Historical fiction you can disappear into.
Step into the dangerous unfamiliar worlds of the early nineteenth century—shaped by real history, complicated outsiders, and the beliefs that made people see the world differently.
New here? Start with A Half Flower
A young surgeon begins seeing things he was never meant to see.
Fleeing political persecution, French surgeon Balzac Voclain crosses the world to 1820’s Hawai’i seeking safety—only to enter an island kingdom in upheaval and face visions medicine cannot explain.
What readers are saying
“The worldbuilding … is absolutely incredible.”
Lily · Goodreads · A Half Flower
“It felt like I was truly immersed.”
Natalie · Goodreads · A Half Flower
“It pulls the reader in within the first chapter and you feel like you have to finish it.”
PunkAmori · Goodreads · The Adventuress
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Not ready to choose a book yet?
Mirà’s free Starter Library gives you first chapters, historical maps, character guides, and research from behind the stories.
New here? Begin with A Half Flower.
1820’s Hawai’i. Historical medicine. Cultural upheaval. A young surgeon confronted by things he cannot explain.
Prefer pirates and New Orleans? Start with The Adventuress instead.
Choose your historical world
Naupaka
France and Hawai’i · early nineteenth century
Medicine, belief, cultural upheaval, outsiders, and experiences that resist easy explanation.
Start with A Half Flower.
One Virtue And A Thousand Crimes
New Orleans and the Gulf · War of 1812 era
Smugglers, pirates, outsiders, dangerous loyalties, and people living where respectability and criminality blur together.
Start with The Adventuress.
History should feel lived, not explained.
I’m Mirà Kanehl. I write historical fiction built from research, sensory detail, and people whose worlds made sense to them—even when they seem strange to us.
I’m interested in the moments when cultures, beliefs and ambitions collide: a surgeon confronting medicine’s limits, a woman determined to claim the sea, a smuggler who insists he is a gentleman.
The history matters. But it matters because of what it does to the people living through it.
Go behind the fiction
The novels begin with imagination. Their worlds begin with research.
Explore the people, places, beliefs, books and strange historical details behind Mirà’s fiction—and discover other historical novels worth disappearing into.
History behind A Half Flower
History behind One Virtue And A Thousand Crimes
What to read next
Contact Mirà Kanehl
author@mira-kanehl.com