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.
Free: Winds of Betrayal 1 & 2
A rousing family saga for the fight for America’s independence! The winds of change brews over the colonies. Tension against the crown is mounting daily. With war looming on the horizon, it will be soon discovered there is a high price to be paid for the cry for freedom. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Willows: The Creole
The Arceneauxs have a long history of falling victim to circumstance, but heir to the family home, one woman is determined the legacy will end with her. Embroiled in the fleecing of New York’s bridge funds, she is offered a new life in New Orleans, but what she finds is an abandoned house, a fractured ... Read more
Vanquished
Known as The Maid of Mayfair for her unassailable virtue, unwavering resolve, and quiet dignity, suffragette leader, Caledonia ~ Callie — Rivers is the perfect counter for detractors’ portrayal of the women as rabble rousers, lunatics, even whores. But a high~ranking enemy within the government will stop at nothing to ensure that the Parliamentary bill ... Read more
The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army
During the tense summer of 1932, a charismatic hobo leads 20,000 jobless World War I veterans into Washington, D.C. to demand payment of their service compensation. In this epic novel that sweeps across three decades, eight Americans come of age in Europe, only to reunite during the Great Depression to determine the fate of a ... Read more
The Grass Sweeper God
Sixteen-year-old Smiley Hanlon is a young woman trapped in a young man’s body. In the 1950’s Appalachia coal fields of Solitude, Virginia, Smiley is placed in the “Mentally Retarded Class” because he is effeminate and wears a blouse and saddle shoes to school. Smiley is backed by his best friend, Lee Moore who protects Smiley ... Read more
Corral Nocturne: A Novella
Lonely and isolated on her ill-tempered brother’s ranch, Ellie Strickland has almost given up hope of finding friends, or a sweetheart. But when she meets Cole Newcomb, the handsome, well-to-do heir to the biggest ranch in the county, her summer is transformed. Cole’s invitation to the Fourth of July dance might mean a dream come ... Read more
A Peek at Bathsheba
At the height of his political success, David (of the Old Testament) takes a stumble, which threatens to undermine all his achievements. He falls in love with a married woman, Bathsheba, and then tries to cover up the scandal, and have her husband, Uriah, carry his own death sentence to his commander, Joav. Only then ... Read more
Free: Sergei and Hans
In a WWI prison camp, a German guard discovers a Russian prisoner’s journal. The guard then invites the prisoner over for Christmas dinner where they recount their stories of the beginning of the war, and together they share one last meal. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Hard Road Home
The Civil War has arrived in idyllic but poor Louisiana. Riley, a young man in his twenties, is a land owner with a wife and a child on the way. He wants nothing more in life than to work his land and provide for his family. But when soldiers show up on his property one ... Read more
Free: RC and RUBY Screenplay
RC and RUBY Screenplay is an Amazon Kindle book that is adapted from the historical romantic action novel, Atlantic City Nazi. The major locales are along the US coastline from Newport, RI to Key West, Fl and include locations in Germany prior to World War II. The Screenplay is preceded by a Treatment (Hollywood version ... Read more
Blurred Memories
Helen Dorcell is about to marry the one man she was meant for. She didn’t count on a war turning her world upside down. It is 1941 and as lovers and husbands are shipped off, a twist of fate will force her into the arms of another man. But an accident will plunge Helen on ... Read more
The Forgotten Seamstress
Customer review: “This is a soul-stirring story that will satisfy historical and contemporary fiction readers alike.” $1.99 on Kindle, today only (4/28/2015).... Read more
Breaking TWIG
Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life. Not even ... Read more
Free: Kurinji Flowers
In the mid 1930s Ginny has been abused by a family friend and alienated from her well-intentioned but bossy mother. When the truth of her abusive past comes out, her marriage prospects are ruined – but Tony Tilman, a handsome tea planter offers her another chance for love and she marries him and joins him ... Read more
Deathspell
A boy orphaned by violence grows up in the shadow of his father’s murder. His older brother offers him a home, but the life of a farmer is a poor fit for Christian Richardson. Set in England in the 1400s, the Wars of the Roses litters the country with plenty of jobs for a young ... Read more
Free: Orphan Moon
“Orphan Moon,” is a historical fiction novel about a young woman in 1860’s Texas who must undertake a grueling physical journey and face countless dangers, or lose everything she holds dear. It is a heart-wrenching saga of family love, loss, and betrayal. Both a gripping adventure and a timeless love story, it gallops across the ... Read more
Across Great Divides
Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel connects two ... Read more
Patrick’s Journey
“Patrick’s Journey” is based on one of those true life stories where fact can seem stranger than fiction. A young 18th century Irishman runs foul of the occupying British redcoats and finds himself banished to a penal colony on the other side of the world. The “journey” in the story is twofold. One is his physical ... Read more
The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas
Scotland’s 14th-century hero, the Black Douglas, defies three English Plantagenet kings and champions the cause of his wavering friend, Robert the Bruce, to lead the armies to the bloody field of Bannockburn. A thrilling historical saga of star-crossed love and heroic sacrifice during the Scottish Wars of Independence. (Historical fiction — $0.99 on Kindle).... Read more
Free: 1964
Richard Warren is growing up as a ten-year-old boy in the rural hills of North Yorkshire, UK. Childhood isn’t always as easy as it seems as he deals with work, family conflict, death, and class warfare. Will Richard manage to overcome these toils at such a tender age? Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Towers of Tuscany
Set in medieval Italy, this is a beautifully crafted masterpiece of historical fiction and romance. Just $1.99 on Kindle (3/17/2015 only).... Read more
The Young Lions
Action, adventure and erotic entanglements loom large in young Robert Hamilton’s future as he seeks to make his fortune in the rough and tumble world of the Johannesburg goldfields in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Robert’s business interests and adventures in the wilds of South Africa, bring him into close contact with the ... Read more
“Across The Pond” by Michael McCormick
“Across The Pond” by Michael McCormick is the story of a young American who fights for his country during the war in Vietnam, only to be rejected when he comes home. The author based the story on his personal experience as an infantry squad leader who served in combat. Upon his return to the United ... Read more
Brigid of Ireland
In 5th century Ireland Brigid is a slave to her father. When he decides to rid himself of her, she begins a journey across the wild landscape to find her mother. She meets a mysterious poet and a kindly old druid who try to help her but is stalked by a man who believes she ... Read more
Free: Flowers in the Snow
If you step across the threshold of Betty Grafton’s house, you can be sure of two things: she’ll feed you until you’re ready to bust and she’ll love you before you even realize you’re worthy of it. But soon sad news forces her to relive the darkest moments of her life, she decides to share ... Read more
War Brides
Customer review: “What a great story, and beautifully told, too. This is fantastic historical fiction.” $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: “The Watcher: A Jack the Ripper Mystery”
After the death of their overbearing father, brothers John and Jack Saunders experience freedom on the streets of London for the very first time, but whilst one wishes only to have a normal life, his brother wants to destroy it. Elizabeth Coles, a runaway from Lincolnshire, learns the identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper, ... Read more
Voyage of the Heart
From bestselling author Soraya Lane comes a story of friendship, love, and heartbreak at the end of World War II. 1945: Along with hundreds of other war brides, Betty, Madeline, Alice, and June set sail for New York to be with the men they love. Life in a new country comes with many challenges, but Betty, Madeline, ... Read more
Jessica
All Jessica’s friends are already married and have families. Believing that true love will never come her way, she settles for the man she sees as her last chance. He’s handsome and charming, but also a ne’er-do-well–Zachary Belk. Jessica’s father, a highly successful businessmen in 1860’s Manhattan, warns her against the marriage. Jessica doesn’t want to go against ... Read more
Capturing The Marshal’s Heart
Ex-prostitute Jazzy Morgan wants a respectable future and boards a stagecoach heading west. US Marshal Slade Thomas is on the trail of a bank robber and gets a jolt when he realizes he’s sharing the stage with three women who fit the description on the wanted poster. A lawman is the last man Jazzy should ... Read more
Favorite Daughter (Historical Fiction)
Much of what we know about Pocahontas comes from the writing of John Smith and the other colonists, who reported on what they found in the new land when they returned to England. Favorite Daughter, Part One is based on my research on works about her by Native Americans, many of whom tell a darker ... Read more
The Edge of Revolt
When rape and killing occur in the royal family, they affect stability in the entire country. Struggling to balance justice and love for his sons, David is silent when they commit crimes–until he finds the right successor, who will continue his legacy. Toppled from his throne, David must escape from his beloved son, Absalom, and ... Read more
Free: “All My Love, Detrick”
Detrick, a German boy, was born with the qualities that the Nazi’s considered superior, ensuring his future as a leader of Adolph Hitler’s Aryan race. But on his 7th birthday, an unexpected event changed the course of his destiny forever. Find out what happens. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Historical Fiction: “Storykeeper”
This story from the Native American point of view about the conquest of the New World by Hernando DeSoto brings our history alive. Dive into a new historical drama. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Paper Magician
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00HVF7OL0″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Set at Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, The Paper Magician connect readers with the protagonist, Ceony Twill, a self-propelled heroine who—armed with only a photographic memory and a stack of paper—greets every new surprise with aplomb. Truly, this book is charming. ... Read more
