Historical Fiction

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided....

Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....

Two sisters, separated by years and experience, each embark on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII France.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell....

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age....

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster....

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier comes a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate....

From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....

he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....

In every life there is a turning point - a moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton....

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....

Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times best-selling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school....

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history....

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

Tattooed and troubled are not the top qualities I am looking for in a man, but that is exactly what I found… Luke Whitmore, youngest of the billionaire Branson Brothers, is a troublemaker—just ask anyone in this small town. When an injured horse forces us together, we butt heads right away. But soon, his unexpected sweet side reels me in. The way he cares for the horse; I can’t help imagining him caring for me and my baby the same way. But Luke has a seedy past and his friends from that life won’t let him forget it. Can I have that kind of man around me and my baby? Can he leave his...

On the rivers, canals, and streams of the Mekong Delta the brown water Navy carried the men of the 2nd brigade, 9th Infantry Division to battle along narrow canals and rivers to landings deep in the delta. The sailors came from all over the Navy to do a dangerous job in horrible conditions. Their small boats were heavily armed and armored, but the Viet Cong leaned their weaknesses. They brought in weapons that could penetrate the armor and built bunkers that could resist the boat’s weapons. Operating on narrow canals and rivers, sometimes no wider than 100 feet, the boats were especially ...

Berlin, 1944. Edith Falkenstein weeps with joy when the crowds of brave women protesting on Rosenstrasse manage to save their Jewish relatives, including her husband Julius, from deportation to the camps.

Lies. Adultery. Betrayal. Murder. Hattie Durham committed some Unthinkable Sins in her lifetime, but now she’s gone, leaving her three sons and their wives behind to deal with the fallout.

November 1605. Becket Bramble once again finds himself thrust back to the past, his magical pendant propelling him into the midst of the Gunpowder Plot. When Becket saves the life of a persecuted boy, he is befriended by a Jesuit priest, Father Thomas, and is enlisted by the band of religious fanatics determined to send King James and his nobles to damnation.

All of London is abuzz about the newest scandal: Poison Pen Letters. These letters, written anonymously, are plaguing the upper classes and include highly personal and damning information that could ruin numerous reputations. And guess who happens to be investigating them? The highly irritable Inspector Grant Stirling. Just as ornery and difficult as he’s always been, it seems I can’t stop crossing paths with the cantankerous man. When my closest friend, Lady Caroline Ashmore, receives her own detestable letter with allegations that are too lewd for respectable eyes, I decide to get involved.

My Sister, My Protector is based on the true story of one family. It covers three generations of abuse, starting with seventeen-year-old Mary. If you or anyone you know can relate to this story, there is help. Please talk to someone.

Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha strive to protect their unconventional family.

Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.

Jilly Chastain never lies. But when her mother fabricates a marriage between Jilly and her childhood sweetheart, Grayson Hancock, she goes along with it, never expecting Grayson to show up, ready to make their make-believe marriage real.

~His quest for innovation…Her conquest for endearment~ Materials engineer Mason Porter rescues HR director Glori Dawes when a platform collapses under her at the kickoff presentation for Coleman Company’s “America Goes Camping” campaign. To return the favor, Glori selects Mason as her camping husband, which launches a filming adventure through three national parks. When admiration kindles a deeper spark, Mason will have to force the issue regarding the ring on her finger that represents her vow with the devious Marketing director in charge of the campaign. Is it phony—or matrimony...

My client is a successful investor yet a damaged ex-Navy SEAL. His cold, controlling, Icy blue eyes saw right through me. Adrien Larsen is a dangerous combination of raw intensity and ruthless power, Yet here he is, proposing a fake relationship with me, and I could pass as his daughter. I grudgingly agreed to become his fake girlfriend to save my best friend’s struggling business. I meticulously observed everything he did to irk me. Yet, I daydream about him between the sheets: his chiseled jawline and sexy body that ignite a fire between my thighs. But our carefully constructed facade ...

Steamy ◆ Twisty ◆ Dangerous What does a woman do when three shifters target her… and don’t want to share? Alyssa Bad a$$ agent with a mission… one that doesn’t include fending off three shifters lu$ting after her. Rafe An alpha who thinks he’s in charge. Alyssa would be perfect for him and his wolf. If she weren’t human. Tiernan A shifter going feral. Tiernan needs to blood-bond Alyssa to keep from going feral. Can he explain the ramifications of the blood-bond to a human before his wolf seizes control? Maddox A shifter with a secret and a penchant for trouble. Maddox comes ...

GAVIN MATHIS BRINGS LIGHT TO THE COUNTRYSIDE Gavin’s task is to bring electricity to his sleepy hometown of Deer Lick, Missouri. But he doesn't count on his wayward brother's schoolhouse hijinks getting in the way—or the lovely teacher sending his heart into a tailspin. Teacher Irene Delaney is a talented pianist who dreams of making music far beyond her small town. As electricity begins to hum, and then grow, between her and Gavin, she worries that falling for the striking man will douse her big-city plans. Can Gavin convince Irene she can keep her dreams—and the two of them can ...

In the dust of the coal mines, Cassie never imagined her heart could lead her to the brink of ruin. Cassie’s days are spent in the perilous Northumberland coal mines toiling alongside her family. Each day is a struggle against the suffocating dust and despair and toxic gas, yet amidst the bleakness, a tender friendship grows between Cassie and Oliver, the overseer’s son, but as their clandestine love blossoms, their world around them soon crumbles. When mother flees the family home Cassie’s her life is upturned once and Cassie and brother Junior are left to deal with their selfish and...