Posts Tagged: historical fiction

The Winter Rose by Melanie Dobson

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 by Sarah Sundin

During World War II, American Quaker Grace Tonquin works tirelessly to transport Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France over the dangerous Pyrenees into safety, a road ultimately taking Grace and some of the children back to Oregon, the home of her has-been movie star mother – the very place Grace longed to escape. In 2003, Addie Hoult is desperate to help a friend. Charlie has been like a father to her, eve... Read Article

The Lines Between Us by Amy Lynn Green

Monday, April 11, 2022 by Sarah Sundin

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a budding romance between Dorie Armitage and Gordon Hooper is clipped short as Dorie is appalled by Gordon’s pacifism. Worse, in Dorie’s eyes, Gordon influences her brother Jack into becoming a conscientious objector. Dorie herself enlists in the Women’s Army Corps, even though her penchant for defying rules makes military life rather difficult for her. As cons... Read Article

Yours Is the Night by Amanda Dykes

Friday, April 8, 2022 by Sarah Sundin

All Mireilles has ever known is living in the Argonne woods with only her beloved father and grandfather. But then the Great War leaves her alone and in danger she can’t begin to fathom. Matthew Petticrew serves in the US Army, quiet and serious, with a deep need for the belonging he has never known in his lonely life. Out in the trenches, Matthew is surrounded by a mismatched band of misfits. Henry, the farm b... Read Article

A Rose for the Resistance by Angela K. Couch

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 by Sarah Sundin

In June 1940, Rosalie Barrieau watches in horror as the Nazis invade her beloved French village of Sainte-Mère-Église and execute her boyfriend, and as her young brother joins the Resistance. She just wants to keep the family nursery blooming and to protect her withdrawn mother. However, as Nazi brutality increases in the next few years, she decides she can no longer remain passive. Injured German SS soldier Franz ... Read Article

The Mozart Code by Rachel McMillan

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Sarah Sundin

In postwar Vienna, Simon Barre and Sophie Villiers, who formerly cracked codes at Britain’s Bletchley Park, are now fighting a new war, a cold war. Simon is determined to bring down a ring of communists who want to cause an uprising in Vienna and turn the nation to their cause. He begins receiving cryptic notes using chess notation from a man called “Das Flüstern” – The Whisper – a man ... Read Article

A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

Half-English and half-Indian, Ottilie Russell doesn’t fit in either culture in Calcutta in 1886. Life has become more difficult since the death of her mother, and Ottilie just manages to support her beloved grandmother and her little brother Thaddeus through her skill with beetle-wing embroidery. Then her English grandmother, whom Ottilie has never met, sends an intriguing young man named Everett Scott to Calcu... Read Article

No Journey Too Far by Carrie Turansky

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

In 1919, Grace Hamilton is being prepared by her wealthy parents to make her debut in Toronto society. But Grace longs to find information about the family she remembers as a little girl – when she was shipped from England to Canada with the British Home Children and separated from her brother and sisters. Her parents, however, insist she lie about her background for fear that the stigma against the British Hom... Read Article

Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin

Until Leaves Fall in Paris – Cover Reveal!

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

Two Americans in Nazi-occupied Paris. A war divides them. A bookstore unites them. Today I’m pleased to reveal the cover for my upcoming novel, Until Leaves Fall in Paris, which is scheduled to release from Revell Books on February 1, 2022. This is the second of three standalone novels, each following Americans living in Nazi Europe before and during World War II. Until Leaves Fall in Paris is now available for... Read Article

The Curator’s Daughter by Melanie Dobson

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

In 1940, German archaeologist Hanna Tillich is forced to marry an SS officer and leave her work in the field, searching for artifacts that will bolster the Nazis’ prized theories of racial superiority. Consigned to a job in Nuremberg cataloging artworks being placed in storage, Hanna comes to realize the art comes from Jewish families – who are disappearing. Meanwhile, Hanna’s husband suddenly bring... Read Article

The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambron

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 by Sarah Sundin

When the Nazis occupy Paris, high-fashion dressmaker Lila de Laurent finds work designing gowns for the girlfriends of Nazi officers staying at the Hôtel Ritz – and finds much information to pass on to the resistance. The last thing she expects is to be thrust back into the company of her former love, René Trouliard, heir to a fortune and on the run due to his part-Jewish heritage. Meanwhile, Sandrine Paquet ... Read Article

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Posts Tagged: historical fiction