Last Updated: April 3, 2026
Mists Over the Channel Islands
by Sarah Sundin
With the German invasion of the British Channel Islands, Dr. Ivy Picot strives to maintain her father’s medical practice and shattered family. Conditions worsen, and Ivy risks her life treating escapees from forced labor camps. Dutch engineer Gerrit van der Zee volunteers to build enemy fortifications, but his plan to aid the Allies could cost Ivy everything she loves.
Huguette
by Cara Black
August, 1945: Pregnant and on the lam, 17-year old Huguette Faure cannot return to her childhood home in Paris. She lands a job assisting a legendary film director. As her role develops from helping him with chores to cooking his books, she sees an opportunity to break free from the ghosts of her past once and for all.
The Turing Protocol
by Nick Croydon
Weaving together past and present, The Turing Protocol honors Alan Turing–a genius who was misunderstood and persecuted by his own time–and takes the reader through pivotal moments in history, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and 9/11.
The Shock of the Light
by Lori Inglis Hall
Theo is recruited by the RAF and disappears into the skies, while his twin Tessa jumps at the chance to join the Special Operations Executive. Two years later, Theo comes home. Tessa does not. Theo, wounded, broken by the loss of his fellows and his sister, is indefatigable, angry, driven, a clandestinely gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal–and he will pay a price for pursuing answers about Tessa’s fate. Decades later, PhD candidate Edie is deep into her research on the Special Operations Executive during the war. When she finds Theo in London, they form an unlikely partnership, and together they finally uncover the truth about Theo’s beloved sister.
Daughter of Genoa
by Kat Devereaux
Anna’s family fled to America years ago, escaping Mussolini’s black shirts when they began rounding up Italian Jews, but Anna had stayed behind. She is determined to help smuggle Jewish citizens, stripped of their status and rights, out of Italy. She begins producing fake identity cards and soon meets another member of the operation: a man known as Mr. X., whom she recognizes instantly as the wealthy aviator Massimo Teglio. And suddenly, without warning-despite the threat of imprisonment, torture, and death-Anna finds herself taking the most dangerous of risk of all: falling in love.