial India, Jenny and Tom embark on an epic quest—and an equally epic romance. But even at the farthest edges of the British Empire, the past has a way of catching up with you…

READ MORE . . . A MODEST INDEPENDENCE (Parish Orphans of Devon, #2) . . . GIVEAWAY & EXCERPT . . . 

BOOK BLAST - HISTORICAL THRILLER & SUSPENSE - Burton Blake by Robert Tucker



Burton Blake 

by Robert Tucker

Publication Date: January 6th 2019

Tell-Tale Publishing Group

eBook; 381 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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In this sequel to The Revolutionist, the American journey of three generations locks the neophyte company president, Burton Blake, in a vicious struggle with corporate intrigue, financial greed, and social corruption.

Born to a taxi dancer at the beginning of the Second World War, Burton’s father, Elias Blake, never knows his natural father, who is killed in the South Pacific. He is raised by his mother and stepfather from her second marriage who makes his fortune during the post war real estate boom of the 50’s. Their untimely death by his business partner leaves the boy Elias in the guardianship of his mother’s best friend and her marine vet husband who introduces him to the macho culture of guns and hunting.

Elias’s youth is influenced by the adult world’s drive for personal material gain. Over the next decades, he expands his parents’ original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional, multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son, Burton.

Upon his forced return from traveling and working with oppressed third world people, Burton learns increasingly more about the true nature of his deceased father as he undertakes the challenges of leading the company in a new direction.

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TOUR w//EXCERPT - The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen Vol II by Collins Hemingway

The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen 
Vol. II  
by Collins Hemingway

Publication Date: August 8th 2016

eBook & Paperback; 332 Pages

ISBN-13: 978-1535444958

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Jane Austen Lived a Quiet, Single Life-Or Did She? 

Tradition holds that Jane Austen lived a proper, contemplative, unmarried life. But what if she wed a man as passionate and intelligent as she-and the marriage remained secret for 200 years? 

The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen resolves the biggest mystery of Austen's life-the "lost years" of her twenties-of which historians know virtually nothing. 
 • Why the enduring rumors of a lost love or tragic affair? 
 • Why, afterward, did the vivacious Austen prematurely put on "the cap of middle age" and close off any thoughts of finding love? 
 • Why, after her death, did her beloved sister destroy her letters and journals?
 The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen trilogy answers these questions through a riveting love affair based on the history of the times and the details of Austen's own life. 

READ MORE . . . THE MARRIAGE OF MISS JANE AUSTEN VOL II . . .