Best Historical Fiction

  The Hope Keeper centers on the true fact of the infamous Blue Diamond also known as the Hope Diamond and the last but one owner, the mining heiress and socialite, Evalyn McLean. After her death, American jeweler Harry Winston bought it and donated to the Smithsonian Institution. Elisabeth Beaumont of Beaumont Jewelers, after the untimely death of her twin brother, tries to rescue the failing family business by approaching Evalyn McLean to gain her patronage and her influence.    Elisabeth’s father believes in superstition and wants to stay away from any clientele attached to the supposedly cursed blue diamond. Elisabeth questions this rumored curse. There are a lot of indications pointing to this curse, but is it true? Did the death of her brother have anything to do with this curse? Her brother saw the influence of the affluent clientele as the path for Beaumont jewelry to rival Cartier. As Elisabeth approaches the Evalyn, she gets swept into the world of influen...

  Hocus Pocus is based on the renowned, real-life Indian stage magicians performing in the United States in the 1800s. Two men meat at a time when Samuel Thomas dreams of greatness in a far-off land, and Walter Mepham tries to revitalize the New Boston Museum which is on the brink of bankruptcy. They develop a relationship which is the driving force of this novel. Samuel is a man who strongly knows what he wants and he values his freedom but compromises in some aspect to work for Walter. And that also brings the aspect of how much one can bend to stay true to oneself.   In the backstory, we learn about Kumar Samee who grew up in an orphanage in Madras, India, where the magicians of the city were among the most skilled in the world. At the age of ten, he was taken from his grandparents and put into orphanage under a pretext of a better future. He was of light skin and the British officers of the East India Company saw it more fit for him to be at orphanage where he was name...