Historical Fantasy/Alternate History/Time Travel

Akmaral by Judith Lindbergh

Like all Sauromatae, Akmaral is bound for battle from birth, training as a girl in horsemanship, archery, and blades. Her prowess ignites the jealousy of Erzhan, a gifted warrior who envies and desires her in equal measure. When Scythian renegades attack, the two unite to defeat them. Among their captives is Timor, the rebels’ enigmatic leader who refuses to be broken even as he is enslaved. Akmaral is fascinated, but as attraction grows to passion, she overlooks the dangerous alliance forming between the men. Faced with brutal betrayal, Akmaral must find the strength to defend her people and fulfill her destiny.

The Lost Town of Garrison by Eric T. Reynolds

In this Time-travel Historical Fantasy, Professor Katie Robbins is pulled back in time to the 1937 town of Garrison, Kansas, her knowledge vital to save Blue Valley by joining the fight against the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 1930s-1950s, who would flood ten towns to build a lake.

Opposing sides to damming the Valley discover an unusual time travel device, separate from what pulled Katie through time, that they use to try to gain advantage over the other side.

The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson

In the year 2042, Sierra is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future. Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript. The trail leads her to time machines in gentlemen’s clubs in London and in New York, and into the past–and to a time traveler from the future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate.

Through the Veneer of Time by Vera Bell

For fans of Diana Gabaldon and Susanna Kearsley comes a riveting new tale of time travel and romantic suspense: A haunted painter’s past life visions are not the creative inspiration they seemed. They’re a harbinger of her ancient revenge vow, and her FBI husband won’t find the serial killer until she fulfills it. But it may already be too late.

Shirewode by J Tullos Hennig

Home razed by Church edict, loved ones struck down by treachery, Rob is left for dead. Taken by the old druid master into the deeps, he emerges with a new name and purpose: leader of a band of tight-knit outcasts, claiming the ancient forest and wielding the Horned God’s vengeance with silent, deadly arrows. His lover, Gamelyn, has also fled in the wake of Loxley’s destruction. He returns from Crusade with his own new identity and purpose—but no absolution.

No One Will Save Us by Julie L. Brown

In 1609, Princess Chibuike “Chi” of the Queendom of Kana encounters a pale man for the first time. Ten dry seasons later, the once-peaceful queendom is upended when nearby villagers disappear en masse. Chi, now a seasoned warrior in the all-women Kanaian army, vows to find her missing landspeople and bring them home, no matter where they are. She and the women warriors travel across the ocean to Jamestown, Virginia. To free their people, the warriors withstand perils at sea, the dangers of an unknown climate and unfamiliar societies, and the insatiable greed that drives the pale men.

Daughter of the Merciful Deep by Leslye Penelope

It’s 1935 in the Deep South. Twelve years after armed men forced Jane Edwards and her family from their home, a traumatic event that caused Jane to lose her voice, her new home in the all-Black town of Awenasa is faced with the construction of a dam that threatens to bury the community underwater. A mysterious stranger who Jane believes died years ago claims to have the key to the town’s salvation. He introduces her to an underwater realm of gods and ancestral magic and sets her on a path to reclaiming her past.

The Edge of Yesterday by Rita Woods

Greer Coffey and Sebastian Coffey are one of New York’s power couples – until a mysterious illness ends Greer’s career. Forced to move back to their hometown of Detroit, Greer is angry and depressed. She begins to wander the streets and one day stumbles into a vortex which transports her back to the Detroit of 1925, where she meets Dr. Montgomery Gray, a member of Detroit’s Black Aristocracy. Both, disllusioned with their lives, continue to meet, despite the increasing fractures in both their timelines.

In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King

Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can’t remember where she’s from, where she’s been, or how she came to live in Rome. When she receives an offer to accompany celebrated eccentric artist Salvador Dalí to the Sacro Bosco—Italy’s Garden of Monsters—as his muse, she’s strangely compelled to accept. It could be a chance to unlock the truth about her past…

In the Garden of Monsters is a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone, inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1948 visit to the Sacro Bosco Mannerist statue garden. 

Ariadne Unraveled by Zenobia Neil

Ariadne, high priestess of Crete, is sworn to the goddess Artemis. Commanded to sacrifice any husband she takes to her goddess, she refuses to love any man. Until the new god of wine arrives—Dionysus. He came to Crete seeking vengeance against Artemis. He never expected to fall in love.

From the bloody labyrinth and the shadows of Hades to the halls of Olympus, Dionysus must find a way to defy Artemis and unite with Ariadne. Ariadne discovers her own power to choose between the goddess she pledged herself to and the god she loves.