87 New Historical Fiction Books Hitting Shelves This Year

Two very different women's lives become unexpectedly entwined in "The Last Lifeboat" by Hazel Gaynor. In 1940, a plane crash near Alice's home inspires her to get involved with the evacuation of British children to safer temporary homes overseas. Lily, a would-be mathematician, has her life shattered by the German bombs falling daily, and she faces the heart-wrenching choice of whether or not to send her two children across the ocean until the war ends. When a ship carrying these young refugees to Canada is torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat, one lifeboat survives, and its occupants face a harrowing journey to safety, wherever that may be.

Release date: June 13