About Becoming Josephine Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (December 31, 2013) Rose Tascher sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris to trade her Creole black magic culture for love and adventure. She arrives exultant to follow her dreams of attending Court with Alexandre, her elegant aristocrat and soldier husband. But Alexandre dashes her hopes and abandons her […]
Jon Enfield, author of The New Men, on tour July/August 2014
About The New Men Print Length: 303 pages Publisher: Wayzgoose Press (May 14, 2014) For us, the new man, he is one of two things. First, he is the new worker, a man we instruct and investigate until his probation is complete. But also he is an idea. In the foundry, they make parts. On the line, […]
Susan Spann, author of Blade of the Samurai, on tour July/August 2014
About Blade of the Samurai Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books (July 15, 2014) .June, 1565: Master ninja Hiro Hattori receives a pre-dawn visit from Kazu, a fellow shinobi working undercover at the shogunate. Hours before, the shogun’s cousin, Saburo, was stabbed to death in the shogun’s palace. The murder weapon: Kazu’s personal dagger. Kazu says […]
Megan Chance, author of Inamorata, on tour August 2014
About Inamorata Paperback: 420 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 8, 2014) American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice’s expatriate set and find a wealthy patron to support Joseph’s work. […]
Emma Campion, author of A Triple Knot, on tour July 2014
About A Triple Knot Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (July 8, 2014) The critically acclaimed author of The King’s Mistress brings another fascinating woman from history to life in an enthralling story of political intrigue, personal tragedy, and illicit love. Joan of Kent, the renowned beauty and niece of King Edward III, seems blessed with a life of […]
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure, on tour June/July 2014
About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
Jennifer Chiaverini, author of The Spymistress, on tour April/May 2014
About The Spymistress Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Plume (March 25, 2014) Chiaverini, author of the bestseller MRS. LINCOLN’S DRESSMAKER offers another enthralling historical novel set in the Civil War era, inspired by an overlooked hero, the remarkable Elizabeth Van Lew. Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, VA, when her native state seceded in April 1861, her convictions […]
Phyllis T. Smith, author of I Am Livia, on tour April/May 2014
About I Am Livia Paperback: 390 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (May 1, 2014) In this wonderfully imagined historical novel, a noblewoman skirts the political perils and pitfalls of ancient Rome while navigating the dangerous landscape of her own heart. At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting the assassination […]
Kate Breslin, author of For Such a Time, on tour May 2014
About For Such a Time Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (April 1, 2014) In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp […]
Lauren Owen, author of The Quick, on tour May 2014
About The Quick Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Random House (June 17, 2014) An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London. London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he […]