Best Historical Fiction

  Her Hidden Genius brings an intense historical woman whose high standards of ethics and drive to serve for betterment of humankind were instilled in her childhood and carried her to one of the greatest discoveries in scientific world, thus, influencing the humanity. France, 1947. Rosalind Franklin is a new researcher at chemistry institute in Paris. As a woman researcher, she felt discrimination in her native England. That’s why she welcomed this opportunity to be working in Paris where male-minds seem to be much more open toward female scientists. Using a somewhat new scientific approach, the institute hopes to make further discoveries in molecular worlds, which further can serve a purpose for humanity. With her skills and the institute’s methods, they hope to find the ultimate purpose. While enjoying her research, she also enjoys the openness and friendliness with other colleagues, which she lacked in England. She receives an invitation to have her research published in one of the

  Carolina Built reimagines the fascinating life of a real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary. After emancipation in North Carolina, she builds a stunning legacy through her passion and perseverance. North Carolina. In 1873, Josephine buys her first property, when opportunity presents, and because her mother and grandmother never had the right, or the funds, to make such a purchase. She studies the transactions of the biggest landowners in Manhattan. As she works along her husband at barbershop and their family expends, she continues to observe and study those who gain properties. She even attends a few auctions to see her competition in her area. She wants her portfolio to be as robust with a mixture of property types as the ones she studies. The memory of free will being stripped from one is still fresh. She doesn’t want to live at the whim of another white man. Thus, she starts flipping from renting to buying the properties with carefully saved money. Her interests extend to attendin

  Hanging Mary vividly reimagines the life of Mary Surratt who could have changed the course of history, but something stopped her from intervening in the plans leading to the assassination of President Lincoln. 1864, in Washington, Mary Surratt takes boarders to help with the debt occurred by her late husband. The Surratts are Southern sympathizers and you have to be careful with voicing your opinion in regards to secession. Mary’s son, John, becomes acquainted with John Wilkes Booth, a charismatic actor. A concern is being raised by one of the boarders in regards to her son’s deteriorating character. It is being dismissed as pure jealousy as both men used to be close friends and now both Johns, the son and the actor, are very close. There are other concerns being raised such as guns being seen at the house, but that is brushed aside as for protection as John rides regularly into the country. As the backgrounds of the characters are revealed, the storyline builds up interestingly and

  Beautiful Little Fools reimagines the literary classic The Great Gatsby giving voice to three women. 1917, Kentucky. Daisy Fay, eighteen, on a hot summer day in Louisville meets a soldier named Jay Gatsby. That’s not a kind of man her father would approve off, but she finds a Louisville society man dreadfully boring. Jordan, sixteen, is best friends with Daisy, which her father, Judge Baker, doesn’t approve of. But Jordan is not worried as she is not looking for a man nor marriage. Her life is golf. It is her sanctuary and strength. 1917, New York. Catherine follows her sister Myrtle from Illinois to New York. She doesn’t want to be anyone’s wife in a small town. She wants freedom in a big city. A place that offers excitement and opportunity. A place which now is buzzing with soldier, and she meets one of them named Jay Gatsby. 1922, New York. Detective Frank Charles questions all three women. He knows that all three women lied to him. He just can’t put his finger on how and why yet.