In The Lost Wife, Sarah Brinton is a fictional character based on Sarah Wakefield, a white woman taken captive in the 1862 US-Dakota War.

Lady Macbeth is a minor historical figure who became a literary badass because of one historically inaccurate play. Until now.

In Finding Margert Fuller, Allison Pataki takes readers into the fascinating life of Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century America intellectual.