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Historical Fiction
Title: California Gold: Franklin (Book 3)
Author: Dorothy J. Varney
Publisher: Jorlan Publishing
Release Date: December 11, 2010
ISBN: 978-1933830100
Size: 210 pages, 5×8, softcover
Genre: Historical
Series: California Gold: Benjamin (bk 1), California Gold: Ben (bk 2)
A description for this book could not be found on Amazon, nor on the publisher’s website, nor from extensive Googling on my part.
Title: Wild Irish Rose
Author: Deborah L. Weikel
Publisher: Walnut Springs
Release Date: June 3, 2010 (per Amazon); November?
ISBN: 978-1935217664
Size: 292 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover
Genre: Historical Romance
Rosaleen O’Shay must marry a perfect stranger to help her family. Can she do it?
Rosaleen glanced down the street, took her mother’s arm, and started to cross. Then she heard her mother scream just as a horse reared in front of them. Stumbling back, she tripped over her mother’s foot and landed in the dirt.
”Ye filthy brute!” Rosaleen shouted. ”What are ye doin’, tryin’ to kill me?”
”What in tarnation were you doing walking down the middle of the street? Don’t you have any sense in that pretty little head of yours?” Rosaleen looked up at the dirty soldier grinning down at her from his horse. She rose to her feet with as much dignity as possible. . . .
”How dare ye insinuate I’m in the wrong! Yer nothin’ but a trail-dusty blackguard with the manners of a pig. . . . If ye cannot brin’ yerself to help a lady in distress, at least ye could apologize for yer blunder.”
”I don’t see a lady in distress,” the soldier replied, casting Rosaleen a lopsided grin. He tipped his hat and winked at her, then urged his horse on down the street. . . .
Clearly, this soldier was accustomed to flirting with anyone who wore a skirt. Yet Rosaleen had to admit he had the most gorgeous blue eyes she’d ever seen. Even the sound of his voice caused her pulse to race.
It is May 1865. When Rosaleen O’Shay and her mother lose their factory jobs, and then her father and brother are injured in a coal-mine cave-in, the family is in serious trouble. Rosaleen worries they will never save enough money to fulfill their dream to leave Pittsburgh and buy a farm in California. Hoping to give her a better life, Rosaleen’s father secretly arranges to marry her off to Blaise Cameron, a young man on his way to his parents’ ranch near Stockton, California. In a twist of fate, Blaise turns out to be the soldier from the street — the one Rosaleen considers a blackard.
To make matters worse, Blaise has a plan‹and dubious motives for taking a wife — so Rosaleen will have to drive a hard bargain of her own. Will Blaise tame the fiery redhead and make her truly his? Or will he annul the marriage as promised when he has achieved his objectives? And will Rosaleen realize that unusual beginnings can lead to happily ever after?
Title: The Star Prophecy
Author: Joan Sowards
Publisher: Walnut Springs
Release Date: November 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1935217879
Size: 300 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical
Title: The Book of Malchus
Author: Neil K. Newell with William J. Hamblin
Publisher:
Release Date: N2010
ISBN:
Size: 416 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical
A book for all who believe and especially for those who want to believe.
It is A.D. 410 and Rome, the symbol of order and civilization, has fallen — sacked by and army of barbarians. Renowned pagan philosopher Lucius Crescentius struggles to make sense of it. Why had the gods allowed it? Could it be they are merely stone after all? Has everything he has known all his life — everything he has studies, believed, and worked for — been a lie?
But as Lucius struggles to understand his world, he makes a startling discovery: a hidden and mysterious record written by a long-dead ancestor — a merchant explorer by the name of Malchus. Malchus’ tale reveals a story of high adventure on the sea, of unexpected romance, and of barbarian ways in a strange, faraway land. He also tells of an even stranger story about a chance encounter with a man from Galilee that is destined to change his life forever.
In Rome, chants of death and destruction fill the streets. How can Lucius reconcile yesterday’s Rome with the chaos of today? As Lucius struggles to make sense of a world turned upside down, he turns to the strange and exciting Book of Malchus, hoping that within those pages, he might discover a new path and new meaning for his life.
Title: Oh, Say Can You See (Free Men & Dreamers, vol 4)
Author: L.C. Lewis
Publisher:
Release Date: October, 2010
ISBN:
Size:
Genre: Historical
Series: Dark Sky at Dawn (v1), Twilight’s Last Gleaming (v2), Dawn’s Early Light (v3)
Although the British raids have left Washington a devastated, blackened city, the battered Constitution has held and the presidency has survived!
But the struggling government has no home. The British saw to that. Gone is the Capitol, her magnificent library, and the chambers of the Congress and the Supreme Court. Gone also is the President’s House, and every relic and document not secreted out of the city.
Next on the list of British prizes—the rebellious port city of Baltimore! A victory here would assure the Americans’ capitulation, but a loss would dilute the importance of the destruction of Washington.
But has the raid on Washington stiffened the backs of the Americans? This is the question gnawing at the leaders of both armies as the toll of the war mounts on both sides.
Title: The Water Is Wide (Mima Journals, book 1)
Author: Marianne Monson
Publisher: Deseret Book
Release Date: October 15, 2010
ISBN:
Size: 224 pages, 5×7.5, softcover
Genre: YA Historical
The Water Is Wide begins the beautifully written story of fourteen-year-old Jemima “Mima” Hough.
After her mother meets a pair of Latter-day Saint missionaries in the small English town of Wooden Box in 1845, Mima hopes that her life won’t change that much. Then her mother decides to emigrate to America.
Mima faces some tough decisions. Should she stay in Liverpool with her brother, or face the journey with her mother?
Mima’s story is one of courage and self-discovery, of heartache and love.
Book 1 of a three-book series, The Water Is Wide begins the epic adventure of a girl who experiences the life of a pioneer as an outsider.
Title: Trespass
Author: Sandra Grey
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: October 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1608610525
Size: 384 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical Romance
Lieutenant Viktor Rostov warned them not to cross him. If Hans Brenner had listened, Natalie Allred might not have disappeared — and Hans might not be lying mortally wounded, his life forfeit to the Soviet MGB. All Hans wanted was to marry his sweetheart in America. But that was before an agreement between Hans and U.S. intelligence goes horribly wrong.
Lieutenant Rostov has no choice; with his daughter, Lucya, sentenced to a Siberian death camp in a governmental power play, he must deliver Hans or risk losing Lucya forever. To preserve Lucya’s life, Hans must help the Soviets build a bomb, and Natalie must swear allegiance to the motherland and to Rostov himself. Escape seems impossible within the iron grip of the secret police. And when the MGB begins to suspect betrayal, Hans and Natalie’s survival will hinge on two people. One must trespass against the laws of a nation that gave him a second chance, and the other must make a heart-wrenching choice: trespass against his country or against his heart.
Title: California Gold: Ben (Book 2)
Author: Dorothy J. Varney
Publisher: Jorlan Publishing
Release Date: October 2, 2010
ISBN: 978-1933830094
Size: 212 pages, 5×8, softcover
Genre: Historical
Series: California Gold: Benjamin
Ben continues the saga of the Varney family when he sails from California to the South Paicific as a youth of eighteen to act as agent for a San Francisco trading company. His father, Benjamin, gives him the painting, California Gold, to remind him of home.The Marquesas Islands hold him captive with their haunting beauty and mystery, despite the urgings of his family to return to California. He falls in love with the exotic Maruata, with whom he is forbidden marriage by their opposing religions. They compose their own rites and their union is blessed with several children. Ben prospers as a trader throughout the South Pacific. His store in Atuona, Marquesas, satisfies the needs and appetites of his friend and neighbor, the painter, Paul Gauguin. As Ben’s father struggled between his loyalty to home in New England and his fascination for California, so Ben is torn between his love of home and the allure of the islands. The California Gold painting aquires new value and significance.
Title: Life and Death at Hoover Dam
Author: Jerry Borrowman
Publisher: Black Canyon Press
Release Date: September, 2010
ISBN: 978-0984383603
Size: 256 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical
It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that
towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam and that will create the largest manmade lake in the world.
Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men, and the sacrifices they endured from choking on gasoline fumes in five-story tunnels that exceeded 120 degrees to dangling by slender cables from the thousand foot walls of the canyon to blast the loose rock and gravel into oblivion. And together they’ll fight the river with all their might, and perhaps their lives, as flash floods threaten to destroy all they have worked to accomplish.
Meet the Conroy brothers; David an engineer who works directly with Frank Crowe, Chief Engineer and the world’s foremost builder of dams, and Pete, his older brother who is as wild as the Colorado River itself. Pete is a crew foreman, first working on the scraping and blasting of the sheer cliff walls into which the dam must be anchored, and then in the massive forms where seven million tons of concrete will settle—some say to last a thousand years. Sean O’Donnell, a scrappy Irishman who worked on the Empire State Building in New York City whose family desperately wants him to come home. And Tony Capelli, the worker who will pay the greatest price of all—a farmer from southern California whose land will become verdant and productive once the flow of Colorado River water is assured. But prejudice is rampant against those of foreign birth, even though American citizens, and Tony will face mortal danger as he struggles to stay on the job and feed his family. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that will make possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives—the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam.
Title: The Legend of Shannonderry
Author: Carol Warburton
Publisher:
Release Date: September, 2010
ISBN:
Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical Romance
Gwyneth Beddows, a young woman of nineteenth-century England, has often felt lonely and unloved by her father, who believes the rumors that his pretty daughter might not actually be his child. The one place the young woman can find consolation is in the saddle of her spirited stallion. The magnificent horse shows promise as a racehorse and has drawn the attention of Irish horse master Cormac D’Arcy, who is visiting England on business. The handsome young man also brings a lifechanging message from Gwyneth’s grandmother—a frail yet feisty Irish woman Gwyneth has never met.
Events orchestrated by her father force Gwyneth to flee England, and with the help of D’Arcy, she arrives at Shannonderry, her maternal family’s ancestral home, where Gwyneth learns of a legend that will have a profound impact on her life and the lives of those around her.
Touched by the promise of destiny, Gwyneth seeks to save the family estate from certain ruin. But with fierce rivals on the scene and her embittered father in the periphery, Gwyneth faces grave danger that may place her far beyond the reach of D’Arcy’s rescuing hand—and she must call on the strength of her heart if the historic legend of Shannonderry will ever be fulfilled.
Title: When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Author: Eric G. Swedin
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Release Date: August 31, 2010
ISBN: 978-1597975179
Size: 316 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical/Speculative
In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon find the Soviet missile sites, thus sparking the famous missile crisis. For thirteen terrifying days, the world watched nervously as the two superpowers moved toward escalation, holding the world’s fate in their hands. Finally, Nikita Khrushchev blinked. He agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba in return for John F. Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island.
But what if it had not turned out this way? What if the U-2 flight had been delayed? If the confrontation had set off a nuclear war, what would have happened to the United States and Soviet Union in 1962? What kind of account would a historian have written in a world scarred by nuclear war?
Title: Finding Rose
Author: Stephanie Humphreys
Publisher: Walnut Springs Press
Release Date: August 2010
ISBN: 971935217770
Size: 292 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical Romance
On his deathbed, Rose Sterling’s father asks her to consider Miles Crandall as a suitor. Then Rose is sent to live with an uncle in Spring Creek, Montana, far from her carefree life with her family in Utah. Miles is returning to his hometown of Spring Creek to set up a medical practice, so Rose is certain her being sent there is a setup. Yet Miles doesn’t seem interested in her, and after Rose falls ill in Montana, he seems content to act as her physician and friend. When Rose captures the attention of Mile’s younger, flamboyant brother as well as the town sheriff, Miles retreats even further from any attempt at courtship. How can Rose honor her father’s last wish if Miles doesn’t even try to court her? Will she have the courage to put her heart on the line and fight for the one she really loves?
Title: Reluctant Soldier, Reluctant Saint
Author: Tom Roulstone
Publisher: Bonneville/CFI
Release Date: August 11, 2010
ISBN: 978-1599554129
Size: 224, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Historical
With dreams of striking it rich in the American gold rush, James McCorkle never expected to be robbed on his first day in America. But when some thugs steal literally everything he owns, this young Irishman desperately joins the United States Army, only to discover that his troop is headed to the Utah Territory to quell a suspected Mormon rebellion. Conflicted about fighting a people he has never met, James must march to Utah to fulfill his duty. But along the way, he discovers something even more valuable than gold.
Reluctant Soldier, Reluctant Saint is a surprising coming-of-age tale that reminds you that God’s love can be found anywhere, even in desperate situations.
Title: Journey of Honor
Author: Jaclyn M. Hawkes
Publisher: Granite
Release Date: August, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-59936-059-1
Size: 214 pages, 6×9, paperback
Genre: Historical Romance
Disowned, she came to America anyway. Attacked and left pregnant by a vicious mob, she still pressed on. Finally, in spite of being accused of theft by the vilest of her attackers, Giselle tries to remain as upbeat and uncomplaining as a prairie wildflower as she travels on to Zion.
Thoroughly disillusioned with the ugliness and cruelty of slavery in the South, Trace Grayson leaves his young medical career to go west, hoping to leave bigotry and hatred behind. He begins taking goods by teamster train to sell in the territories. However, this fourth time across, in July of 1848, he s stuck in St. Joseph, Missouri, waiting for enough wagons to join the train so that they can leave.
Knowing that if they don t start west soon, they ll be caught by snow in the mountains, Trace is thrilled when the final wagon signs on. Then, when the beautiful, young Dutch girl traveling with the last wagon is falsely accused of stealing and is detained, the whole trip is jeopardized. Thrown together by circumstance, Trace and Giselle team up to begin to figure out just how to make this epic journey across a continent a success.
With a deep sense of honor and an equally strong sense of humor, together they learn to deal with everything except the one trial that neither of them can overcome.
Title: California Gold: Benjamin (Book 1)
Author: Dorothy J. Varney
Publisher: Jorlan Publishing
Release Date: July 17, 2010
ISBN: 978-1933830087
Size: 238 pages, 5×8, softcover
Genre: Historical
Excited by the fast-moving pace of the California Gold Rush, Benjamin forsakes his New England roots for a role in the future of the new state. He is motivated by three driving forces: his love for Clarinda, a married woman; his intolerance of racial injustice; and his service in the state’s legislature. His friendships with both an Indian and an Indian hunter cause a feud that threatens his political career. “California Gold” refers to the state during an extraordinary time in its history as well as to a painting of the golden hills of California. This painting plays an intriguing part in linking the three generations of Benjamin Franklin Varneys in Books II and III. The story is loosely based on an actual family in California history.
Title: A Scent of Lavender
Author: Margaret W. Miller
Publisher: Granite
Release Date: July 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1599360577
Size: 330 pages, 6×9, Paperback
Genre: Historical
The year is 1879,and mining camps are springing up all over Utah. At the age of 18, Lillian Lewis finds herself alone after the tragic death of her entire family. When she obtains work in a Bullion Canyon boardinghouse in Marysvale, Utah a ruffian miner relentlessly pursues her. Seeking escape from his unwanted attentions, she travels with an old freighter to the mining town of Frisco, Utah where she hopes to be hired as a teacher.
The students she has been hired to teach are incorrigible. Numerous teachers have run screaming from the schoolhouse after only a few days with them, but Lillian doesn’t know the meaning of the word “Quit!”
And in the dark of night, a mysterious lady in black, walks Frisco’s streets, and the gentle scent of lavender swirls through the air. What is their origin, and what secrets do they have to tell?
Title: The Silence of God
Author: Gale Sears
Publisher: Deseret Book
Release Date: June 2010
ISBN:
Size: 400 pages, 6×9, hardcover
Genre: Historical
At the turn of the twentieth century, St. Petersburg offers the best of Imperial Russia. The vast country is filled with grand cathedrals, a faithful populace, and many people who love and revere Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family. But as Russia becomes further entrenched in the Great War, a revolution begins brewing within her own borders.
For the wealthy Lindlof family, the only Latter-day Saints living in St. Petersburg at the time, the glitz and glamour of the Silver Age soon dissolves into mass rebellion, dividing their family and testing their faith. Life for Agnes Lindlof will never be the same—changed forever by an ideology that forces equality and demands the silence of God.
Agnes’s lifelong friend, Natasha Ivanovna Gavrilova, is the daughter of a professor and a firm supporter of Bolshevik ideals; she doesn’t believe in God at all. Yet, when the waves of the revolution wash over her family and her friends, Natasha must examine her own heart and decide for herself what to believe and what voice to listen to.
Based on an amazing true story of the only Latter-day Saint family living in St. Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution, The Silence of God is a rare glimpse into a fascinating period of history and a powerful, extraordinary novel of devotion and loyalty.
Title: The Enchanted Tunnel #2: Escape from Egypt
Author: Marianne Monson
Publisher: Deseret Book
Release Date: June, 2010
ISBN:
Size: 96 pages, 5×7.5, softcover
Genre: Middle Grade Historical
This is a chapter book. It is not eligible for a Whitney Award.
The adventure continues in Book 2: Escape from Egypt.
This time Aria and Nathan are prepared – or so they think. The twins dress up as pioneers and crawl under the stage, only to find themselves in ancient Egypt instead!
It is the day before the Exodus. The children spend the night with an Israelite family and share in the Passover with them, but the next morning, as the city empties, they have a hard choice to make.
Do they risk their lives to reunite an Israelite boy with his family, or do they find the tunnel and go home?
The clock is ticking in this exciting second installment of The Enchanted Tunnel series!
Title: The Enchanted Tunnel #1: Pioneer Puzzle
Author: Marianne Monson
Publisher: Deseret Book
Release Date: June, 2010
ISBN:
Size: 96 pages, 5×7.5, softcover
Genre: Middle Grade Historical
This is a chapter book. It is not eligible for a Whitney Award.
Nathan and Aria have a secret …
Things start to get strange when one Sunday after church a game of tag takes the twins under the stage where the chairs are usually kept.
Crawling through the dark space, they quickly realize they are no longer in the cultural hall. In fact, they’re not even in their own time! Nathan and Aria find themselves with a group of pioneers about to head into the Salt Lake Valley.
What will the children learn from the pioneers? How will the twins get back home?
Title: The Widower’s Wife
Author: Prudence Bice
Publisher: Cedar Fort
Release Date: June 8, 2010
ISBN: 978-1599554112
Size: 200 pages, 6×9, paperback
Genre: Historical, Romance
When Jillian Grey answers Dalton McCullough s newspaper advertisement requesting a mail-order bride to take care of his three young children, they both agree that their marriage is one of convenience and nothing more. But when they realize their growing attraction for each other, they must decide if giving in to their feelings is worth the risk of upsetting their new family s delicate balance.
Title: Alma the Younger
Author: H.B. Moore
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: June 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-1608610204
Size: 304 pages, 6×9, paperback
Genre: Historical
As night falls, a scarlet-robed man emerges from the temple and a hush falls over the waiting crowd. Studying the hooded figure with enmity, Alma recognizes that this is the man who incites rebellion among the people of Zarahemla. This is the man who dares preach from the very place where King Benjamin uttered his final blessings upon the people of the church. Defiling the tower with his very presence, the man who embodies evil raises a hand to silence the drums, then calls to his followers through the eerie quiet. And that’s when Alma realizes the terrible truth: this man is his son.
Alma the Younger, son of the aging high priest, once was taught by the wisdom of prophets. Now the young man is a thief ensnared by the wiles of strong drink and harlots; a bitter dissenter determined to overthrow the church, to lead the people into new freedoms. He has gathered a strong army to create a revolution, which only begins with the desecration of the temple and will escalate to calamity once he captures King Mosiah s daughter. But en route to his malicious mission with his royal henchmen, Alma is halted by an unexpected opponent: an angel of the Lord, a messenger of the very God he has sought to defame. And what unfolds is a story of miraculous redemption, a story building on the poignant Book of Mormon account to show how even the vilest of sinners can be transformed by the Savior’s amazing grace.
Title: Escape to Zion
Author: Jean Holbrook Mathews
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: May 2010
ISBN: 978-1598119567
Size: 304 pages, 6×9, paperback
Genre: Historical
Maria stumbles across the rain-soaked forest floor, injured and breathless but determined to flee the baying hounds behind her. Reaching the riverbank, she plunges into the frigid water with only a fallen log for support. She can’t swim, but she has no choice—not with Lafayette Breaux on her tail. As the fastest of the hounds spots Maria, Breaux’s furious voice rises above their deafening din: “Find her! FIND HER!”
Sold as an indentured servant after her parents perished en route from Germany to America, Maria dutifully completes her ten years of service. But instead of granting her freedom at age eighteen, her master, Breaux, insists she is a metif (white) slave. Then he forces his will upon her, hoping to bind Maria to him for good. Now Maria is running for her life, hoping to cut all ties to her wicked overseer. Rescued from drowning by Hank Shroeder, she makes a new start in Mississippi as a freed woman and joins the Latter-day Saints—where she and Hank grow closer as they begin to lean on each other for support. But the malicious Breaux will stop at nothing to reclaim her as his own, and relentlessly tracks Maria—even as she treks West with her fellow Saints. Will she be able to escape her tormentor and find peace when she reaches her promised land?
Title: A Banner Is Unfurled: Abide With Me (vol. 4)
Author: Marci Gallacher and Kerri Robinson
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: April, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-59811-883-4
Size: 288 pages, hardcover
Genre: Historical
Series: A Banner Is Unfurled (vol. 1); Be Still My Soul (vol. 2); Glory From On High (vol. 3)
Kirtland, 1838. Among the Saints who remain, Julia Johnson and her children endure the bitter winter in poverty, struggling amidst illness and persecution to prepare to join the leaders of the Church in Far West. Meanwhile, Almon rises as an influential leader among the Canadian Saints and seeks land for them to settle in Missouri. Spring marks the joyful reunion of Delcena and her husband, Lyman, who has been in hiding. But separation looms large as the couple departs for Far West and Ezekiel realizes with dread that most of his family will soon follow.
Indeed, as summer approaches and the Kirtland Poor Camp begins its historic exodus, Ezekiel is left behind with only Almera to comfort him – but she wants nothing more than to join her family in their journey out of Ohio, away from her harsh-tempered, controlling husband. Typhoid fever strikes the traveling camp, and those already gathered in Missouri are shaken as mobs become more aggressive and overzealous Danites step in to force order. By the time Almon’s company of Canadian saints arrives in Far West, the city is nearly under siege, and the lives of many innocent Saints are threatened — including that of the Prophet himself.
Title: Heroes of the Fallen
Author: David J. West
Publisher: WiDo Publishing
Release Date: April 14, 2010
ISBN: 978-0979607035
Size: 306 pages
Genre: Historical
Heroes of the Fallen is set after a golden age of peace, that lasted almost three hundred years. War is now coming to Zarahemla. Men beat their plowshares into swords or call vainly to pagan gods for answers, all the while forgetting that which could deliver them.
Stand alongside daring heroes with swords bared against sinister villains, never knowing which will fall—Captain Amaron and his Ten Scouts, Zelph the White Lamanite, or Anathoth the Ishmaelite General, agonizingly loyal to the despised King of Tullan—all must face the chillingly evil Gadianton Master Akish-Antum and his numerous followers.
Witness the plans of mighty kings and lowly thieves. See the dreams of Bethia, a prophet’s daughter, as she runs away from home seeking independence, only to find confusion and wickedness in a land of war.
Heroes of the Fallen is filled with tragedy and triumph. It echoes universal themes of mankind: fear and courage, faith versus doubt, hunger for power and love, and sacrifice for the greater good. Intensely researched for reality and fantastically dreamt up for imagination, Heroes of the Fallen is a literary work of art, presenting revolutionary viewpoints in a cross-genre’s ancient American landscape.