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.
Daughter of the King
La Rochelle France, 1661. Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Catholic King. Isabelle is tortured and harassed, her people forced to convert to the religion that rules the land. She risks her life by helping her fellow Protestants, which is forbidden by the powers of France. She accepts her fate — ... Read more
The White Cockade
The White Cockade is the story of the early days of the American Revolution and of the men and women caught up in it: Josiah, who doesn’t want war but can’t escape it. Hugo, once Josiah’s best friend but now his bitter enemy. Mercy, who dreams of marrying Josiah. Walter, eager to fight the British. ... Read more
The Secret War of 1834
Happening just beneath the veneer of recorded history. A doctor, while trying to find a cure for his wife and son, who are dying of tuberculosis, inadvertently concocts a zombie-like plague that is spreading across the population of a young and tender nation. It is up to a small band of heroes to champion the ... Read more
Manhattan Ember
From the No. 1 Bestselling Author. 1866 – In New York’s roughest immigrant enclave, two Irish orphans pave different lives, one finds respectability and the other becomes a proud brothel madam. 40 years later, they come together to solve a mystery that confounded Manhattan. “A finely crafted epic novel from one of Ireland’s greatest historical ... Read more
Lantern Across the Sea
Bastone, a 13th century Genoese sailor and spy, and Esmeray, a Greek fisherman’s daughter fall in love. Amid a chaotic and dangerous world of pirates, assassins, slave traders, and hostile family prejudice, must together prevent a history-changing catastrophe. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Rusted Lantern
Pirates. Mermaids. Time travel. Adventure. Jason is a modern-day teenage surfer in San Diego, California, raised by his single father. When he happens upon an ancient boat dock lantern high up in Sunset Cliffs, he’s transported to the year 1858. Confused and trapped in this new time period, his adventure begins, the magic lantern guiding ... Read more
Free: Magnus Maximus
The true story of an actual evil genius who gets 5 foreign armies to invade Britain in 367 AD, killing 100,00 Britons in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the real-life man sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus means Maximum Great – that’s his name and he’ll become Roman emperor in 383. But this ... Read more
The Dawning
An age-old story of deadly struggle, lovers torn apart and their unwavering promise to find each other again. Can Ejil and Lada beat the odds despite growing tensions between the Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals? Travel back to the Ice Age with Richard W. Wise’s “The Dawning” to find out. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Anonymous Scribe
When the lie is two thousand years old, who, exactly, will the truth set free? While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the ... Read more
Operation Teardrop
Losing the war, Hitler turns to his miracle weapons to hurt the Americans anyway he can. In the last days of the Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler sends a wolfpack of U-boats to launch V-2 rockets in an attack on New York City. Operation Teardrop tells the strange but true story of this final desperate ... Read more
Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel (Pale Rider Alternative History Book 1)
Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! When we lost the American Rebellion against the British in the 1700s, the world for the colonists changed for the worse. After centuries of suffering under the oppressive thumb of the English crown, a wealthy American entrepreneur in the 21st century finds ... Read more
Free: The Legend Is Born
This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is W0tto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has ... Read more
Diary of A Fallen Empire
Diary of a Fallen Empire is a gripping historical drama, and at the center of it is the determined yet conflicted, Constantina, the Emperor’s twin sister, who is carving her place in this theater of war. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and Hitler’s lover – and untangles a web of long-buried secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like ... Read more
The Enchanted Suitcase
The author discovers her German father’s WWII memoirs and embarks on a journey through romantic Paris, the surrender at Normandy, a POW camp in Alabama, and a new life in America. The memoirs reveal unseen sides of her father and provide a glimpse into the life of a German soldier during WWII. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Sign of Nine Stripes
They say the third time’s lucky. And Angus believes his success lies in the colonies. With an offer of employment, he sails the Atlantic for the third time. What could go wrong? But there’s an undercurrent of danger running through the colonies now. Smuggling, protests, and secret organizations are the norm. New taxes and restrictions ... Read more
Free: Warriors of the Forgotten Way: The Samurai Cowboys – Book One
In the spring of 1870, Cade Wilson is one of three orphans of the American Civil War that meet a samurai warrior from Japan in the northern New Mexico Territory. This warrior trains these young men in the samurai way––in their weapons of war and the code they live by. As honor-bound servants to their ... Read more
Shattered Pieces Can Still Shine – Georgie’s story
Georgie, born to a single mother in post WW2, Cumberland, dreams throughout her childhood of becoming a dancer, but instead falls victim to sexual abuse by her stepfather, and then neglect and rejection by both her mother and her absent father. She runs away to London where she is able to kick start her dancing ... 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 this ... Read more
The Theodora Duology: Fortune’s Child; Too Soon the Night (The Complete Story of Empress Theodora) (Box set)
Theodora, the most powerful woman of the Byzantine Era, navigates political and religious politics, wars, rebellions, and the first world pandemic, all in a male-dominated sixth century. The Evita of her day and someone you should know! Fortune’s Child: Winner of the Overall Chanticleer Int’l Grand Prize, Best Book. Too Soon the Night: Winner of ... Read more
Fortune’s Call
What begins as a high-spirited jaunt west to claim easy riches becomes a grim race for survival. Pegg is only 13 when he and his father set off for the gold fields of California. But by the standards of the 1840’s, he’s on the verge of manhood. Unfortunately, the third person in their party, Fred ... Read more
Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel (Pale Rider Alternative History Book 1)
Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! When we lost the American Rebellion against the British in the 1700s, the world for the colonists changed for the worse. After centuries of suffering under the oppressive thumb of the English crown, a wealthy American entrepreneur in the 21st century finds ... Read more
Free: The Bregdan Chronicles
The Amazon best-selling Bregdan Chronicles bring the years during the Civil War and Reconstruction to life in a riveting fashion – using characters you will fall in love with and history that is meticulously researched. Romance. Danger. Challenges. Joys It’s all here, waiting to be discovered. Millions worldwide have already joined The Bregdan Chronicles Family ... Read more
Nina Winter and the Age of Darkness
The things that happen to us don’t define us. The way we react and what we believe does. Nina Winter and the Age of Darkness is a story about a peasant girl living during the Dark Ages in a tiny village tucked away in the Bavarian Forest. She’s the lowest of the low on society’s ... Read more
Free: The Brittle Saga Trilogy
The Titanic disaster triggers a bloody-feud between two families in early 20th century America. Magda Asparov, a young woman from Ukraine, is part of an arranged marriage, and due to travel to America to marry Matthew Turner, a shrewd and unscrupulous American businessman. In return for taking the Asparov’s daughter as his bride, Turner is ... Read more
Free: Magnus Maximus 1
In 367 AD, an actual evil genius gets 5 foreign armies to invade Britain in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the real-life hero sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus means Maximum Great – that’s his name and he’ll become a Roman emperor in 383. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Return to Burke County
Fans of historical fiction might like Return to Burke County. Based on a true story, this novel tells the story of love, loss, plots and justice in the Appalachian Mountains just after the US civil war. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Jane Digby’s Diary
“As the depth of truth of one’s life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your heart.” – Peggy Lee Sprague, Author of The Truth Hunters series ... Read more
Half Notes From Berlin
Berlin, 1933. Hans believes he and his family are safe from persecution. Then, he discovers his family’s dirty secret: his maternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Christianity. Driven by the desire to understand who he is and whether his mother’s blood is tainted, Hans befriends Rebecca, the only Jewish girl he knows. Perhaps if ... Read more
Chains of Time
Winner of the 2021 American Fiction Award for Historical Fantasy Winner of the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Award for Paranormal Fiction “A perceptive and gripping tale of race and family.” — Kirkus Reviews Amara saw him in her visions. She knew that the slaver Van Owen would come — that he would raid her village, ... Read more
There Were No Flowers
William Meffert, his father, and his son are all surgeons. From World War II and Vietnam to today, they have all fought the battle for human life. In There Were No Flowers, Meffert links together the individual lives of grandfather, father, and son to tell a story of war, surgery, trauma, and the joys of ... Read more
My Mother’s Friend
It is August 1944, and seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist, finds herself at Camp Algona, a POW camp that opened last spring near her hometown in Iowa. Unexpectedly, she meets one of the POWs, Sgt. Horst Ebinger, the leader of the prisoner music groups at the camp. Phee is recruited to be the accompanist ... Read more
Between the Cracks: One Woman’s Journey from Sicily to America
An unforgettable story of love, loss, and courage! . . . After her entire family is killed in the earthquake following Mt. Etna’s eruption in 1908, Angela Lanza accepts a marriage proposal, beginning a new life that takes her from Sicily to New York. This is a vibrantly accurate portrayal of the Italian-American immigrant experience ... Read more
Answering Liberty’s Call: Anna Stone’s Daring Ride to Valley Forge
Based on a true story! In January 1778, 29-year old Anna Stone sets out for Valley Forge with life-sustaining supplies for her husband and brothers. Along the way, she’s recruited as a spy–and now the the fate of the American Revolution rests in her hands! Can she elude capture and deliver a crucial message to ... Read more
Lantern Across the Sea
Bastone, a 13th century Genoese sailor and spy, and Esmeray, a Greek fisherman’s daughter fall in love. Amid a chaotic and dangerous world of pirates, assassins, slave traders, and hostile family prejudice, must together prevent a history-changing catastrophe. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Lost Gospel of Peace
Dear Kindle Readers, I have written a historical novel, and I am hoping that you will find my novel, The Lost Gospel of Peace, intriguing and engaging. The Lost Gospel of Peace reveals long held Biblical secrets that will put things into a totally new perspective. It is a unique use of fiction to unearth ... Read more
Free: A Face in the Night
In his remarkable debut novel, Ray Kessler takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through recent German history. He masterfully moves between past and present timelines, weaving fictitious events with historical facts. Kessler creates a tale of mystery, intrigue, and suspense with a possible paranormal twist. Set in Berlin in 2000 and during the ... Read more
Queensborough Rock
Stephen Shaiken practiced criminal law in for more than thirty-five years, the first four in Brooklyn, and the rest in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Queens College and Brooklyn Law School, and earned an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University before starting his legal studies. He and his wife Josie ... Read more
Cracking of the Mask
Everything had been planned and executed to perfection. Where was the satisfaction, then? Why was happiness always so elusive? Zenon McClow, a businessman with a checkered past, flees the United States, hiding first in Ecuador and then in the tropical paradise of New Caledonia. Plagued by burning existential questions, he begins to write down his ... Read more
Free: THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES
A woman is killed near the beach. There is little evidence. But the crime bears the hallmarks of several similar murders some time ago. The trouble is that the man supposedly responsible was sent to the gallows… Set in the aftermath of the First World War, THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES is an intriguing murder ... Read more
