Author Patricia Raybon’s World War II historical, The Sedalia Code, combines a love story with a code-cracking mystery, while also addressing issues that Black Americans dealt with at the time.
At a prestigious Black finishing school in North Carolina, math teacher Laurette Lowe is asked to look at a cryptic …
Fall is the perfect time to cozy up on cool nights with a book and a hot beverage. You might want a mystery to solve or a historical to immerse yourself in, but why choose when we have four historical mysteries that combine the best of both!
Author Patricia Raybon …
Recently, we invited historical romance authors to spend an hour with us, talking with each other and responding to your reader questions. Tamera Alexander, Jenelle Hovde, Christine Hill Suntz, and Roseanna M. White were so gracious with their time and their expertise during the event!
We received so many wonderful …
In the Southern historical novel The Dogwood Gospel, author Cindy Morgan tells the story of teenaged Charlie. When Charlie runs away from the constricting couple raising her as her own, she works as a trick-horse rider at the Southland Carnival. There, she creates her own version of family among …
As we develop from children into adults, the teenage years often play a significant role in our lives. Our horizons expand, we make and break friendships, we often have our first romances; in short, we discover who we really are.
The same can be said for the main characters in …
In the historical novel Every Given Day, Cathy Gohlke explores how the Spanish flu epidemic and a diabetes diagnosis would have affected the lives of everyday people in 1918.
This novel started with a personal connection to Cathy’s family, which led her down the path of research where she …