For Immediate Press Release

Founder and Editor, Colin Mustful
editor@historythroughfiction.com
historythroughfiction.com
651.788.0055

Minneapolis, MN, May 9, 2022

History Through Fiction, an independent press located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is excited to announce the signing of author Patricia Bernstein.

Patricia Bernstein is a writer, historian, and publicist living in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of Smith College with a Degree of Distinction in American Studies. She founded her own public relations agency in Houston, now in business for over thirty years. Her three non-fiction books have all focused on history. Having a Baby: Mothers Tell Their Stories, published by Simon & Schuster, is a collection of first-person childbirth stories from the 1890s to the 1990s. The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP and Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan, about the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, were both published by Texas A & M University Press. In 2018, Ten Dollars to Hate, was a finalist for an award from the Texas Institute of Letters. The Austin American Statesman has twice named the book one of the fifty best books ever written about Texas.

Bernstein’s upcoming debut novel, A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower, is based on the true story of a persecuted Catholic noblewoman who rescued her husband from the Tower of London the night before his scheduled execution by carrying out an elaborate plan with the help of a group of devoted women friends. Set amid the turbulence of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion against England’s first German king, George I, the novel depicts the ruthless persecution of Catholics and the relentless determination of the protagonist Bethan Glentaggart to save the life of her husband Gavin after he is captured and condemned to death. Bethan faces down a mob attack on her home, travels alone from the Scottish Lowlands to London through one of the worst snowstorms in many years, and confronts a cruel king before his court to plead for mercy for her husband. As a last resort, Bethan and her friends must devise and put in motion a devilishly complex scheme featuring multiple disguises and even the judicious use of poison to try to free her beloved Gavin. Though rich with historical gossip and pageantry, Bethan’s story also demonstrates the damage that politics and religious fanaticism can inflict on the lives of individuals. The Catholics of that period could be seen as representing any oppressed religious minority fighting persecution, even now.

Bernstein is the fifth author signed by History Through Fiction, an independent press founded by author and historian Colin Mustful. Established on the idea that fiction can have footnotes, History Through Fiction publishes novels that combine elements of fiction and nonfiction in order to tell stories that are both entertaining and educational. By publishing well-written, compelling historical novels, books by History Through Fiction bring history to life while also acting as important historical resources.

For more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact the editor at: editor@historythroughfiction.com.