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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 …

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 …

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 …

In These Hills is set in Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of Jack Daniel’s Distillery and Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House. But it’s also the home of author Tamera Alexander’s ancestors.

While the story of Josephine isn’t based on the life of a person in Tamera’s family, her familiarity with Lynchburg and …

In author Ryan Steck’s Matthew Redd thriller series, his hero is a former Marine Raider who has traveled all over the globe as part of his military career. When he’s discharged, he sets his sights on his hometown in Montana, eventually settling down on a ranch and starting a family.…

In The Heiress and the Woodsman, heroine Charlotte must head into the Canadian backwoods in search of her brother. To help her navigate the woods, Charlotte hires backwoodsman Joshua, who is looking to save his own brother. While they navigate the treacherous terrain, hidden truths threaten the admiration that …

The Regency time period has captivated romance readers for decades. Its strict customs surrounding propriety and marriage allow for countless tropes, including arranged marriage and marriage of convenience.

In Jenelle Hovde’s The Light of Stars, Kitty Grenville and Sebastian Sinclair enter into the arranged marriage their grandfathers set up …

The Spy Keeper of Marseille is a historical fiction novel about Zelie, a widowed officer’s wife who becomes the leader of a prominent spy ring during World War II, and Marcel, a concert pianist–turned-spy.

Throughout the story, you’ll meet characters in the fictionalized Allied spy ring who put their lives …

In Twenty Something Else, Sutton gets the unexpected opportunity to go from the 2020s—where she’s turning 40—back to the 2000s, to relive her twenties all over again.

Readers travel with Sutton as she chases the what-ifs of her life and takes previously undiscovered paths. And as she becomes reacquainted …