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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Ooh. Barbara Hamilton is the pseudonym of my favourite writers, whose publisher apparently decided she should adopt it to try and break out of the midlist doldrums as a "new" author with that series.
If you end up liking Ninth Daughter, you might also want to look up Patriot Hearts under her regular name (nearly the same, but ends with -bly). It's a straight historical set from the viewpoints of Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, Abigail Adams, and Sally Hemings and pretty decent, though not nearly as good as The Emancipator's Wife, which is her Mary Todd Lincoln novel which was a finalist for a Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in a Civil War Novel. She also writes excellent sf/fantasy and other historical mysteries.....*respectful snippage*
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I didn't like Ninth Daughter, I LOVED it!! And I knew the "secret" of the pseudonym, because I stumbled on it while trying to find out if there was going to be a third in the series, (there is!). I will definitely look up the ones you recommended, because I fell in love with her writing. Thanks!
Now I'm reading "Her Royal Spyness" by Rhys Bowen. Still historical, but fast forwarded about three centuries, LOL (it's set in the 1930's). I figured I'd start this series because of the "royal fever" that is or will be gripping us here in the USA due to William and Kate's wedding.