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.

A Stream to Follow

Jess Wright

A riveting narrative that moves from post-WWII America to battle-sieged England to the killing fields of Alsace, A Stream to Follow plunges deep into the crucible of trauma and gives fresh vision for paths to redemption—ultimately weaving an uplifting tale of valor, resilience, and enduring love. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Lost Child

Jean Dunstan

A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 1915, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, at age 12, she rode an Orphan train to the Midwest. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive in a frightening new world and build her life. How does she ... Read more

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Free: The Legend Is Born

Gerald Knight

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 W?tto, 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

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Clay Legionary

J. Clifton Slater

All heroes have an origin – some are more noble than others Growing up on his father’s farm in Tuscany, the far north of the Roman Republic, Alerio Sisera has a unique talent. Unfortunately, his skills manifest themselves when he is too young to handle the consequences. From a farm boy to a battle-hardened commander ... Read more

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Free: The Swordmaster’s Daughter

Terri Green

Women with swords, men with agendas, an enemies-to-lovers historical where girl-power conquers all. A swordmaster’s daughter, her secret band of female fencers, and a handsome scotsman whose sister has fallen prey to a cruel predator, join forces in a quest for justice. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Magnus Maximus 1

Brent Reilly

Get the 31-book historical saga free! Meet the greatest Roman you’ve never heard of. In what historians call the Great Conspiracy of 367, 5 foreign invaders raid Britain to drive out Romans. The emperor sends Magnus Maximus with 4 legions in a war that decides Rome’s fate. A real hero in true events! Free on ... Read more

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How Fires End

Marco Rafala

A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption. A ”beautiful, mesmerizing” novel (Alexander Chee), that is ”a moving depiction of multigenerational loss and love, grief and gratitude, heartbreak and hope.” (Kirkus Reviews). How ... Read more

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Cracking of the Mask

Alexander and Maria Green

Cracking of the Mask is a thrilling novel that combines past and present; antiquity and modernity. It will take readers on an adventure not only to the ancient land of the Thracians, but also to the mysterious territory that is the inner depths of our minds. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Beardstown

Sam Foster

Beardstown boldly tracks the sweep of the nineteenth century across middle America and features an incredible cast of characters, from farmers, philosophers, soldiers, and gamblers to calculating entrepreneurs, charming and brilliant madams, and even a young captain-turned-lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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

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Secret of the Old Tower

Carol Amorosi

Yearning to prove his worth, Angus returns to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all and unravel a solution? With his life on the line, the stakes have ... Read more

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Lost Treasure of Petersburg

James Arnold

Civil War Gold was found in a secret lost tunnel underneath a mansion in Petersburg, Virginia over 100 years after it was placed there. Join the special unit called the “Protectors” as they make their way across America pulling wagons full of gold and the fight to keep it. Learn the most well-guarded secret between ... Read more

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Finding The Lost Dutchman’s Gold

James Arnold

1860s America. Jacob Waltz known as the “Dutchman” to many has come to America from Germany to find his fortune. He is a miner by trade and has been told of unknown riches in America. After traveling the country searching for gold for over a year he ends up in the Superstition mountains. in Phoenix ... Read more

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Secret of the Old Tower

Carol Amorosi

Yearning to prove his worth, Angus returns to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all and unravel a solution? With his life on the line, the stakes have ... Read more

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My Mother’s Friend

Sally Jameson Bond

What if a seventeen-year-old Iowa girl meets a German prisoner of war at Camp Algona, and what if they fall in love? For her debut novel, Sally Jameson Bond draws on her passions for World War II history, music, and her home state of Iowa to weave an endearing story of forbidden love, lies, and ... Read more

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Second Chance

Michael Roberts

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

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Death on the Line

Carol Amorosi

He signed on to map the New World, not solve a cold-blooded homicide. But his dream job just became his worst nightmare… Colonial America, 1760s. Angus MacKay worries he’ll never measure up. Passed from one distant relative to another, the math-minded orphan thinks he’s caught his lucky break when he’s hired by the famous surveying ... Read more

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Forgotten Valor

Richard Thomas Lane

A green lieutenant. A ruthless enemy. A heart-rending choice that will haunt him the rest of his life. If he lives. Korea 1950: When North Korea launches a surprise invasion of the South, Lt. Jonas Stuyvesant finds himself leading his platoon against a battle-hardened enemy. What should be an easy victory turns into a desperate ... Read more

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Revelations From the Dead: Chronicles of the Night Waster

Max Fischer

It’s not a horror novel, but it is ghoulish. It’s fiction, but it’s closely based upon the historical record. Connecticut, 1837: Cabinetmaker’s apprentice Thomas Sullivan deals with the sting of his father’s rejection while an epidemic rages about the countryside. As the disease takes members of his master’s home, Thomas helps the Shaffer family through ... Read more

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Free: Cover Me With My Izar : A Jewish Family Saga

Nora Houri-Haim

Through a series of stories that span several generations, ‘Cover Me with My Izar’, brings to vivid life the modern history of Iraqi Jews. The stories are fascinating, humorous, filled with humanity, always captivating, and brimming with heart. Each story is told from the viewpoint of a different character across the generations. From the tales ... Read more

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Free: The Scent of Gardenias

Lorraine Haas

Determined to escape her hard life, Margaret defies her father and marries. When her husband’s killed, Margaret struggles to survive. Another marriage holds promise but she when finds she’s living a life of secrets, it threatens everything. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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A Panther Crosses Over

Sam Foster

Read book 1 in the American Trilogy series before book 2, Beardstown, publishes on Oct 4! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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City of Liars

Michelle Fogle

When the Inquisition holds its first public execution in Barcelona, it draws a Catholic heiress and a Jewish navigator into a secret alliance to smuggle would-be targets to safety by sea. As the rescue mission unfolds, a forbidden love blooms between them. Will their heart-stopping escape plan outfox the vicious regime, or will it cost ... Read more

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The Shimmering

Michael L. Clark

Romance. Drama. Mystery. Beware The Shimmering, book one in Michael L. Clark’s gripping historical, time-traveling trilogy. Emily and Daniel Lane, a happily married couple, are attempting to live a simpler life and live it to the fullest on their small farm in rural middle Tennessee. The two become separated when Daniel, while on a trail ... Read more

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Free: Fate’s Final Destiny

E T McNamara

Fate’s Final Destiny is the epic story of two young children growing up on the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Great Depression. As they become childhood sweethearts and fall in love, tragic family and world events cause their separation. Forced to live parallel but separate lives, they learn to navigate and survive the difficult times ahead, ... Read more

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A Stream to Follow

Jess Wright

With a story that moves from post-war America back to the killing fields of Alsace and to England under the siege of German rockets, “A Stream to Follow” gives fresh vision for paths to healing. Plunging deep into the crucible of trauma, it’s an uplifting tale of valor, resilience, and the search for enduring love. ... Read more

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Lost Child

Jean Dunstan

A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 2015, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, she was sent on an Orphan train to the Midwest. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive in a frightening new world and build her life. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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West From Here

William Brown

West From Here is a timeless story of courage, honor, and manifesting one’s destiny. Based on real history, this novel is historical fiction at its finest and most authentic. In West From Here, author Bill Brown explores a defining time in US history, exploring grand themes at a deeply personal level as Elias finds himself ... Read more

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Fabyan Place: Surviving Nazi Captivity

Peter Angus

The Color of War: racism and survival in Nazi captivity During WWII, Sonny and John, two mixed-race Allied soldiers have managed to keep their ethnicity hidden since they enlisted. One is captured by the Germans in Belgium, the other in Italy. If this secret is discovered during their imprisonment, the Nazis will execute them instantly. ... Read more

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Shield-Maiden: Under the Howling Moon

Melanie Karsak

From New York Times bestselling author Melanie Karsak, escape to ancient Scandinavia in this gripping retelling of the Norse Hervarar Saga. Hervor was born unloved, unwanted. Her family whispered that she was cursed, but the gods had plans for this shield-maiden. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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West From Here

William Brown

Elias James is looking to find his place in the world, regain his family’s honor, and earn the respect of his stern and demanding father—and he has just the plan to accomplish all three. Years ago, Creek Indians stole a precious heirloom entrusted to Elias’s father. If Elias can venture to the Creek Nation and ... Read more

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Journeys: The Archers of Saint Sebastian

Jeanne Roland

15-year-old Marieke is as obsessed with the archers’ guild of Saint Sebastian as everyone else in Ardennes. Here twelve of the best and most beautiful young Journeyman archers compete every year for a coveted spot on the prince’s bodyguard. But when Marieke flees to the guild for refuge, there are only two things she really ... Read more

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A Stream to Follow

Jess Wright

When WWII ends, Bruce Duncan, a battlefront surgeon, returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania with plans of opening a general practice, fly fishing in his spare time, and forgetting the past. But the ravages of his war aren’t over. Haunted by images of soldiers he tried to save, his own near-death experiences, and ... Read more

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The Munich Grl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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 uncovers a tangled web of long-buried family secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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LINCOLN’S LAWMAN

A.M. VAN DORN

THE CIVIL WAR IS LONG OVER LEAVING IN ITS WAKE THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR BELONGING TO THE AGES, BUT HIS LEGACY LIVES ON IN THE MAN THEY CALL LINCOLN’S LAWMAN. The vanguard of a new breed of marshals envisioned by the slain president, the formidable Nash Riker upholds his sworn duty on America’s newest battlefield, the ... Read more

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WILDE’ S WOMEN

A. M. VAN DORN

SIX CHILDREN…FIVE RACES…ONE MAN’S EPIC TALE OF TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY In a saga ranging far and wide from the lush Hudson River Valley to the shadowy recesses of the Antebellum South, as well as the distant shores of an uncharted and hostile desert isle off the coast of China and just about anywhere in between, ... Read more

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The Buffalo Cabin

Kari August

From the author of the award-winning The Cabin at Jackson Hole . . . Ambitious and sophisticated William Winthrop has quit Boston to enter frontier politics in the new state of Wyoming, where opportunities abound. There, William meets Blaine Wallace, a fiery and independent suffragette, living near the town of Buffalo, who he believes is ... Read more

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It Happened in Silence

Karla M Jay

An inspiring story of injustice and family loyalty set in turbulent 1920s Georgia. A mute girl leaves her Appalachian homestead to find her brother. Soon they both run afoul of the unjust laws of the time and soon are embroiled in scandals involving the women of the KKK, and baby farming. How will they escape? ... Read more

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The Tide Between Us

Olive Collins

1821 – A cargo of Irish children is deported to the cane fields of Jamaica: 1991 – Their story is uncovered: “The award-winning bestselling novel brings history to life in this mesmerizing epic” The Post $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation

Alice McVeigh

“Pitch-perfect” – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. An ingenious “take on Jane Austen’s immortal EMMA. Gold medal winner in Global Book Awards, Editors Pick (“outstanding”) on Publishers Weekly, Finalist in International Book Awards.  $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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