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Alessandro Catorcini

In 1291 Genoa, the merchant Ugolino Vivaldi contracts two galleys to sail west toward India, a route no Christian ship has charted. Across ledgers and landfalls, his venture unfolds through the meticulous records of clerks and factors—the rope counted, the provisions weighed, the dead tallied—as the voyage deepens into a grim accumulation of silences and returns. Built on bureaucratic ritual and procedural detail, this historical novel traces how ambition and mathematics collide with an unknowable ocean, where the only certainty is the weight of what cannot be found.

Christopher Whittaker

Two young German men form different walks of life are thrown into the cauldron of the trenches of WW1. They meet during deployment in a new type of warfare , the Storm trooper , a tactic designed to break the mass attacks of the Trenches by using small independent units to infiltrate enemy lines. When the guns fall silent they return to a broken Germany, economic collapse, Political upheaval and a rising hatred in te population with te rise of anew political party. It is here the men find that the cost of peace is higher than the price of war.

Audrey Finch

She knows her brother wouldn’t abandon her. But she is discovering how much she doesn’t know about him. Glasgow, 1988. Eighteen-year-old Pat Devine has pink hair, a university course she’s been neglecting, and an older brother who has always been there for her. Since their parents died, Tom has been the one person she could count on. Then he disappears. A parcel addressed to Tom contains a hollowed-out Bible and a key. Following it, Pat discovers her brother’s secret life as a private investigator—and a trail leading to a struggling Dundee jute mill, where he is accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds. Pat is certain Tom is no thief. Finding him, however, will take more than certainty. Ruth, the mill owner’s daughter, offers a way inside. Fiercely protective of her father and passionate about the business, she is also someone Pat finds increasingly difficult to resist. Working together gives Pat hope of finding Tom. Being together offers something she hadn’t expected to find at all. But missing stock is only a small part of what is happening at the mill. As Pat uncovers connections between Dundee’s docks and Glasgow’s streets, she must learn to question the people she wants to believe—and recognise how her own loyalties shape what she sees. What Lies Within is a psychological crime novel about family, desire, moral compromise and the choices people make to protect what they cannot bear to lose. With a lesbian protagonist, a sharp Scottish voice and a relationship at its emotional heart, it introduces Pat, Tom and Davie: three people whose different instincts will become the foundation of The Devine Trio. Book One of The Devine Trio.

Sydney Lee

A war he didn't believe in. A promise he couldn't break. Raised by an abolitionist, Harrison Sartain fights for the Confederacy to protect his brother and best friend. Based on true Civil War records, this haunting saga follows one man's vow to bring them all home alive—no matter the cost.

Jay Ruud

Will Scarlet’s childhood sweetheart is brutally murdered in his home town, and as he tries to find the killer, Robin Hood faces Guy of Gisbourne’s threat, who has raised an army to challenge him as well as his protector, Countess Lydia. Can Will find the killer and save Robin from slaughter at the same time?

Tim Vicary

Dublin, 1919. As Michael Collins orchestrates a shadow war against British rule, Catherine O'Connell-Gort—a medical student caught between her republican convictions and aristocratic family—finds herself entangled with Sean Brennan, a man willing to kill for Ireland's freedom. When a murder pins her to a crime she didn't commit, Catherine must navigate a treacherous landscape of double agents, coded intelligence, and impossible choices, where survival means betraying everyone she loves and her only ally may be the very man sent to destroy her. In this visceral portrait of revolutionary Ireland, no one is innocent and every decision bleeds.

HUGELIN Laurent

La méthode de Monnet considéré comme un des pères fondateurs de l’Europe n’est pas née d’une théorie. Elle s’est construite dans la pratique du ravitaillement en temps de guerre, la gestion des dettes d’Etat, l’organisation du financement du développement de la Chine, le développement d’une industrie de l’aviation militaire, et les échecs de la France et de la Grande Bretagne à se préparer à la guerre de 1940. EN 1940, à 52 ans, Jean Monnet ne parlait pas encore directement de construction européenne.

Dr Eron Khomina (PhD)

The system is broken, and the middle class is paying the price. For decades, working hard and playing by the rules was the guaranteed ticket to financial security. Today, that promise is gone. Caught in a fatal macroeconomic trilemma of soaring living costs, rampant fiat currency debasement, and a global financial system maxed out on terminal leverage, the modern middle class is being systematically fractured in plain sight. Dr. Eron Khomina (PhD) draws on three decades of institutional quantitative finance and macroeconomics experience across major financial hubs in Asia and Europe to deliver a data-driven autopsy of the dying monetary paradigm. Across its chapters, the guide exposes key systemic issues: * The Zero-Interest Rate Illusion: How Quantitative Easing created the Everything Bubble. * The Statistical Mirage: The mechanics used to disguise real inflation metrics. * The Programmable Cage: The shift toward Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Integrating insights aligned with the economic perspectives of Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Professor Steve Hanke, and Frank Giustra, this 32-chapter manual offers strategic approaches for navigating the evolving financial landscape. It serves as a tactical book for absolute self-reliance, helping households transition into autonomous Micro-Fortresses ahead of the global economic reset. *Stop just getting by. Read the definitive guide to understanding and overcoming the middle class squeeze today.

Darren Anderson

Two men. Two loyalties. One war that will change them both. When Roman soldiers destroy his home and take his father from him, Sinna is left with grief, anger, and a fierce determination to defend his people. His only constant companion is a half-wild dog that refuses to leave his side—a bond formed on the night everything else is lost. Across the frontier, Aquila is a seasoned Roman legionary who has spent years serving an empire that demands obedience, endurance, and sacrifice. Campaign after campaign has taught him how to survive, but it has also begun to erode the certainty he once carried into battle. As Trajan’s brutal conquest of Dacia gathers force, Sinna fights for homeland and identity while Aquila faces the cost of duty from within the invading army. Their stories move through the same war from opposing sides, revealing the loyalty, grief, trauma, and moral pressure hidden beneath Rome’s victories. Lupus et Aquila: The Wolf and the Eagle is the first book in The Aquila Chronicles—a character-driven historical novel about survival, the cost of empire, and the humanity that remains on both sides of a battlefield.

Baden James Scholefield

Djungari is an epic Australian historical romance and family saga that spans war, wilderness, and generations of memory. When Sarah returns to Broken Creek Station in Far North Queensland, she inherits more than her grandfather’s journal. Within its pages lies the story of Ryan Brooks, a young Australian stockman whose life is forever changed by the outbreak of the First World War. From the devastation of Gallipoli and the Somme, to a chance meeting with an English nurse during a London bombing raid, Ryan’s journey becomes one of courage, love, loss, and survival. But this is more than a wartime love story. Set against the vast beauty of the Australian outback, Djungari is also a sweeping story of frontier life, family legacy, and the spiritual power of country. As Sarah uncovers the past, she is drawn into a world shaped by old loyalties, buried grief, and the mystery of the white crocodile—a symbol that binds generations together. Rich in atmosphere and emotion, Djungari will appeal to readers of Australian historical fiction, family sagas, and deeply rooted stories of love, romance and belonging.

Jonathan Orr-Stav

Capping their long career of joint sleuthing, Holmes and Watson embark on a last hurrah to crack perhaps the biggest mystery of history—the clues for which lie in a remote corner of the Sinai Desert. In a case where the villain is time and the crime is oblivion, Holmes' insight succeeds where the leading archaeologists and scholars of the age fail—all while wrangling grouchy camels and dodging overly keen Ottoman soldiers.

Charley Brindley

Saxon, along with his sister, Kaitlin and her daughter, Rachel, traveled by river boat to Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon. Kaitlin had worked on her ethnopharmacopeia for years and now she wanted to locate the village of Alichapon-tupec where she believed she would find rare and exotic medicinal plants. She needed to collect specimens and learn from the Yanomami natives about their use of the plants. This would fill out the last chapter of her manuscript. An unusual young woman they met on the dock at Manaus changed their plans. They hired the woman to be their guide. She spoke no English or Portuguese while Saxon and Kaitlin understood not a word of her Yanomani language. However, Rachel at the age of seven, having collided with the language barrier many times in their worldwide travels, communicated to the native woman by primitive sign language that they wanted to go upriver to find strange plants. Apparently the woman understood. She led them to a dugout canoe and helped load their gear, then when everyone was on board, including Rachel’s dog, Hero, she shoved off and began paddling upstream. Saxon, in the stern of the canoe, took up a paddle and wondered if they had just stolen someone’s boat.

Rob Swigart

THE INQUISITION IS BACK! AND THIS TIME THEY HAVE TECHNOLOGY. An action-packed unraveling of the secrets of ancient history mixed in with a chilling conspiracy that brings to mind Dan Brown’s bestseller INFERNO. “Swigart is one of the few thriller writers with a poetic sense … [who] knows how to give high velocity to an action mystery.” -San Francisco Chronicle Papyrologist Lisa Emmer’s world flips when the Surete meets her at her Metro station with news of the savage murder of the esteemed Paris historian Dr. Raimond Foix, her friend and mentor in the study of ancient documents. Horrified, Lisa finds clues at the crime scene left behind for her by her mentor—clues to a secret kept hidden for centuries. These clues make her a prime suspect in the murder investigation, and also put her directly in the cross-hairs of a deadly commando group that proves to be none other than a contemporary offshoot of the Inquisition. They want an ancient document that reveals a secret so explosive it could change the world—a document they’ve been tracking for centuries. Led by a sadistic priest and a vicious but very accomplished nun with excellent military cred, their mission is to destroy the document—no matter what the cost in blood.

Brendan McCauley

Jesus Christ in 57 Bible Dreams is a comprehensive biblical theology of dreams, tracing every identifiable dream in Scripture through a single Christological lens: each dream exists to protect, advance, or authenticate the Messianic lineage. Written by a practitioner-theologian with twelve years of dedicated research, this is the most systematically ambitious evangelical treatment of biblical dreaming available to general Christian readers. It is for serious Bible students who want both doctrinal rigor and devotional fire in a single volume.

Ross Connelly

A young American woman goes to Moscow State as the Soviet Union is collapsing, quietly encouraged by American intelligence to build relationships with the Russians who may inherit the country. Instead, she becomes emotionally entangled with the people and country she was sent to observe. In Moscow, Chloe Hunter finds a friend and confidante in Gabby Pasternak, her Romanian roommate, and draws close to Alexi Fedorov, an ambitious young law graduate destined for the Russian Foreign Ministry. As the Soviet world around them begins to unravel, their friendships challenge Chloe’s understanding of loyalty, family, and where she belongs. A chance encounter with Ryan Chandler, an independent American petroleum engineer working in western Siberia, draws Chloe deeper into Russia’s vast interior. When sabotage threatens Ryan’s life in a catastrophic well blowout, Chloe can no longer remain merely an observer. Against the upheaval of a country reinventing itself, Chloe must decide which loyalties are inherited, which are chosen—and who she intends to become.

Emery Grange

Frances Swett has bruised wrists hidden beneath cream kid gloves and a dangerous secret: she's a suffragette masquerading as a prospective duchess. When forced into close quarters with a powerful aristocrat whose intentions remain opaque, she discovers that the gilded cage she's agreed to enter may be far more complex than she imagined. Torn between the cause she's sacrificed everything for and a life of privilege that demands her silence, Frances must navigate a world of diplomatic intrigue and unspoken histories where every choice carries consequences she cannot yet foresee. A portrait of a woman caught between two irreconcilable identities, searching for autonomy in a world determined to contain her.

V.E.H. Masters

A brutal murder. A castle under siege. A family torn apart by the Scottish Reformation. Scotland, 1546. When Protestant rebels seize St Andrews Castle and assassinate Cardinal Beaton, the most powerful man in Scotland, young Will Seton joins the occupiers, convinced he is fighting for a better future. His sister Bethia fears he has made a terrible mistake. As the castle comes under siege and Scotland edges towards religious war, Bethia watches her family become caught between powerful forces beyond their control. While Will endures hunger, fear and mounting despair behind the castle walls, Bethia must decide how far she is willing to go to save the brother she loves—even if it means risking everything. But this is more than a conflict between brother and sister. As Henry VIII pressures Scotland to surrender its independence and secure the marriage of the infant Mary Queen of Scots to his son, the future of an entire nation hangs in the balance. Based on the dramatic true events of the Siege of St Andrews Castle, The Castilians is a gripping tale of faith, loyalty, courage and survival during one of the most turbulent periods in Scottish history. The Castilians is Book One of The Seton Chronicles, an award-winning and best-selling historical fiction series spanning Scotland, Venice, France and Constantinople during the turbulent years of the Reformation 'Historical Fiction at its absolute best.' — Booklymatters 'By the end, I found myself hoping for a sequel, which shows how much I enjoyed this excellent novel.' — Historical Novel Society 'A clever blend of fact and fiction… gripping action, drama galore, and a dash of romance.' — Margaret Skea, Winner of the Beryl Bainbridge Prize 'I highly recommend this intriguing novel.' — Jean M. Roberts, The Books Delight 'The darker side of St Andrews Castle's history, written with such delightful detail I could almost taste and smell the medieval streets of the historic town.' — Lynsey Maxwell

Uri J. Nachimson

The Second Door is a dark historical novel set in Tuscany in the year 1400, when cities, monasteries, noble families, and bankers struggled for power, money, faith, and control. In Cortona, an ancient city perched above the Val di Chiana, a hidden battle unfolds behind walls, prayers, and sacred rituals. Above ground, people pray to Saint Margaret and beg for mercy. Beneath the stones, behind curtains and secret doors, a clandestine brotherhood uses fear, religion, and disease to shape the fate of the city. Lorenzo de’ Federici, a cold and dangerous churchman, understands that real power does not always lie in the sword. It lies in rumor, forged documents, public panic, and the ability to place blame where people are already prepared to believe it. Standing against him is Obadiah d’Ancona, a cautious and intelligent Jewish banker from Siena, who knows that survival sometimes depends on recognizing danger before it receives an official name. Around him move people whose power does not count: Matteo, a simple boy from Camucia searching for Maria; Bianca, a servant who learns to turn silence into courage; Lucrezia, a woman humiliated by society but not blinded by it; and men who understand that truth is often hidden exactly where no one wishes to look. When a mysterious illness spreads through Cortona, the city begins to search for someone to blame. The poor are blamed for filth, the Jews for poisoning, and the priests for sins they place on others. Forged notes, wells, cellars, poisons, and debts become part of one dangerous conspiracy. The Second Door is a novel about antisemitism, debt, false holiness, young love, public fear, and the price paid by those whose names are rarely remembered, yet without whom the truth would never come to light. In the end, the man falls, but the system learns to walk under another name.

K.C. Mitchell

A forbidden love. A brutal war. A passion punishable by death. Georgia, 1861. Sophie Johansson has spent her life doing what is expected of her—until the man she loves marches off to war and her parents force her into marriage with a cruel plantation owner old enough to be her father. Trapped in a beautiful house that feels like a prison, Sophie discovers a world of suffering she can no longer ignore. Then she meets Hezekiah, the enslaved man her husband controls: powerful enough to frighten other men, honorable enough to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and gentle enough to awaken every part of Sophie she has been taught to silence. Their connection offers the first honest comfort either has known. Their stolen moments become a refuge. And as forbidden desire deepens into an all-consuming affair, Sophie and Hezekiah dare to imagine something the law, society, and her husband would never allow—a life chosen for themselves. But the Civil War is closing in. Her husband is growing suspicious. One careless glance could expose a love punishable by death. And when their passion creates a secret Sophie cannot hide forever, survival will demand more than deception. It will require courage, sacrifice, and a reckoning that transforms an obedient daughter into a woman determined to reclaim her body, her voice, and her future.

Jonathan Orr-Stav

Snapshots of three critical junctions in Hebrew history: the preamble to the Book of Genesis; the invention of the biblical forefather Isaac; and the world’s second Hebrew-speaking country (after Israel), founded in the near future. All three are studies of hitherto undocumented (what-if?) episodes, as a means of understanding the existing history of the Hebrew/Israelite/Jewish/Israeli people as we know it today. With that forgiving mindset, make of them what you will.