{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Eva Seyler","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.evaseyler.com","author_name":"Eva Seyler","author_url":"https:\/\/www.evaseyler.com\/index.php\/author\/aakq8ixsak\/","title":"Historical Fiction Debuts in 2019 : Eva Seyler","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"g7WM7XX6y9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evaseyler.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/historical-fiction-debuts-in-2019\/\">Historical Fiction Debuts in 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evaseyler.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/historical-fiction-debuts-in-2019\/embed\/#?secret=g7WM7XX6y9\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Historical Fiction Debuts in 2019&#8221; &#8212; Eva Seyler\" data-secret=\"g7WM7XX6y9\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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Without further ado, here&#8217;s a list! And if you know of any other debut authors releasing historical fiction in 2019, comment and let us know! *To order\/preorder, click on the title. *For more information about the authors, click on their names to go to their websites. Note: At the time of posting this, we don&#8217;t have all the covers available, but I&#8217;ll be updating it as soon as I have them! *** The Rigel Affair by L M Hedrick 327 pages \/ released 18 December 2018 Whenever Charlie caught a moment, he snuck aside his clothes, and dropped them behind the bushes down by the railings of the old bridge below the farmhouse in Falkner, Mississippi. Abandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver. Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zealand family. But when her brother\u2019s friend persuades her to take a ride, it all goes horribly wrong. Desperate, she flees her family\u2019s stifling expectations for a new life in Auckland. After the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, Charlie sets sail for Auckland aboard the USS Rigel. And there she is, the girl of his dreams. Mattie is everything that Roxy isn\u2019t\u2014 sophisticated, tender, and patient. But the war intervenes\u2026 Rigel embarks for the Pacific war zones. Charlie\u2019s letters are sporadic. Mattie is tormented by doubts; did he truly love her, or was it only a dream? The Rigel Affair produces a rip-roaring wartime romance and chilling danger unknown to most. *** The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer 384 pages \/ released 5 February 2019 Hot July. The downs have greened up from the past week\u2019s rain and rise into the sky like mossy breasts. She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer,\u00a0The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. &#8220;I&#8217;d rather take a photograph than be one,&#8221; she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. But Man Ray turns out to be an egotistical, charismatic force, and as they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee&#8217;s life forever. Lee&#8217;s journey takes us from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from discovering radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it&#8217;s possible to reconcile romantic desire with artistic ambition-and what she will have to sacrifice to do so. Told in interweaving timelines, this sensuous, richly detailed novel brings Lee Miller-a brilliant and pioneering artist-out of the shadows of a man&#8217;s legacy and into the light. *** Appetites and Vices by Felicia Grossman Released 18 February 2019 Throw one chair when you\u2019re eleven and you\u2019re a pariah for life. He\u2019s her ticket into high society\u2026 Banking heiress Ursula Nunes has lived her life on the fringes of Philadelphia\u2019s upper class. Her Jewish heritage means she\u2019s never quite been welcomed by society\u2019s elite\u2026and her quick temper has never helped, either. A faux engagement to the scion of the mid-Atlantic\u2019s most storied family might work to repair her rumpled reputation and gain her entr\u00e9e to the life she thinks she wants\u2026if she can ignore the way her \u201cbetrothed\u201d makes her feel warm all over and stay focused on her goal. She\u2019s his ticket out\u2026 Former libertine John Thaddeus \u201cJay\u201d Truitt is hardly the man to teach innocent women about propriety. Luckily, high society has little to do with being proper and everything to do with identifying your foe\u2019s temptation\u2014an art form Jay mastered long ago. A broken engagement will give him the perfect excuse to run off to Europe and a life of indulgence. But when the game turns too personal, all bets are off\u2026 *** The Parting Glass by Gina Marie Guadagnino 320 pages \/ released 5 March 2019 It was Thursday again, and once more I was courting misery with both arms open wide. Devoted maid Mary Ballard\u2019s world is built on secrets, and it\u2019s about to be ripped apart at the seams, in this lush and evocative debut set in 19th century New York, perfect for fans of Sarah Waters\u2019s Fingersmith and Emma Donoghue\u2019s Slammerkin. By day, Mary Ballard is lady\u2019s maid to Charlotte Walden, wealthy and accomplished belle of New York City high society. Mary loves Charlotte with an obsessive passion that goes beyond a servant\u2019s devotion, but Charlotte would never trust Mary again if she knew the truth about her devoted servant\u2019s past. Because Mary\u2019s fate is linked to that of her mistress, one of the most sought-after debutantes in New York, Mary\u2019s future seems secure\u2014if she can keep her own secrets\u2026 But on her nights off, Mary sheds her persona as prim and proper lady\u2019s maid to reveal her true self\u2014Irish exile Maire O\u2019Farren\u2014and finds release from her frustration in New York\u2019s gritty underworld\u2014in the arms of a prostitute and as drinking companion to a decidedly motley crew consisting of a barkeeper and members of a dangerous secret society. Meanwhile, Charlotte has a secret of her own\u2014she\u2019s having an affair with a stable groom, unaware that her lover is actually Mary\u2019s own brother. When the truth of both women\u2019s double lives begins to unravel, Mary is left to face the consequences. Forced to choose between loyalty to her brother and loyalty to Charlotte, between society\u2019s respect and true freedom, Mary finally learns that her fate lies in her hands alone. A captivating historical fiction of 19th century upstairs\/downstairs New York City, The Parting Glass examines sexuality, race, and social class in ways that feel startlingly familiar and timely. A perfectly paced, romantically charged story of overlapping love triangles that builds to a white-knuckle climax, this is an irresistible debut that\u2019s impossible to put down. *** The War in Our Hearts by Eva Seyler 324 pages \/ Releases 24 March 2019 Estelle Graham hesitated on the dock at Calais, scanning the sea of faces as humanity flowed around her on either side of the gangway. She was not very tall, and even standing on her toes did not afford her the height required to find her husband\u2019s face in this crush of people. France, 1916: Estelle Graham faces a nightmare. Expecting to meet her beloved husband and bring their newly adopted daughter home to Scotland, she instead finds him gravely injured and unconscious in a casualty station. As she fights for his care, she takes solace in his journals and letters. In a farmhouse in Somme, Captain Jamie Graham is forever changed when he meets young Aveline Perrault. Both of them broken and walled off from the cruel and cold world around them\u2014made even crueler and colder by the Great War\u2014the pair form an unlikely bond. She finds in him the father she never had, and with her love, he faces the pain from his own childhood. Discover the depth of love and faith in the face of brutality and neglect as they learn to live while surviving World War I. *** Naamah by Sarah Blake 304 pages \/ Releases 9 April 2019 Naamah is watching the horizon, hoping something will interrupt it and distract her, pull her eye to it, a moment of focus. She is humbled by the flood, but how long can someone reasonably be asked to experience humility? A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth. With the coming of the Great Flood&#8211;the mother of all disasters&#8211;only one family was spared, drifting on an endless sea, waiting for the waters to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine vision to launch their escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, acclaimed writer Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures, silently mourning the lover she left behind. Here is the woman escaping into the unreceded waters, where a seductive angel tempts her to join a strange and haunted world. Here is the woman tormented by dreams and questions of her own&#8211;questions of service and self-determination, of history and memory, of the kindness or cruelty of fate. In fresh and modern language, Blake revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth, and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story.\u00a0Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience. *** The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr 320 pages \/ Releases 9 April 2019 Robert Highstead\u2019s workday ended with a letter thrust inside his pocket. Before that, it was spent in a second-story parlor in Kensington, squinting into a camera at a corpse. A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale. All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead of a heart attack in his bath one morning, his cousin Robert Highstead, a historian turned post-mortem photographer, is charged with a simple task: transport Hugh\u2019s remains for burial in a chapel. This chapel, a stained glass folly set on the moors of Shropshire, was built by de Bonne sixteen years earlier to house the remains of his beloved wife and muse, Ada. Since then, the chapel has been locked and abandoned, a pilgrimage site for the rabid fans of de Bonne\u2019s last book, The Lost History of Dreams. However, Ada\u2019s grief-stricken niece refuses to open the glass chapel for Robert unless he agrees to her bargain: before he can lay Hugh to rest, Robert must record Isabelle\u2019s story of Ada and Hugh\u2019s ill-fated marriage over the course of five nights. As the mystery of Ada and Hugh\u2019s relationship unfolds, so does the secret behind Robert\u2019s own marriage\u2014including that of his fragile wife, Sida, who has not been the same since the tragic accident three years ago, and the origins of his own morbid profession that has him seeing things he shouldn\u2019t\u2014things from beyond the grave. Kris Waldherr effortlessly spins a sweeping and atmospheric gothic mystery about love and loss that blurs the line between the past and the present, truth and fiction, and ultimately, life and death. *** The Dream Peddler by Martine Fournier Watson 336 pages \/ Releases 9 April 2019 The light of the gold harvest moon woke Benjamin Dawson from his dream. A page-turning debut novel about a traveling salesman who arrives to sell dreams to a town rocked by a child\u2019s disappearance\u2014both a thoughtful mediation on grief and a magical exploration of our innermost desires The dream peddler came to town at the white end of winter, before the thaw\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. Traveling salesmen like Robert Owens have passed through Evie Dawson\u2019s town before, but none of them offered anything like what he has to sell: dreams, made to order, with satisfaction guaranteed. Soon after he arrives, the community is shocked by the disappearance of Evie\u2019s young son....","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/evaseyler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-02-at-21.53.09-200x300.png"}