Evie Kilgaren is a fighter. Abandoned by her mother and with her father long gone, she is left to raise her siblings in dockside Liverpool, as they battle against the coldest winter on record. But she is determined to make a life for herself and create a happy home for what's left of her family.

Desperate for work, Evie takes a job at...

Manchester 1819: Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform.

Mill-worker Nancy Kay struggles to support her ailing mother and sensitive son. Desperate to provide for them, she is inspired to join the growing agitation. But, as she risks everything to attend a great assembly on St Peter’s...

It’s thirteenth-century Europe and a young monk, Michael Scot, has been asked by the Holy Roman Emperor to translate the works of Aristotle and recover his ‘lost’ knowledge.

The Scot sets to his task, travelling from the Emperor’s Italian court to the translation schools of Toledo and from there to the Moorish library of Córdoba. But when the Pope deems...

Crossover, diverse historical fiction that explores 1890s Atlanta through the eyes of its brilliantly talented Chinese-american heroine

Corruption is at the core of the English justice system…

London, 1963

Barrister Charles Holborne may have just escaped the hangman by proving he was framed for murder, but his life is now in ruins. His wife is dead, his high-flying career has morphed into criminal notoriety, and bankruptcy threatens.

So it seems too good to be true when...

Two female spies. A banned masterpiece. A book that changed history.
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A BANNED MASTERPIECE

1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it.

But in the rest of the world it’s fast becoming a sensation.

TWO FEMALE SPIES

The CIA...

Homeless and jobless following the death of his adoptive parents, Sebastian enrols at a college of natural medicine which boasts a sanctuary modelled on an ancient Greek healing centre. After a night in the temple, he dreams of Apollos, a young Athenian defeated in a pankration contest, suffering memory loss. More dreams follow, decrypted by Sybil, the...

Can a free-spirited tomboy learn to fit in with respectable society…?

1799, Suffolk

When her father dies in battle, seventeen-year-old Isolde Cavanagh is forced to rely on the protection of an old family friend.

But when she arrives at the imposing estate of Bawdsey Grange it seems her would-be guardian has died. And his son Richard de...

Three journeys. One road.

 England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.

Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will...

London, 1890: Alberto Pelucci is young and wide-eyed when he steps off the boat from Italy and into the bustling heart of London. Dreaming of adventure and romance, he is determined to fall in love and find an English wife. And when Alberto meets the beautiful, but shy, Alice, it seems his dreams have come true.

Blinded by the excitement of first love...

In the battle between love and duty, the heart has the most to lose…

Despite his previous irksomeness, Lord Julian Wade has become a dear confidant to Portia Hayes. He’s proven attentive, honorable, clever, and would make many a lady a fine catch. Not herself, alas. Wade has naught but lint in his pockets, and Portia is expected to make an advantageous...

A deadly game of cat and mouse — but who has the upper hand?

Eastern Europe, 1964

Three men and a woman are seated in a train carriage travelling from Istanbul to Vienna.

As they cross the Bulgarian border, a fourth man enters and joins them. That man ends up dead.

The other passengers get to work transforming a British agent into a...

London, 1471. The War of the Roses rages on . . .

Edward of York has claimed the English throne and his Yorkist supporters gleefully slaughter their adversaries; there’s no mercy for anyone who supported the Lancastrian cause.

Margaret Beaufort—mother of Henry Tudor, the only hope for the House of Lancaster—knows her enemies are closing in. Desperate for...

April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside – and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest – but this is an investigation where nothing...

1930. Frances Black is worried – divorce proceedings are under way and her solicitor has learnt of a spiteful letter sent to the court claiming that there is more to her friendship with her sleuthing partner, Tom Dod, than meets the eye. Fran takes Tom’s advice to get away, travelling down to Devon to help the Edgertons with their family mystery. After...

Territory of Colorado, 1864. Millie and Dom Drouillard return with more murder, mayhem, and misadventures in J.v.L. Bell’s latest novel, Denver City Justice.

The newlyweds are barely settled into wedded bliss when their neighbor the Widow Ferris is found dead with an icicle piercing her cold heart. Suspects abound—Widow Ferris has been blackmailing most of...

Summer 1944: Stranded behind enemy lines in France, eighteen-year-old Katrinka Badeau escapes German deserters with the help of Major Willoughby Nye. Once an employee on her father’s merchant ship, Nye is now part of an undercover Jedburgh operation, working for the Allies. When he offers her a job on his team, she accepts.

Her work throws her together...

“The bill always comes due…” Jay Sherman is the American Dream come true: a self-made man who worked himself up from the streets to the upper echelons of moneyed society. But when his son Robert, a promising Democratic presidential candidate, is shot before his eyes, Sherman’s world spins into chaos. Threats on his life and that of his estranged daughter...

In 8th-century Europe, a clash of cultures and religions inevitably leads to a clash of swords. This harsh, changing world suits Björn the Beautiful, who has a single passion: violence. His bloodlust led to his exile from his native land, and it’s his bloodlust that brings him back. For Harald, it’s the season of Jul and he’s about to marry the gorgeous...

Creative non-fiction. Set in Vietnam and on college campuses from Fall 1967 to Spring 1970.

Two orphans flee for their lives during the last crusade of the French against the Cathar heretics in the Midi.

With no knowledge of their past, they are drawn onward to an uncertain future where they face unimaginable peril. Will they discover the secret of their origins and fulfill their destiny?

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A TIMELESS TALE OF PASSION AND DECEIT

When Charlotte Ryan visits her family in Dorset she is happy to escape her orderly existence, but is unable to run away from the disillusion of marriage in 1920’s England. So when her mother offers Charlotte a chance to travel abroad to see an old...

Riot and Retribution is an historical fiction novel set in Bath and Bristol in October of 1831. The historical backdrop of the book is the great Reform Bill of 1831. The government has pledged to give the vote to the wealthy middle class, and the poor are hoping that democracy will also extend to them, but the House of Lords is determined to oppose the...

In 1514 a respected London Merchant, Richard Hunne, was found hanging in Old St Paul’s Cathedral. Whether it was murder or suicide was hotly debated but popular opinion, endorsed more recently by many historians, pointed to foul play by church officials. Around this central mystery, Dale has woven a story of murder, church politics and forbidden texts in...

"Romance, Revenge, and Rio create the perfect storm that will have you on the edge of your seat as you find yourself time traveling back to an era and an exotic place so full of danger and intrigue, you won't want After All to ever end."
~ John Livesay, TEDx speaker and author of Better Selling Through Storytelling

World War II in Europe ended officially on...

It’s Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1940’s - full of smuggled art, USSR spies, and FBI agents.

In the midst of it all is Quinn Chase, a former police detective turned Private Investigator trying to start a new career after being fired by the Albuquerque Police Department.

Quinn seeks one painting above all others......"Five Dancing Women...

Adam de Guirande owes his lord, Roger Mortimer, much more than loyalty. He owes Lord Roger for his life and all his worldly goods, he owes him for his beautiful wife – even if Kit is not quite the woman Lord Roger thinks she is. So when Mortimer rises in rebellion against the king, Adam has no choice but to ride with him – no matter what the ultimate cost...

A runaway girl, a flapper with a camera, a Valentino with secrets—and a terrible time to fall in love.

On a disastrous August night in 1924, 14-year-old Tenny Chance flees from a sharecropper's shack on a Georgia plantation, determined to find her brother and a job in order to save her family. Two days later, 17-year-old flapper Augusta Pemberton and her...

In this three-part, coming-of-age novel set in 1960s Britain, young George lives with his extended family by the sea, where his striking looks and talent for dance attract attention. But a sudden move to London and placement in a boarding school shatter his confidence. He’s caught in a destructive relationship and develops an alternate personality. His...

In the summer of 1862, as the exploding Civil War tears the nation apart, Cage Carew, a self-admitted Bohemian and soft handed academic living just north of the Ohio River, remains steadfastly disinterested.

Although his fiancée secretly aids escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad crossing the River Jordan, Cage is more interested in his academia…until...

The new historical chiller from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of...

You can pay a terrible price for keeping a promise …

Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, but her lipstick is applied perfectly, and her buttons done up correctly. Because...

Spies and Scots and Shipmasters, oh my!

Scotland 1819

Twin brothers Nash and Robbie Powell of Powell & Sons Shipping, London, sail with their fellow Agents of the Crown to Scotland for a secret celebration of Christmastide, a holiday long frowned upon by the Scottish Kirk. But more than Christmas is being kept secret. The two brothers have accepted an...

Based on a true case, a young man pays the ultimate price for saying what he thinks in this masterful historical novel by a writer at the height of her powers.

Edinburgh in the late 17th century is centre of religious authoritarianism, intolerance and fear. The flames of the city’s famous Enlightenment are yet to burn.

Based on the true story of Thomas...

Paris, 1958. An Algerian waiter at the famous restaurant La Tour d’Argent is convicted of the murder of two customers. As he is awaiting trial, his long-time friend Jerry Moloto helps an opportunistic and ambitious journalist build a case to defend him.

Through Jerry’s testimony the reader discovers that the...

A brilliant new historical mystery series set in the 1850s.

West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root is dug up, the remains of a young woman are found. Harry Probert-Lloyd, a barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has been dreading this discovery. He knows exactly whose bones they are.

Working with his clerk, John Davies, Harry is...

Only a thin sheet of glass separates peace and insanity...

Schizophrenia. An illness with a label so devastating and treatment so harrowing that, in 1939, it could lock you away for life.

When a second world war seems inevitable and you don’t know who to trust, how do you separate paranoia from reality?

Based on a true story, using real letters and personal...

Conrad is a monk, but he has become a monk through trickery and against his will. So, it is fair to say that his heart isn't really in it.

Conrad is also clever, charming, entirely self-serving, self-absorbed and almost completely without scruple — but in Anglo-Saxon England, when the Danish invaders come calling, those are very helpful attributes to...

A guide to the history and characters of MJ Trow's ever-popular 'Lestrade' mystery series.

Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction – and the author is delighted that they can’t always tell! So, for all the readers out there who have ever asked that question, here is the World of Inspector Lestrade. In this book, the lid...

Despite Alfred’s great victory at Edington, Wessex is far from secure.

With the threat of an imminent Viking attack, Matthew, now a warrior, is sent to fortify and defend the ford at Leatherhead. There, hopelessly outnumbered, he faces his sternest test as he and a small band of barely trained Saxon warriors strive to hold out long enough for help to...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR: If you love this era, then you’ll love this book! Two Bent Trees by David G. Tippens is historical fiction at its finest. And look at that cover!

Two Bent Trees is an American Revolutionary War story that begins with the Glynne family of England, whose lives are nearly destroyed by members of the Burntthorne family of British...

In this sweeping story of love and loss, fortune and fate, this masterful storyteller recounts the journeys of the McCabe and Skye families, along with the people who shape their lives, as they strive to make good in the penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land during the early 1800s. The saga chronicles the two families’ trials and triumphs...