O, JULIET
by Robin Maxwell

Robin Maxell’ O, Juliet is a new take of the famous Shakespeare love story, Romeo and Juliet. Maxell fleshes out Juliet, the poetess and Romeo, the peacemaker. “Her star-crossed young lovers are just as unforgettable as the Bard's, and now readers get to see what happens off-stage," writes Sharon Kay Penman, New York Times bestselling author of Devil's Brood. Great idea for reading group discussion -- read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Maxwell’s O, Juliet to compare and contrast!

SMALL ISLAND
by Andrea Levy

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.

GRAVE GOODS
by Ariana Franklin

When a fire at Glastonbury Abbey reveals two skeletons, rumor has it they may belong to King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. King Henry II hopes so, for it would help him put down a rebellion in Wales, where the legend of Celtic savior Arthur is strong. To make certain, he sends Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to Glastonbury to examine the skeletons. Trouble is, someone at Glastonbury doesn't want either mystery solved, and is prepared to kill to prevent it...