Best Historical Fiction

  A Crown of Stars is based on the true story of a young actress who survived catastrophic voyage on Lusitania. Early 1900, England. Marguerite Jolviet comes from a privileged family and from an early age enjoys spinning stories and entertaining her family’s friends. At eighteen, she reveals her intention of becoming an actress. Her younger sister, Inez, is not happy about Marguerite leaving the house as both sisters have a very close bond. But Inez has a gift of her own. She is a talented violinist. This allows her to follow her sister as they both move to London. They quickly become celebrated in London, where Marguerite takes the stage name of Rita. Their careers take them in different geographical directions. Inez remains in Europe and Rita moves to Broadway in NYC. Despite the distance, the sisterly bond remains strong with love and support for each other. The war in Europe makes the brother of Rita and Inez enlist, and that makes Rita rush to Europe on the fastest ste...

  The Woman and Her Stars is based on the true story of Caroline Herschel, an aw-inspiring woman who lived during the Georgian era, when women were seen as inferior to men and not allowed to be independent thinkers, but she rose above those restrictions with her curious mind making her one of the leading astronomers of her time. England, Bath, 1782. When Caroline is thirty-two, her brother is appointed King’s Astronomer which means he has to move close to court, and that means she has to move with him. When Caroline was twenty-two, she was fetched by William from Hanover (Germany) to become a useful singer for his concerts. The Herschels were a musical family. Her brother, William, became the esteemed musical director of Bath’s publish concerts. Singing gave her life she’d never imagined. Bath became her home and she didn’t want to leave it, but she was in England only because William made it possible for her. However, William had another passion; it was for celestial objects...