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Daughter of Mercia (Dr Anna Petersen Mysteries #1) By Julia Ibbotson Publication Date: June 6th, 2025 Series: Dr Anna Petersen Mysteries Publisher: Archbury Books Pages: 301 ebook / 392 pb Genre: Medieval Dual-Timeline Mystery Romance A brand-new Anglo-Saxon time-slip full of mystery and romance. Echoes of the past resonate across the centuries as Dr Anna Petersen, a medievalist and runologist, is struggling with past trauma and allowing herself to trust again. When archaeologist (and Anna's old adversary) Professor Matt Beacham unearths a 6th century seax with a mysterious runic inscription, and reluctantly approaches Anna for help, a chain of events brings the past firmly back into her present. And why does the burial site also contain two sets of bones, one 6th century and the other modern?  As the past and present intermingle alarmingly, Anna and Matt need to work together to solve the mystery of the seax runes and the seemingly impossible burial, and to discover the truth...

Everything We Thought We Knew By Carolyn Niethammer Publication Date: May 2025 Publisher: Booklocker Pages: 254 Genre: Historical Fiction In 1970, Christie left behind the comforts of L.A. and joined a New Age commune in rural Arizona. With the Vietnam War raging and the counterculture movement in full swing, she hoped to find a community to create a better society. But building a new culture is no easy task, especially when free love, psychedelics, and a war protest gone horribly wrong are thrown into the mix. Important secrets follow them beyond the commune. Put on your tie-dyed shirt and come to Bella Vida as the friends try to change the rules of modern society, then face the repercussions of when middle age sets in. Buy Link: Universal Buy Link Carolyn Niethammer In the 1970s Carolyn Niethammer visited communes throughout the West and settled in an Arizona artists’ community for many years. Those years were important to who she became as she learned to gather wild foods and wrote ...

Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury! By Judith Arnopp Publication Date: June 21st, 2025 Publisher: Judith Arnopp Pages: 342 Genre: Historical Fiction / Biographical Fiction Marguerite: Queen of England From the moment Henry VI's new queen, Marguerite of Anjou, sets foot on English soil she is despised by the English as a foreigner, and blamed for the failures of the hundred years war in France.  Her enemies impede her role as the king’s consort and when Henry sinks into apparent madness, her bid to become regent is rejected. Marguerite must fight, not only for her own position but to maintain Henry’s possession of the crown.  The ambitious Duke, Richard of York, seizes control of the country, thrusting Marguerite aside and inflating the mutual hatred between the houses of York and Lancaster. But the queen refuses to relinquish power and fights determinedly for the rights of her son, Edward of Lancaster. The long and bitter civil conflict, that has come to be known as the War of the ...