Henry Carter Hull

A fictional account of Vincent Van Gogh's life where he refused to bow to convention and his paintings broke every rule yet brought a new kind of beauty to ravish the human eye.

"For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little-known interlude in the artist's life. The French Riviera, spring 1936: It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made...

"From USA Today bestselling author of Flight of the Sparrow Amy Belding Brown comes an evocative new novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Margaret Maher, whose bond with--and ultimate betrayal of--the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on. Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she...

Sophie, a playful teenager, sent to the Russian court with one destiny, to marry the Empress's nephew, but she has bigger plans and she calls on Varvara to be her trusted servant and spy as Sophie rises to become Catherine the Great.

A fictionalized account of the life of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a late-eighteenth-century German philosophy student, who later becomes the Romantic poet Novalis, focusing on his infatuation with twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn.

Brought together by a mutual fascination with pigeons, Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.

A fictional portrait of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century follows the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, who sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.

"This fascinating, off-kilter novel about a female serial killer is an unexpectedly thrilling read.”--Karl Ove Knausgård, author of My Struggle. Based on the true story of Norwegian maid turned Midwestern farmwife Belle Gunness, the first female serial killer in American history. My Men is a fictional account of one broken woman's descent into inescapable madness. Among thousands of other Norwegian immigrants seeking freedom, Brynhild Størset...

"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...

A fictionalized account of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, in which young Elizabeth copes with the tragic loss of her mother, Anne Boleyn, her father's abandonment, imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the private and public scandals that threaten her life and future.