Cheryls Favorite Historical Fiction

Discover Cheryl's top picks in historical fiction! Explore her favorite books that bring the past to life with captivating stories and rich, immersive settings.

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Silent Lies

by M. L. Malcolm

Inspired by true stories from the author's family, Silent Lies tells the story of Leo Hoffman, a dashing young Hungarian with a gift for languages …
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Deceptive Intentions

by M. L. Malcolm

Leo Hoffman is a man of many contradictions. He's a Hungarian national traveling on a French passport, a wealthy businessman with no visible means of …
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Mistress of the Sun

by Sandra Gulland

An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to …
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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

by Sandra Gulland

In the second novel in the acclaimed Josephine B. Trilogy, Sandra Gulland offers a sweeping yet intimate portrayal of the political and personal struggles of …
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Joséphine B.

by Sandra Gulland

'You will be unhappily wed. You will be widowed. You will be Queen.' To fourteen-year-old Rose, eldest daughter of a poor plantation landlord, the fortune …
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The Last Great Dance on Earth

by Sandra Gulland

The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the …
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The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to …
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Beneath a Marble Sky

by John Shors

Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the reigning emperor, consumed with grief over the tragic death of his beloved wife, commissions the building of the …
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Moloka'i

by Alan Brennert

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving …
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