Category: Reviews
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Top Historical Fiction Picks October 2025
October is really the beginning of Fall, the beginning of cozy nights by the fire, crisp mornings, and walking through piles of fallen leaves. It’s also time for amazing new historical fiction! Here are my picks for the best ones this month, BEST COVER On a Sundown Sea by Jill G. Hall (San Diego, early…
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Top Picks Historical Fiction September 2025
This month I’m celebrating the first birthday of my seventh novel! Innocents at Home is heritage fiction, based on two ancestors of mine who were on the cruise that inspired Mark Twain’s novel Innocents Abroad. But that was last year. Let’s look at new releases for September of 2025. BEST COVER Roland’s Labyrinth by Anne…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks for August 2025
Do you remember when September was Back-to-School Month and not August? I do. At any rate, whether you have scholars heading back to the classroom or not, I hope you find time to explore the many delightful historical novels being released this month. BEST COVER Daughter of the Tarot by Clare Marchant (August 18) “A…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks July 2025
Congratulations to lantern C. V. Lee! Her newest novel, Her Noble Groom, comes out July 24. Don’t miss it! It is a poignant medieval romance about forbidden love, second chances, and the courage to follow your heart. She is a daughter of the gentry. He is a servant. When war shatters her world, he becomes…
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Top Historical Fiction Picks June 2025
(This post originally appeared on paperlanternwriters.com) June brings us summer and a whole batch of new historical fiction! Isn’t it wonderful how they just keep coming? BEST COVER The Moonlit Maze by Zoe Marriott (June 5) “A hidden maze with secrets in its walls. A young woman on a journey to unravel the truth…Fated lovers?…