Founded in 2025, Admiral Road Books is defined by dedication to craft and the timeless power of human storytelling. Our titles—including Red Snow in Winter, The Ghost of Madison Avenue, and The Heiress of Northanger Abbey—are forged through intense historical research, world-building, and emotional depth. We believe literature requires a human soul.
Nancy Bilyeau loves crafting immersive historical stories, whether it’s Jazz Age New York City in The Orchid Hour, the 18th-century Gothic manors, salons, and porcelain workshops in The Versailles Formula, or Henry VIII’s tumultuous England in The Crown. Her new novel is The Heiress of Northanger Abbey, a sequel to the Jane Austen classic. A magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of Rolling Stone, Good Housekeeping, and Entertainment Weekly, Nancy draws on her journalism experience to research her books. For her Genevieve Planche novels, she also draws on her heritage to create a Huguenot heroine. Nancy is a descendant of Pierre Billiou, a French Huguenot who immigrated to what was then New Amsterdam (later New York City) in 1661. Pierre’s stone house still stands and is the third oldest house in New York State. Nancy lives with her family in upstate New York and enjoys reading, gardening, cooking, and touring historic houses in the Hudson Valley. Visit Nancy’s website at nancybilyeau.com.
The stories his father told him about his time as an intelligence officer in World War II inspired Max Eastern to write his debut historical novel, Red Snow in Winter. He has written nonfiction articles about subjects ranging from Ulysses Grant’s first command to Attila the Hun. His modern noir novel, The Gods Who Walk Among Us, was a Kindle Scout selection in 2016. The novel won praise from Terrie Farley Moran, national bestselling co-author of the Jessica Fletcher ‘Murder She Wrote’ mystery series, who said, “I found a great new-to-me author in Max Eastern. I love how he brought his characters to life and made the situations in this novel seem as though they were happening in front of me.” A lawyer specializing in publishing, Max Eastern resides in New York State. His author website can be found here.
