Historical Fiction

  • The Friday Review: We Three Kings

    By Crystal Caudill, Cara Putman, and Angela Ruth Strong Looking for an entertaining Christmas collection that’s not on the Hallmark Channel? Check out the We Three Kings novella collection from Kregel Publications. Three Christian Christmas stories set across different times,… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: We Three Kings
  • The Friday Review: In This Moment (Timeless #2)

    By Gabrielle Meyer Maggie is a timecrosser. She lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. When she goes to sleep in one life, she wakes up in another. But when she turns 21 on January 1st, she will have to decide… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: In This Moment (Timeless #2)
  • The Girl From the Papers

    By Jennifer L. Wright “My mama always told me I would live and die as a nobody. Here at the end… I couldn’t help but wish she’d been right.” And with that opening line, I was completely hooked. Beatrice Carraway… Continue reading

    The Girl From the Papers
  • Specters in the Glass House

    By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and… Continue reading

    Specters in the Glass House
  • The Broken Weathervane

    By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin… Continue reading

    The Broken Weathervane
  • The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion

    By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion
  • The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz

    As Mary at the Covenant Christian Resource Center in Randolph knows, I have been waiting for this book for a year. Laura Frantz releases these historical fiction gems every January and I clear my reading schedule for them. Each book… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz
  • The Friday Review: The Lacemaker

    By Laura Frantz To celebrate the start of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I decided to reread this gem in (almost) real time. This was the first Laura Frantz book I read. Quite a few years ago, my… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Lacemaker
  • The Friday Review: Finding Lady Enderly

    By Joanna Davidson Politano Cinderella meets My Fair Lady in this stunning Gilded Age mystery novel! Raina practically lives on the streets of London where she works as a rag woman and mourns the loss of the sailor she loved.… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: Finding Lady Enderly
  • The Friday Review: The Fur Trader’s Lady

    By Gabrielle Meyer As a kid, I loved reading books about the frontier and the fur trade. Sadly, there’s not a ton of good adult historical fiction on the subject, so I was eager to read this new release by… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Fur Trader’s Lady