Free and Discounted Historical Fiction on Kindle
Historical fiction books are novels that are set in specific points in history, typically featuring characters of the author’s own imagination. These compelling stories weave together true historical facts with unique insights from the perspective of the fictional characters, making you see past events in an entirely different light.
Jane Digby’s Diary
Escape to another time and place with delightful Jane Digby. All three volumes of Jane Digby’s Diary are now available on Kindle Unlimited. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father. In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the ... Read more
Mistress of the Maze
Rosamund Clifford, one of the most famous royal mistresses of all time—concubine to Henry II, the first Plantagenet King. A young maiden ruled by a grasping father who will stop at nothing to promote his own cause with the King…even using his daughter’s beautiful face and enticing body to gain high favour. A fearful girl ... Read more
The Upside of Hunger
At 15, fleeing from a domineering father yet again, Adam found escape at the military recruitment station in Vienna. From a frozen foxhole on the Eastern Front, where a Russian bullet found its mark, Adam was catapulted into a series of terrifying captures and daring escapes as he crossed war-torn Europe on foot to find ... Read more
The Lieutenant’s Nurse
“An emotional and heartfelt tale of love and courage.” —Chanel Cleeton, bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana November, 1941. She’s never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh ... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the end of WWII, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $2.99 ... Read more
What Did You Do In The War, Sister?
Based on letters and documents written by Catholic Sisters during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, this book tells the remarkable story of these brave and faithful women, and how they served to resist the German forces. From running contraband to hiding Jews, from spying for the allies to small acts of sabotage, these courageous women ... Read more
One Night With Finnbar
Martin Atwater has big plans and high ideals, but he is no judge of character – least of all, his own. He is bored, restless, and on the verge of making a mistake that will cost him everything. Martin was born into a life of wealth and privilege. While on a visit to his uncle’s ... Read more
Gunslinger: Killer’s Brand
Shortly after finding a murdered man with a strange brand on his forehead, Connor and Abby Mack, along with their mentor, River Hicks, come to the aid of a black settler being menaced by a band of gunmen. Upon arrival in town to report the murder and the incident, they’re confronted by a powerful rancher ... Read more
Free: Lost Child
A baby girl abandoned at birth and raised in an orphanage is sent to the mid-west on an orphan train. Unwanted and unloved, she goes against all the odds to fight for survival. A story of female triumph and perseverance. How did she survive? Free on Kindle.... Read more
My Fair Lady
A beautiful young girl who always desired to be a Queen….and became one. Wed to a weak King, she still honored him as a loving husband who cherished his family. This was Eleanor’s tumultuous world in the 13th century. With Henry’s power slipping and the powerful Baron, Simon de Montfort, rising against his rule, Eleanor ... Read more
Free: Maid of Baikal
What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Lessons From My Mother’s Life
It was the 1950s. The war was over and women could go back to being happy housewives. But did they really want to? Women should have been contented to live a Leave it to Beaver life in the mid-20th century. They should have been fulfilled. Women’s magazines told them so. Advertisers told them so. Doctors ... Read more
The Mystery of Julia Episcopa
In ancient Rome, a woman flees for her life. Her enemies are those she once called ‘brother’. Hidden beneath her blue cloak are secrets men will kill for – forgeries that prove the newly self-appointed bishops are not followers of the way, but pretenders who have seized power and will stop at nothing to shape ... Read more
The White Rose Rent
The Tudor Era has dawned. Richard III lies in a shallow grave at Greyfriars in Leicester and Henry Tudor sits upon an uneasy throne. Richard’s illegitimate daughter, Katherine Plantagenet, wife of one year to William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon, struggles to find her path in the strange new world of Tudor England. Only fifteen years ... Read more
The Munich Girl
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. Plunged into the treacherous world of Nazi Germany, she uncovers long-buried family secrets, and the legacies of love that always outlast war. “Hard ... Read more
Witch of the Wild Beasts
Like prison romances? Try this new historical fantasy, which won a second prize in RWA’s Sheila contest. Will Evalina Stowe’s supernatural bond with animals be a curse or salvation? When a cruel doctor kills her brother, her “wild beasts” come to her aid and she’s imprisoned for witchcraft in Philadelphia’s infamous Eastern State Penitentiary. Set ... Read more
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth and raised in an orphanage was sent to the Midwest on an Orphan Train, and placed out as a farm laborer and housekeeper. Unloved and unwanted, she fought to survival in a lonely, abusive environment and an uncertain future. A story ... Read more
My Father, My King
It was inevitable that the new king would be very different from his father. What no one could foresee was where his penchant for action would lead. It was equally inevitable that Alfred’s brother, John, would do something outrageous. What no one would have predicted is just how far he would exceed the bounds of ... Read more
Settling the Wind
The harsh and rugged Colorado frontier of 1875 is not the type of place most would consider suitable for a recent widow to establish a home of her own. Yet that is exactly what Henrietta Schodde determines she will do as she impetuously buys a cabin in the newly forming settlement of Estes Park. Despite ... Read more
The Specter (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
To what lengths will one go to exorcise a specter? In 1892, people gather to mourn the death of San Francisco socialite, Penelope Alderdice. Among them is a strange little woman who claims to have known “Grace” as a young woman in the small coastal town of Waxwood. But Vivian, Penelope’s granddaughter, has never heard ... Read more
God’s Sacred Feast
A collision of flesh and spirit! Deacon Sugarfoot Collins takes a vow of celibacy after being named in an embarrassing scandal. Believing he’ll never find love, he resigns himself to a life of loneliness. But then, the unexpected happens. The woman of his dreams is hiding in plain sight. She’s the heiress to a substantial ... Read more
Free: Lost Child
On October 27, 1915, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, she was sent to the mid-west on an orphan train, and placed out as a farm laborer. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive and build a new life, in a frightening new world. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Deputy’s Promise
Deputy Matthias Garnett vowed to protect his best friend’s sister from a gang of outlaws set on vengeance. Getting her to safety may spare her life, but will she lose her heart in the process? With time running out and the devils on their tail, can this Deputy keep his promise? Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Stonegate Sword
A wonderfully told story of character, faith, and military action set in the future…which seems like the past! Harry James Fox scores with a unique story that blends the past with an apocalyptic future to produce an adventure of character, faith, and military action. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Divided We Fall
Magnus is a Viking who has lost the taste for war and raiding. But when he’s savagely split apart from his family, he must embark on a perilous quest to reunite with them. He dusts off his axe and shield, knowing that betrayal and danger will meet him at every turn. Making blood-feuds along the ... Read more
The Munich Girl
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. Plunged into the treacherous world of Nazi Germany, she uncovers long-buried family secrets, and the legacies of love that always outlast war. “Hard ... Read more
Across Great Divides
Across Great Divides is a timeless, World War II story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, one Jewish family refuses to be destroyed and defies the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting Apartheid in South Africa. $0.99 on ... Read more
Four
Four is a gritty, gruesome, intoxicating and thriller book of twin boys whose world is disrupted by their government who is forcing them to fight for the value of their lives. The boys have trained in a camp with other children their ages and above, they learn the ins and outs of the competition and ... Read more
Second Son
It is the dawn of the Renaissance, a time when new ideas are just beginning to emerge. Alfred — the eponymous second son — comes of age in the enlightened court of his grandfather. Alfred is convinced that his life will be unremarkable, spent in diligent but mundane service to the king. His grandfather, however, ... Read more
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 1)
Sometimes no father is better than a false father. In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man’s artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the ... Read more
Free: New Orleans Lynchings: A Frank Vito Bounty Hunter Series (Historical Western Thriller) Book 4
Bounty hunters Frank Vito and Ellie Stockwell are on the trail of Bloody Bob Anderson, a dark and endlessly violent case that will lead them straight to winding streets of New Orleans. New Orleans Lynchings in the fourth installment in the bestselling Frank Vito Bounty Hunter Series. Free on Kindle.... Read more
La Viña De Dios (The Godvine)
Valentina Del Viento has the gifts of the wind and foreshadowing. Having used The Divine Liquid, she travels over 100 years to find the man of whom she sees in her visions. The man she’s destined to be with. Time, religion, love, culture, evil and even the paranormal all collide in this fascinating, epic tale ... Read more
The Falconer’s Apprentice
The Falconer’s Apprentice tells the tale of an adventuresome 15-year old orphan, who embarks on a precipitous flight across Europe to rescue the falcon Adela. A crotchety falconer, a secretive trader and his feisty daughter, a mysterious hermit, a young king in prison, an aging emperor, and an irascible Arab physician are among the principal ... Read more
The Falconer’s Apprentice
The Falconer’s Apprentice tells the tale of an adventuresome 15-year old orphan, who embarks on a precipitous flight across Europe to rescue the falcon Adela. A crotchety falconer, a secretive trader and his feisty daughter, a mysterious hermit, a young king in prison, an aging emperor, and an irascible Arab physician are among the principal ... Read more
The Burden of Sweetberry
A powerful story of adultery and murder, The Burden of Sweetberry portrays a woman who seeks redemption after her lover murders her fiance. Ghosts and demons haunt Sweetberry and threaten to rob her of her sanity. Can the blood of Jesus cleanse her or will the ghost of Luther drive her insane? $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the end of World War II, Anna is plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia ... Read more
Spite Fences
It’s 1960 in the Jim Crow south. Everyone knows what side of the tracks they belong on, and the price to be paid for crossing the line. 13-year-old Maggie Pugh needs to decide who she’s going to stand with. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Third Daughter (The Royals of Dharia, Book One)
Being Third Daughter of the Queen means Aniri is free to love her fencing instructor—until a marriage proposal from a barbarian prince forces her to choose between preventing a war and breaking her heart. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Edge of Revolt
The last thing David expects is that his beloved son will topple him from the throne. The betrayal threatens not only his life but also his legacy. Coming back to power will put his son in danger. Is David ready for his next move? Free on Kindle.... Read more
