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With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this story of espionage, identity, and courage is perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Marie Benedict.
Code Name Butterfly
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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Inspired by Josephine Baker’s real-life heroism, Code Name Butterfly is a gripping World War II novel set in occupied Paris. When Elodie Mitchell is mistaken for a star, she’s drawn into a covert resistance network. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this story of espionage, identity, and courage is perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Marie Benedict.
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Paris is about to fall. Elodie Mitchell plans to leave.
A Black American journalist caught in the chaos of 1941 France, Elodie is ready to return home. But when she’s mistaken for the legendary Josephine Baker and pulled backstage at a cabaret show, she stumbles into a hidden world of danger and defiance.
Beneath the sequins and spotlight lies a resistance movement counting on her help. Disguised as Josephine’s cousin, Elodie takes on a mission that could change the course of the war—and her life. Gathering intelligence, dodging Nazi suspicion, and standing up to racism from both sides of the ocean, she becomes more than just a witness to history.
She becomes a part of it.
Inspired by true events, this is historical fiction that grips, moves, and lingers.
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Perfect for fans of dual timelines and thought-provoking mysteries, it is a haunting blend of past and present.
The Shape of Mercy
Historical Fiction
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A privileged student. A centuries-old diary. A truth that hits too close to home. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this gripping novel explores how judgment, fear, and unspoken history ripple through time. Perfect for fans of dual timelines and thought-provoking mysteries, it is a haunting blend of past and present. Discover the story that refuses to stay buried.
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When Lauren Durough turns down a Stanford education and a trust fund, she isn't just making a statement. She’s choosing to live life on her own terms.
Taking a job transcribing 17th-century journal entries for the prickly and secretive Abigail Boyles, Lauren is swept into the voice of Mercy Hayworth, a teenager condemned in the Salem witch trials. Mercy’s world is governed by fear, superstition, and the deadly cost of being misunderstood.
As Lauren digs deeper, she begins to suspect Mercy’s tragic past is tangled with Abigail’s bitter present and perhaps even her own unfolding future. Secrets long buried resurface, demanding that Lauren face the truths she’s been avoiding.
Can she really see herself clearly, or is she just another biased observer pretending to know better?
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Jeanne de Flandre takes center stage in this gripping historical novel set at the dawn of the Hundred Years War.
From Tickhill, 1348
Historical Fiction
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Jeanne de Flandre takes center stage in this gripping historical novel set at the dawn of the Hundred Years War. With her husband imprisoned and enemies closing in, she must defend his claim to the duchy of Brittany. Fans of Bernard Cornwell and Philippa Gregory will be spellbound. Rated 4.5 stars, and praised by Kirkus as “enchanting” and “compelling.”
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As the Hundred Years War erupts, Brittany becomes a battlefield of ambition. The old Duke is dead, and his will names John de Montfort as his heir. But the crown was long courted by others, and now Montfort’s claim is under siege.
When John is imprisoned by the French king, his wife, Jeanne de Flandre, must act. With little more than courage and cunning, she leads the fight to defend her husband’s rights and protect their son’s inheritance.
Jeanne is no ordinary noblewoman. She’s a strategist, a warrior, and a mother determined to change the course of history.
Inspired by real events, this sweeping historical drama blends court intrigue, battlefield grit, and the rise of a woman who refused to yield.
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Love refuses to fade even when memory and distance intervene.
The Oceans Between Us
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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Love refuses to fade even when memory and distance intervene. In The Oceans Between Us, a mother injured during the London Blitz awakens with no past, only the certainty that her child is missing. As her son is sent across the world to Australia, both must endure separation shaped by war, secrecy, and fragile hope. The novel traces parallel lives bound by loss, resilience, and enduring maternal devotion.
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A MOTHER FIGHTS TO FIND HER SON. A CHILD BATTLES FOR SURVIVAL.
Inspired by the heartrending true events behind Ten Pound Poms, this riveting novel is for readers of Lisa Wingate, Martha Hall Kelly, Kathryn Hughes, and Lesley Pearse.
'A warm-hearted tale of love, loss and indefatigable human spirit' Kathryn Hughes
'Such a poignant story'
'Beautifully told, heart-wrenching tale'
A woman is found wandering injured in London after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who she is. Only that she has lost something very precious.
As the little boy waits in the orphanage, he hopes his mother will return. But then he finds himself on board a ship bound for Australia, the promise of a golden life ahead, and wonders: how will she find him in a land across the oceans?
In Perth, a lonely wife takes in the orphaned child. But then she discovers the secret of his past. Should she keep quiet? Or tell the truth and risk losing the boy who has become her life?
This magnificent, moving novel, set in London and Australia, is testament to the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
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It’s 1947 and Stalin’s chaos agent is on the move.
A Cold Wind From Moscow
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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It’s 1947 and Stalin’s chaos agent is on the move. In this pulse-pounding Cold War thriller, Cambridge professor Tom Wilde hunts a mole in MI5 who holds the key to the atomic bomb. With 1 million copies sold, the Sunday Times bestselling author returns with a tightly wound tale of treachery, paranoia, and quiet heroism on the brink of nuclear disaster.
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AT THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW BREED OF SPY IS BORN . . .
The gripping new 2025 novel from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling 'master of the wartime spy thriller' (Financial Times).
Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever - and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create extra chaos.
But Stalin has a more important motive than mere disruption. He has a man on the inside who must be protected at all costs - a communist super-spy who has the secrets of the atomic bomb at his fingertips.
Freya Bentall, a senior MI5 officer, no longer knows who to trust and is left with one option: to bring in an outsider whose loyalty is beyond question - Cambridge professor Tom Wilde. His task: to find the traitor in MI5.
Bentall has three main suspects and Wilde must get close to them all. That means delving deep into the criminal underworld, attaching himself to the cultural elite of the arts and finding a way into the extreme reaches of British politics.
As winter bites and violence erupts, Wilde faces an uphill battle to protect those he loves from merciless killers. And he knows that one slip will spell disaster for the country - and his family.
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A gripping, real-life escape story of nine women who defied the Nazis and survived.
The Nine
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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A gripping, real-life escape story of nine women who defied the Nazis and survived. The Nine by Gwen Strauss is a powerful WWII narrative of friendship and resistance, praised by the Wall Street Journal and Heather Morris. With a 4.5 out of 5 star Amazon rating, it captures the strength of women fighting for freedom against impossible odds.
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Nine women. Ten days. One impossible escape.
In the final days of World War II, a band of nine female resistance fighters broke free from a German forced labor camp and journeyed across war-torn Europe to reclaim their lives. Led by Hélène Podliasky, the author's great aunt, these women had risked everything to resist the Nazis—smuggling weapons, aiding fugitives, and defying the Gestapo.
They met behind bars, under duress, and in transit between prisons, eventually forging a bond stronger than fear. When forced onto a death march, they seized the only chance left.
Based on painstaking research, The Nine is a story of courage, sisterhood, and survival. Their legacy isn’t just what they endured—it’s how fiercely they refused to be broken.
Some histories beg to be remembered. This one demands it.
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From New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie comes the story of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter like you've never seen.
America’s First Daughter
Historical Fiction
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From New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie comes the story of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter like you've never seen. America’s First Daughter blends rich historical detail, forbidden love, and political scandal into a gripping portrait of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is historical fiction at its most haunting.
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She was the daughter of a founding father. Keeping his secrets was her inheritance.
Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph grows up knowing her father’s first love is liberty, not family. After her mother’s death, she becomes Jefferson’s confidante and caretaker, even following him to revolutionary France. There, amid glittering salons and political unrest, Patsy uncovers a truth she can’t unlearn—her father’s relationship with enslaved teenager Sally Hemings.
Patsy wants a future with William Short, her father’s idealistic protégé. But loyalty to Jefferson threatens that dream, forcing her to choose between independence and obligation.
Years later, as scandal and ruin swirl around Monticello, Patsy becomes the keeper of Jefferson’s legacy. But what happens when protecting his reputation costs her everything?
What’s left when the truth is a threat too dangerous to tell?
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A family arrives in the Belgian Congo on a missionary quest, only to be reshaped by a land and history they cannot control.
The Poisonwood Bible
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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A family arrives in the Belgian Congo on a missionary quest, only to be reshaped by a land and history they cannot control. The Poisonwood Bible (4.6 stars on Amazon) is a gripping, multigenerational novel that explores faith, guilt, and postcolonial reckoning through the eyes of five unforgettable women. A modern classic that still resonates today.
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In 1959, a Baptist missionary takes his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo, convinced they can save souls with garden seeds, scripture, and American conviction. But the land has its own power, and nothing they bring from home prepares them for what they find.
Told through the voices of the women he brought with him, this is the story of a family torn apart by faith, history, and guilt. As the Congo fights for independence, each woman must navigate personal transformation shaped by tragedy, love, and survival.
Set against one of the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century, this haunting novel explores the cost of belief and the limits of redemption. The choices they make will echo across generations.
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A New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna pick, The Whalebone Theatre (4.4 stars on Amazon) is a sweeping, poignant debut set between the English coast and…
The Whalebone Theatre
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna pick, The Whalebone Theatre (4.4 stars on Amazon) is a sweeping, poignant debut set between the English coast and Nazi-occupied France. From a stage built in a whale’s rib cage to the shadows of war, Joanna Quinn delivers a powerful coming-of-age tale of art, bravery, and belonging.
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On the stormy coast of England in 1928, a whale washes ashore. Twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave, orphaned and overlooked, claims it as her own. From its bones, she builds a theatre—a stage for imagination, rebellion, and a childhood of quiet resistance.
Raised in a crumbling manor under the indifference of her stepparents, Cristabel finds escape through performance and story. But when war arrives, the stakes become real. As an adult, she joins the British secret service, stepping into a role far more dangerous than any she once played under the whale’s ribs.
Sweeping from childhood theatrics to the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied France, The Whalebone Theatre is a dazzling debut about courage, identity, and the stories we carry through the fire of history.
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Ideal for readers looking for medieval historical fiction with political marriage, family secrets, and a developing romance.
The Wild Hunt
Historical Fiction
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A bestselling, Betty Trask Award-winning novel, this story follows Guyon of Ledworth and Judith of Ravenstow as an arranged marriage intended to protect threatened lands unites them in the Welsh Marches, with a 4.0-star average from more than 2,700 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for medieval historical fiction with political marriage, family secrets, and a developing romance.
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'An author who makes history come gloriously alive'
The Times
Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling, award-winning first novel, and the start of the beloved Wild Hunt series.
In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger.
He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his territory - but they have yet to meet...
For this is Wales at the turn of the twelfth century. Dynasties forge and fight, and behind the precarious throne of William Rufus, political intrigue is raging.
Caught amidst the violence are Judith and Guyon, bound together yet poles apart. But when the full horror of war crashes over Guyon and Judith, they are forced to face insurmountable odds. Together...
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From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a moving dual-timeline novel rich with emotion and history.
The Words We Whisper
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a moving dual-timeline novel rich with emotion and history. The Emerald Tide (4.6 stars on Amazon) follows a hospice nurse who uncovers her grandmother’s secret past in 1943 Italy. Family, love, and loss collide in this unforgettable story of second chances and long-buried truths. Find out what she discovers.
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From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a powerful story of love, loss, and the secrets we leave behind.
Zara Mitchell has spent years surrounded by death as a hospice nurse. So when her sister asks her to care for their sharp-minded but ailing grandmother, she agrees, even though their family ties are frayed.
Nonna is determined to find something long buried, and she sends Zara digging through the attic. As boxes open and memories surface, Zara reconnects with a man who complicates everything and uncovers a wooden chest that holds more than heirlooms.
Inside, a journal reveals a forgotten romance in 1943 Italy filled with courage, betrayal, and heartbreak. What Zara finds doesn't just explain the past. It forces her to rethink her future.
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The Banned Books of Berlin by bestselling author Andie Newton blends danger, resistance, and literary rebellion in a dual-timeline tale.
The Banned Books of Berlin
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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The Banned Books of Berlin by bestselling author Andie Newton blends danger, resistance, and literary rebellion in a dual-timeline tale. When Maddie finds a hidden diary from Nazi-era Berlin, she uncovers a young woman’s fight against tyranny. With 4.5 stars on Amazon, this gripping story celebrates books, bravery, and the voices they tried to silence.
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Berlin, 1933: The flames of fascism rise, and with them, bonfires that devour forbidden books. As the Nazi regime tightens its grip, Freya—once a quiet rule-follower—finds herself at a dangerous crossroads. Watching her beloved city unravel, she must choose: stay silent or risk everything to stand against the darkness.
New York, present day: Burned out and seeking clarity, Maddie returns home—only to discover a prewar German diary hidden among her grandfather’s things. The words inside are bold, lyrical, and defiant, written by a girl named Freya.
As Maddie follows the trail across continents and decades, she uncovers the true cost of courage—and the unexpected ways the past shapes the present.
One girl defied a regime. One woman won’t let her story burn.
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