Monday, 22 September 2025

The Man in the Stone Cottage by Stephanie Cowell





The Man in the Stone Cottage
By Stephanie Cowell


Publication Date: September 16th, 2025
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Pages: 258
Genre: Historical Fiction


“A haunting and atmospheric historical novel.”
~ Library Journal


In 1846 Yorkshire, the Brontë sisters— Charlotte, Anne, and Emily— navigate precarious lives marked by heartbreak and struggle.


Charlotte faces rejection from the man she loves, while their blind father and troubled brother add to their burdens. Despite their immense talent, no one will publish their poetry or novels.


Amidst this turmoil, Emily encounters a charming shepherd during her solitary walks on the moors, yet he remains unseen by anyone else.


After Emily’ s untimely death, Charlotte— now a successful author with Jane Eyre— stumbles upon hidden letters and a mysterious map. As she stands on the brink of her own marriage, Charlotte is determined to uncover the truth about her sister’s secret relationship. 


The Man in the Stone Cottage is a poignant exploration of sisterly bonds and the complexities of perception, asking whether what feels real to one person can truly be real to another.

Praise


 “A mesmerizing and heartrending novel of sisterhood, love, and loss in Victorian England.”
~ Heather Webb, USA Today bestselling author of Queens of London


“Stephanie Cowell has written a masterpiece.”
~ Anne Easter Smith, author of This Son of York


“With The Man in the Stone Cottage, Stephanie Cowell asks what is real and what is imagined and then masterfully guides her readers on a journey of deciding for themselves.”

~ Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls


“The Brontës come alive in this beautiful, poignant, elegant and so very readable tale. Just exquisite.”

~ M.J. Rose, NYT bestselling author



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Stephanie Cowell

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Stephanie Cowell has been an opera singer, balladeer, founder of Strawberry Opera and other arts venues including a Renaissance festival in NYC.

She is the author of seven novels including Marrying Mozart, Claude & Camille: a novel of Monet, The Boy in the Rain and The Man in the Stone Cottage.  Her work has been translated into several languages and adapted into an opera.

Stephanie is the recipient of an American Book Award.

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Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love by Constance Briones

 
Try Before You Trust:
To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love 
By Constance Briones


Publication Date: 10th January 2024 (eBook) / July (paperback)
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 286 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction

What if Taylor Swift found herself penning songs about love in Elizabethan England when women were required to be chaste, obedient, and silent?

Isabella Whitney, an ambitious and daring eighteen-year-old maidservant turned poet, sets out to do just that. Having risked reputation and virtue by allowing her passions for her employer's aristocratic nephew to get the better of her, Isabella Whitney enters the fray of the pamphlet wars, a scurrilous debate on the merits of women.

She's determined to make her mark by becoming the first woman to write a poem defending women in love, highlighting the deceptive practices of the men who woo them. Her journey to publication is fraught with challenges as she navigates through the male-dominated literary world and the harsh realities of life in sixteenth-century London for a single woman.

Loosely based on the life of Elizabethan poet Isabella Whitney, this is a compelling tale of a young woman's resilience and determination to challenge the status quo and leave her mark in a world that was not ready for her.

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Constance Briones


Constance Briones has a Master's in Woman's History, which informs her writing.

She first learned about the subject of her debut historical fiction novel, the sixteenth-century English poet Isabella Whitney, while doing research for her thesis on literacy and women in Tudor England. Isabella Whitney's gusty personality to defy the conventions of her day, both in her thinking and actions, impressed Constance enough to imagine that she would make a very engaging literary heroine.

As a writer, Constance is interested in highlighting the little-known stories of women in history. She is a contributing writer to Historical Times, an online magazine. When not writing, she lends her time as an educational docent for her town's historical society.

She contently lives in Connecticut with her husband and Maine coon sibling cats, Thor and Percy.

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But One Life: The Story of Nathan Hale by Samantha Wilcoxson



But One Life: The Story of Nathan Hale
By Samantha Wilcoxson


Publication Date: 6th June 2022
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 278
Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction

"If I had ten thousand lives, I would lay them all down."


In the early 1770’s, Nathan Hale is a young philosophy student at Yale. There, he, his brother, and their friend, Ben Tallmadge, are busying themselves with intellectual debate and occasional mischief.

Only too soon, their patriotic ideals of revolution and liberty would be put to the test. Forced to choose between love and duty, young Nathan has to face the harsh personal cost of deeply held beliefs as he leaves to become Washington’s spy.

In this powerful novel of friendship and sacrifice, Samantha Wilcoxson paints a vivid portrait of a young man’s principled passion and dedication to his ideals, turning the legend into flesh and blood.

This is the touching and thought-provoking story of how an ordinary boy grew into an extraordinary man – an American hero.

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Samantha Wilcoxson


Samantha Wilcoxson is an author of emotive biographical fiction and strives to help readers connect with history's unsung heroes. She also writes nonfiction for Pen & Sword History. Samantha loves sharing trips to historic places with her family and spending time by the lake with a glass of wine. Her most recent work is Women of the American Revolution, which explores the lives of 18th century women, and she is currently working on a biography of James Alexander Hamilton.

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Friday, 19 September 2025

The Guest Star by Milan Zivic

 


The Guest Star
By Milan Zivic



Publication Date: 27th December 2023
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 190
Genre: Historical Fiction

Two Alexandrian students, one ancient empire, and a sky full of mystery. Join Hero and Lucia as they chase a strange star across mountains, deserts, and ancient cities. The Guest Star is a thrilling journey packed with danger, heart, fascinating details, and the timeless excitement of discovery.

At the end of the second century, after a mysterious new and large star appears in the night sky of Aegyptus, two students of the Great Library of Alexandria embark on a search for an explanation following a clue inserted into a famous Ptolemy's manuscript of the geographical description of the Roman Empire. Along the way, they meet allies and enemies, love and betrayal, and discover a path that brings them closer to a better understanding of nature and the universe itself.

The Guest Star is also a historical adventure in which ancient Roman and Chinese cultures intertwined at the start of the Silk Road, several years before the first major civil war erupted following Emperor Commodus' assassination. The story is portrayed from a slightly different perspective and goes beyond the generally accepted clichés in the history of the Roman Empire.

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Milan Zivic


In short and hopefully conceptually sufficient, my name is Milan, and I am a web content writer and software developer. I write mostly on my public weblog site, Milan's Public Journal, where I publish reviews, travel stories, scientific and documentary articles, and fictional short and long stories within the framework of historical and science fiction. I have written numerous reviews, often focusing on the scientific or historical background of books. I have also published several science fiction short stories, graphic novels, flash fiction, and short films.

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If It’s the Last Thing I Do by David Fitz-Gerald


If It’s the Last Thing I Do
By David Fitz-Gerald



Publication Date: August 15th 2023
Publisher: Historium Press
Page Length: 329 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

An engaging and creative story filled with tremendous challenges, and of never giving up even in your twilight years.

It's 1975, and Misty Menard unexpectedly inherits her father's business in Lake Placid, New York. It never occurred to her that she could wind up as the CEO of a good old-fashioned manufacturing company.

After years of working for lawyers, Misty knows a few things about the law. Her favorite young attorney is making a name for himself, helping traditionally owned companies become employee owned, using a little-known, newly-passed law. When he offers to help Misty convert Adirondack Dowel into an ESOP, pro bono, Misty jumps at the chance. 

The employees are stunned, the management team becomes hostile, and the Board of Directors is concerned. Misfortune quickly follows the business transformation. A big customer files for bankruptcy. A catastrophic ice jam floods the business. Stagflation freezes the economy. A mysterious shrouded foe plots revenge. Misty's family faces a crisis. The Trustee is convinced something fishy is going on, the appraiser keeps lowering the company's value, and the banker demands additional capital infusions. Misty thought she had left her smoking addiction and alcoholism in the past, but when a worker's finger is severed in an industrial accident, Misty relapses.

Disasters threaten to doom the troubled company. After surviving two world wars and the Great Depression, it breaks Misty's heart to think that she has destroyed her father's company. All she wants is to cement her father's legacy and take care of the people who built the iconic local business. Can a quirky CEO and her loyal band of dedicated employee owners save an heirloom company from foreclosure, repossession, and bankruptcy?

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If It’s the Last Thing I Do

David Fitz-Gerald


David Fitz-Gerald writes historical fiction in his spare time, with the hope of transporting readers to another time and place.

If It's the Last Thing I Do is his 7th novel.

Dave has worked for more than 30 years as an accountant, employee owner, and member of the management team at a "silver" ESOP (employee-owned) company. He has championed the cause in national, non-profit association leadership roles.

Dave’s family roots run deep in the Adirondacks, going back generations. He attended college and worked at a deli in Saranac Lake during the 1980s. He spent two summers as an elf at Santa’s Workshop on Whiteface Mountain in the 1970s and is an Adirondack 46-er, which means he has hiked all of New York’s highest peaks.

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