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Two women.
The Letter Home
Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery
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Two women. Two centuries. One heartbreaking legacy. In The Letter Home, bestselling author Rachael English weaves a poignant tale of famine-era Ireland and present-day Boston, where a journalist and a genealogist uncover a secret buried in blood and love. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, this powerful story of sacrifice and survival will stay with you. Click now to uncover the past.
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She left everything behind to give her daughter a chance. But the past never stays buried forever.
When Irish journalist Jessie Daly returns to the west coast after personal tragedy, she uncovers the haunting tale of Bridget Moloney—a young mother forced to make an unthinkable choice during Ireland’s Great Famine: stay and watch her child starve, or leave for America alone to save her.
Across the ocean in present-day Boston, Kaitlin Wilson’s family tree research leads her to Boherbreen—and to a secret hidden for generations.
Inspired by true events, The Letter Home is a heart-wrenching, sweeping tale of survival, sacrifice, and the enduring bond between mothers and daughters. Perfect for fans of The Paper Bracelet and The Nightingale, this is historical fiction at its most powerful.
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Pilgrim follows a German knight and his companions as they leave 12th-century Jerusalem after years of holy war, only to find the journey home shaped by fear, faith,…
Pilgrim
Historical Fiction · Horror
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Pilgrim follows a German knight and his companions as they leave 12th-century Jerusalem after years of holy war, only to find the journey home shaped by fear, faith, and things older than either. Their return becomes both a physical trial and a metaphysical descent through history, folklore, and spiritual terror. This is medieval horror with crusader-era brutality, religious dread, and mythic darkness.
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"Lüthi stitches his horrors on the underbelly of the Levant, creating a vast and terrifying medieval epic. Pilgrim is grand storytelling, worthy of the chronicler, worthy of the poet."
--Coy Hall, author of The Promise of Plague Wolves
"In all the years that I've been reading, I've never read anything as gripping and breath-taking as Pilgrim."
--Alpha's Court
Set in 12th-century Jerusalem, Pilgrim follows the treacherous journey of a German knight and his companions as they return home after seven arduous years battling for God in the Holy Land. Within this sprawling tale lies a tapestry of medieval horror, intertwining history and folklore, encompassing both a metaphysical and literal odyssey.
Inspired by a rich blend of Arabic, Christian, and pre-Islamic traditions, Pilgrim delivers a pulse-pounding story of action, adventure, and bone-chilling horror.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary fiction that blends fairy-tale magic with marriage, loneliness, and frontier life.
The Snow Child
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “enchanting from beginning to end” by Keith Donohue, this novel follows childless homesteaders Jack and Mabel in 1920s Alaska. After they build a girl from snow, a mysterious child named Faina appears in the wilderness, and they come to love her as their daughter. A strong match for readers drawn to literary fiction that blends fairy-tale magic with marriage, loneliness, and frontier life.
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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night.
The Night Circus
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romantasy · Magical Realism
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night. But behind the magic, two rival magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a dangerous competition where only one can survive. As they fall in love, the fate of the circus—and everyone within it—hangs in the balance.
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The circus arrives without warning—Le Cirque des Rêves, a magical spectacle unlike anything seen before, open only at night.
But behind the enchanting black-and-white tents, a dangerous competition rages between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have trained their entire lives for this moment. Their task? To outmatch each other in a deadly duel where only one can survive.
As the contest intensifies, Celia and Marco fall hopelessly in love, risking not just their own lives, but everyone tied to the circus. With everything at stake, their choices could unravel the very magic keeping the circus alive.
Will their love destroy the dreamlike world they’ve created?
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A good pick for readers who enjoy YA fantasy, Greek mythology retellings, and determined heroines.
Daughter of Sparta
Historical Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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Seventeen-year-old Spartan warrior Daphne must recover nine stolen objects from Mount Olympus to save her brother and prevent chaos in the mortal world. Guided by Apollo, she encounters legendary creatures, heroes, and gods on a dangerous quest, with a 3.8-star average from more than 9,700 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who enjoy YA fantasy, Greek mythology retellings, and determined heroines.
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In this thrilling reimagining of ancient Greek mythology, a headstrong girl becomes the most powerful fighter her people have ever seen. Perfect for fans of The Odyssey and Circe.
Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis, who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands, upends the life she's worked so hard to build. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus. If Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit.
Guided by Artemis's twin—the handsome and entirely-too-self-assured god Apollo—Daphne's journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle-spinning Sphinx of Thebes, team her up with mythological legends, such as Theseus and Hippolyta of the Amazons, and pit her against the gods themselves.
A reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, Daughter of Sparta by debut author Claire Andrews turns the traditionally male-dominated mythology we know into a heart-pounding and empowering female-led adventure.
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An atmospheric fit for historical fiction readers who enjoy botany, female friendship, and Georgian intrigue.
The Fair Botanists
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery
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Selected as the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2022, The Fair Botanists brings two women together in 1822 Edinburgh as a rare plant prepares to flower in the newly established Botanic Garden. Their connection leads them into secrets, scandal, and competing ambitions, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 2,700 Amazon reviewers. An atmospheric fit for historical fiction readers who enjoy botany, female friendship, and Georgian intrigue.
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'Compelling, fascinating . . . A cracking good read' Val McDermid
'An evocative, enjoyable portrait of 1820s Edinburgh' Sunday Times
'Lush, seductive' Daily Mail
'Completely enchanting' Scotsman
'A beautiful tale of scandal and intrigue' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
Could one rare plant hold the key to a thousand riches?
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only occurs once every few decades.
When newly widowed Elizabeth arrives in Edinburgh to live with her late husband's aunt Clementina, she's determined to put her unhappy past in London behind her. As she settles into her new home, she becomes fascinated by the beautiful Botanic Garden which borders the grand house and offers her services as an artist to record the rare plant's impending bloom. In this pursuit, she meets Belle Brodie, a vivacious young woman with a passion for botany and the lucrative, dark art of perfume creation.
Belle is determined to keep both her real identity and the reason for her interest the Garden secret from her new friend. But as Elizabeth and Belle are about to discover, secrets don't last long in this Enlightenment city . . .
And when they are revealed, they can carry the greatest of consequences . . .
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In 1940s Paris, Margaux’s photo in Nazi propaganda shatters her family’s life.
What the Light Touches
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance
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In 1940s Paris, Margaux’s photo in Nazi propaganda shatters her family’s life. Decades later, her granddaughter Barbara faces her own struggles. When a photographer uncovers Margaux’s wartime secrets during a snowstorm lockdown, Barbara must confront her family’s past and navigate unexpected new possibilities. Can the truth heal, or will it divide them forever?
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In German-occupied Paris, 17-year-old Margaux’s life changes forever when her photo is used in Nazi propaganda, branding her family as collaborators. With her lover arrested and her family’s prospects shattered, Margaux is thrust into a web of danger and betrayal.
Decades later, in 2008, Margaux lives quietly in a retirement home while her granddaughter Barbara struggles to make ends meet, renting out a room in Margaux’s old Paris apartment. But when Barbara discovers Roger, a photographer with a knack for unearthing secrets, on her couch during a snowstorm lockdown, buried truths about Margaux’s wartime past begin to surface. As revelations unfold, Barbara must decide if she’s ready to face her family’s hidden history—and open herself to an unexpected future.
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Good for readers who like frontier historical fiction about survival, family bonds, hard choices, and women forced into uneasy alliance.
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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In 1876 Wyoming, two frontier families are torn apart by tragedy when one man kills another over infidelity. The surviving women must unite to work the land and face unexpected romance between their children, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 35,500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like frontier historical fiction about survival, family bonds, hard choices, and women forced into uneasy alliance.
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From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.
Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
Losing her husband to Cora’s indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal Wyoming winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family—to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There’s Nettie Mae’s son, Clyde—no longer a boy, but not yet a man—who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him, and Cora’s daughter, Beulah, who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home.
Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested, and these two resilient women must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other—or else risk losing everything they hold dear.
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This will appeal to readers who like family mysteries, buried history, love, healing, and stories about how the past shapes the present.
An Echo in Time
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance
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In An Echo in Time, Charli Thurman begins investigating a centuries-old murder and her family history as she searches for the source of the patterns disrupting her life and relationships, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 12,200 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who like family mysteries, buried history, love, healing, and stories about how the past shapes the present.
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A woman delves into a centuries-old murder to find the truth behind her self-destructive behavior in a powerful novel about love, loss, and healing by the bestselling author of An Unfinished Story and The Stars Don’t Lie.
Unable to catch a break in life or love as she approaches thirty, Charli Thurman sees red lights at every crossroads. And given the Thurman family’s tumultuous history, she knows things will only get worse, unless she can break the cycle and figure out where—and when—it all went wrong.
Charli is skeptical when her best friend introduces her to a “soul reader” who specializes in generational trauma. But during family constellation therapy with the guru, Charli experiences an inexplicable memory of terrible violence. Whatever happened in the past, it created an imbalance that’s still in the Thurman blood.
When Charli’s research leads her to Winchester, England, she meets a charming pub owner named Noah, whose own family history is similarly twisted. As the mystery deepens around a damaged inheritance and a tragic death, Charli is resolved to find the truth—and create the fresh start she has been hoping for her whole life.
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Friendship, betrayal, and survival collide in Last Summer on State Street, a PEN Open Book Award finalist set in the Robert Taylor Homes of 1999 Chicago.
Last Summer on State Street
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Friendship, betrayal, and survival collide in Last Summer on State Street, a PEN Open Book Award finalist set in the Robert Taylor Homes of 1999 Chicago. As her world crumbles, Fe Fe clings to the fragile bonds of girlhood, only to find that not all will survive. Toya Wolfe’s stunning debut is unforgettable, heartfelt, and powerfully told.
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In the summer of 1999, Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens lives in the crumbling Robert Taylor Homes of Chicago, just one building away from demolition. With her tight-knit crew—devout Precious, tough Stacia, and the mysterious newcomer Tonya—Fe Fe navigates girlhood, Double Dutch, and danger in a world where safety is fleeting.
But as their friendships unravel and families fracture, Fe Fe is forced to confront betrayal, grief, and the painful truths that come with growing up. Decades later, haunted by that fateful summer, she returns to the rubble of her past, seeking peace in the memories and people she’s never fully let go.
Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street is a luminous coming-of-age debut—honest, heartbreaking, and fiercely hopeful. A PEN Open Book finalist and an instant modern classic.
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Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours.
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is a sweeping, emotional saga spanning generations—from a 1920s circus to a DNA test in 2015. Family, love, and long-buried secrets collide in this immersive novel praised by Lisa Wingate and rated 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours. Click to discover Cecily’s hidden past.
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In 1924, Cecily Larson is just four years old when her mother leaves her at a Chicago orphanage—promising to return. She never does.
By seven, Cecily is sold to a traveling circus, where she finds belonging with a daring bareback rider and a band of misfits who feel like family. But under the glitz and sawdust lies heartbreak, and when young love turns to tragedy, Cecily’s future changes forever.
Ninety years later, a surprise DNA test threatens to unravel everything her descendants think they know.
From circus tents to family secrets, The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is a sweeping, heartfelt tale of survival, lost love, and the complicated truths we carry. Fans of Orphan Train and Water for Elephants, this is your next unforgettable read.
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Freedom becomes a liability when power decides who belongs.
The Last Carolina Girl
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Freedom becomes a liability when power decides who belongs. In The Last Carolina Girl, fourteen-year-old Leah Payne is torn from her coastal home after tragedy and placed in a household built on silence and control. As prejudice and institutional cruelty close in, she must defend her body, her future, and her right to choose who she becomes. The novel delivers a stark historical portrait of autonomy, resilience, and survival.
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"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own
Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...
For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.
When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.
Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
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