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  Atlantic Holocaust - 346 Years...

  Michael G. Quain

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  Atlantic Holocaust 346 Years takes you on a journey through a very dark passage in history that still affects us today. You join the story from capture in Africa, through slavery in The Americas and eventually freedom.It is an historical account told in a way you have never experienced. The narrator invites you to become a slave and feel the life of a slave. He challenges you to listen from beginning to end as he tells you he did not have the choice to get up and leave when it got to hard for him.It is a work of fiction but it is based on historical facts many of us do not know because it was never taught to us. Through words and music to the sounds of the slaves and the in-slavers, you are taken on a very emotional journey. Across The Sea of Sorrow.

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  A Lost Lady of Old Years

  John Buchan

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  A young man’s yearning for adventure draws him into jeopardy during the Jacobite Rebellion in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Once described as “a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor,” A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of 1745. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing for the Jacobite cause until an encounter with the beautiful Mrs. Margaret Murray leads to a dangerous involvement with her husband, John Murray of Broughton, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s secretary and an infamous turncoat . . .

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  The Pirate Hunter

  Laura Martin

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  A forbidden attraction in paradise between a British aristocrat and a pirate’s sister propels this action-packed, Caribbean-set romantic adventure. 
   
  Shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, pirate hunter William Greenacre is ready to surrender to the seductive pull of the sea when an angelic figure dives to his rescue. Except this angel is none other than Mia Del Torres—and she’s a wanted woman! 
   
  To escape imprisonment, Mia must set sail with Will on his mission of revenge and help track down her brother, the formidable Captain Jorge Del Torres. By rights, she should hate Will, yet below deck their passion ignites. But when the hunters become the hunted, will their newly forged connection be enough to save them both?

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  A Slender Tether

  Jess Wells

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  Amidst the violent weather of Europe's Little Ice Age, "A Slender Tether" offers a novel in linked stories on self-discovery, woven into a rich tapestry of 14th century France. Christine de Pizan, now heralded as Europe's first feminist and brilliant author, grapples with ambition and alienation amid the beautiful women at court. A doctor finds an unusual way to cope with the death of his wife. And opportunity alternates with disasters in the lives of four commoners who are yoked by necessity: a papermaker struggling to keep his business, a falconer with a mysterious past, a merchant's daughter frantic to avoid an arranged marriage, and a down-on-his-luck musician with a broken guitar and the voice of an angel.

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  The Spirit of the Border

  Zane Grey

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  A classic historical western of the eighteenth-century American frontier by the celebrated author of Riders of the Purple Sage.First published in 1906, The Spirit of the Border is a vivid and brutal tale based on true events as chronicled in the journals of Zane Grey’s ancestor Col. Ebenezer Zane. It tells the story of Moravian Church missionaries and their efforts to bring peace to the Ohio Valley—efforts that met a tragic end in the destruction of a Christian Indian settlement known as Gnaddenhutten, or Village of Peace. Set in the midst of the American Revolution, the novel also recounts the brutal exploits of Lewis Wetzel, the infamous hunter known as Deathwind who viewed all Native Americans as his mortal enemies.The Spirit of the Border is the second book in a trilogy based on Zane Grey’s family history, preceded by Betty Zane and followed by The Last Trail.

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  The Bride Wore Scarlet

  Liz Carlyle

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  “Carlyle continues the Fraternitas paranormal Victorian trilogy (after One Touch of Scandal) with sizzling passion and romance.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author Liz Carlyle ushers readers once again inside the mysterious St. James Club, where passion and secrets simmer behind the elegant façade of Victorian London. In her deliciously intriguing The Bride Wore Scarlet, Carlyle does historical romance absolutely right—as a determined young beauty’s desire to gain entrance into the secret all-male society places her under the powerfully sensuous spell of the group’s ruthless and enigmatic leader. Fans of Amanda Quick and Gaelen Foley are going to love this Bride! 
   
  “Carlyle’s lusciously rich characterization, inventive plot spiked with danger and unexpected twists, and deliciously dry sense of humor make The Bride Wore Scarlet a near-perfect read.” —Booklist (starred review) 
   
  “Carlyle delivers a fast-paced pleasure.” —BookPage

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