Launching COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope – Publication Day

Published today, Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope brings together award-winning authors who invite readers into fifteen worlds separated by centuries yet connected by a timeless human experience: courage.

 Available in e-book & paperback from Amazon or order from any good bookstore.

From Roman frontiers and Saxon battlefields to Vlad Dracula’s era, from medieval Transylvania to Renaissance Paris, wartime Venice, and the present day, Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope brings together history-loving authors in a remarkable anthology celebrating the many faces of courage.

Spanning sixteen centuries and countless human struggles, these 15 stories explore resilience, sacrifice, love, loss, mystery, and hope.

Across these pages, strangers become familiar, distant eras feel immediate, and the past reveals itself through the hopes, doubts, sacrifices, and resilience of those who lived it.

This unique collection offers something for every lover of historical fiction:

 Alison Morton: The Sentry – Noricum AD 395

Derek Birks: The Saxon – Southern Britain AD 471

Marian L Thorpe: The Phoenix – a fictional country circa AD 900

Judith Arnopp: Siflede – London 1066

Annie Whitehead: Daisy Chain – England 1141

Anna Belfrage: Stepping Between – England 1308

Carolyn Hughes: Confronting Plague – England 1361

Patricia Furstenberg: Kate’s Letter – Transylvania 1478

Amy Maroney: The Portrait’s Secret – Paris 1536

Jean Gill: Legacy – England 1558

Cathie Dunn: Darkness Rising – Venezia 1923

Helen Hollick: A Taleteller’s Tale – The Caribbean 1709

Elizabeth St.John: The Gate – London 1900

Antoine Vanner: A Sack of Potatoes – The Netherlands 1954

Kathy Hollick-Bater: Grumpy Old Grandfather – Anywhere, Present-day

Cathy Helms of  Avalon Graphics designed this gorgeous cover and our graphics and Jean Gill Author, put the trailer and animation together. 
With an introduction by lovely Lorna Fergusson.

Fifteen authors. Fifteen journeys through history. One enduring theme: courage.

Across these pages, strangers become familiar, distant eras feel immediate, and the past reveals itself through the hopes, doubts, sacrifices, and resilience of those who lived it.

History is often remembered through battles, kings, revolutions, and great events. Yet the stories that linger longest are usually those that reveal the people behind them—the fears they carried, the choices they faced, and the moments when courage was demanded of ordinary lives.

 COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope is available in e-book & paperback from Amazon or order from any good bookstore.