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.
Mrs Morphett’s Macaroons
Take a canny kitchen maid, a pioneer suffragist; an idealistic playwright, a sceptical producer, two stroppy actresses, a demanding backer and a real-life suffragette gaolbird. Mix them together and you have Mrs Morphett’s Macaroons, a trailblazing play about suffragettes that is set to light up London’s West End stage in 1905. That’s if the ingredients ... Read more
The Fires of Lilliput
Shosha was Jewish. Jakub was Catholic. They resisted the Nazis together and survived the Holocaust. Now, the Vatican is investigating Jakub for sainthood and Shosha is the last living witness to his life. The Fires of Lilliput is the story she tells. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
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 accepts her fate — until she meets a handsome Catholic soldier who makes her question everything. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Anointed: A David and Goliath Novel (The Davidic Chronicles Book 1)
Book one of the Davidic Chronicles immerses you in a young David’s world in a time of bloody war and supernatural deliverance. Witness the titanic collision between Goliath’s gods and David’s faith in Jehovah. Beautifully crafted with an air of ancient ambiance throughout, the Davidic Chronicles creates a masterful tapestry of woven threads that are ... Read more
The Shanghai Circle
TAIPAN MEETS TRIAD IN PRE-WAR SHANGHAI A taipan, a triad leader and a beautiful White Russian find their lives intertwined as Japan threatens Shanghai. It is 1936, and Shanghai, the ‘Paris of the East’ or ‘The Whore of Asia’, plays backdrop to the drama, as these characters find their lives are circling each other in ... Read more
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. An abandoned baby girl was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train, where she was placed out as a farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. A story of female triumph and perseverance. How ... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. 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 finds a tangled web of long-buried family secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir”. Philadelphia Inquirer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Desert Scorched Rose
Conaria 1964… Leaving London far behind academic Victoria Barrington embarks on the trip of a lifetime, relishing her chance to explore the previously closed desert kingdom of Conaria. But things are not the way she expected and a chance purchase triggers a chain of events that will change everything. Tadejah, the spoilt son of the ... Read more
Free: Five Ways to Seduce a Duke
The upstanding Duke of Wrexham falls for the beautiful girl next door, but there are a few problems. One, she’s running a Bohemian artists’ colony. Two, she’s hiding her secret identity as a controversial painter. Oh, and three, she’s engaged to his brother. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Ring Road
Smart and confident, Lauren Serra is impatient to move into her new home. Why wouldn’t she be? The eighteenth-century farmhouse holds over two hundred years of Ring Family history, including clues to the missing Ring ruby pendant. But Lauren wants more from the home than the mystery it promises. She hopes the house will fertilize ... Read more
HEIMAT
Matthias Schmidt left his Heimat, Neisse, Germany, in April 1929 to follow thousands of other Europeans for a better future in the United States. Reluctantly he left his mother, a girlfriend, sisters, many relatives, and friends. But he also left an intolerable situation behind. He planned to return as an American citizen, a shining example ... Read more
The Lovers (Echoes from the Past Book 1)
1665. When Elise de Lesseps is sold in marriage to Lord Edward Asher, she resolves to be an obedient and dutiful wife, until, on their wedding night, she finds out exactly what her husband has in store for her. His request leaves her feeling shocked and humiliated, but being his chattel, she has no right ... Read more
Free: The Tin Whistle
Inspired by a true story… 1854 Jacob Gusky wakes up hoping Santa has arrived. And he has… but not for Jacob, one of two Jewish boys living at the Boys’ Home of Manhattan. When a friend gifts him a tin whistle, Jacob learns the power of giving, the joy in receiving, and hears what he ... Read more
The Christmas Coat
Two days before Christmas, ornery Elliot Ebberts is tasked with school drop-off even though distracted by an important real estate transaction. In the holiday carpool chaos his extravagant, lucky coat goes missing. In a panic, he searches for it, tracing its path as it passes through the hands of good people in dire situations…$0.99 on ... Read more
Cinder Bella
She never had anything. He lost everything. Together they create a Christmas to remember. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
Pianist in a BordelloWhat would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life ... Read more
The Last Sketch
They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil? $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
Pianist in a BordelloWhat would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life ... Read more
Road to the Breaking
Nothing survived “The Breaking” unchanged; lives and fortunes, love and hate, freedom and slavery … An epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War. Captain Nathaniel Chambers has left the violent army life behind in Texas, never ... Read more
Free: The Unwanted Dead
A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire nation. The ENEMIES, the Greek Government, the Orthodox Church, and the Vatican. A NATION in mourning. ... Read more
One Must Tell The Bees
When those harrowing words ring out during a children’s entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history. One Must ... Read more
Free: The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
Along with her husband’s legacy, Helen Kazantzakis, inherits his arch enemies: The Greek State and the Church. The days after his passing, she will face insults and disrespect. Her only consolation is the loving and adventurous memories with him: Her initial dislike of Kazantzakis, his unconventional flirting, his scandalous proposal to live together in Moscow ... Read more
Standing Against The Wind (A Dying Truth Exposed, Book Two)
The tale of lineage and legacy continues with Annabelle’s escape into Indian Territory after fleeing from her cruel slave masters in Mercy, Missouri. In the wild west prairie lands of Oklahoma, she finds protection with her rescuers’ Cherokee family and has to learn how to survive hidden within the Cherokee Nation. As she learns about ... Read more
Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to ... Read more
The Girl in the Triangle
There are 740 Days left until the fire that changes industrial history forever. It’s 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York. But when an uprising of 20,000 ... Read more
Chains of Time
Amara knows what’s going to happen. Even as she prepares for her wedding, she can see him in her visions: Van Owen – the slaver who will raid her village, steal her power, and pursue her across time. He will hunt her from the shores of West Africa in 1859 to the battlefields of the ... Read more
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth and raised in a Catholic orphanage in New York City was never adopted. At the age of 13, she was sent to the Midwest on an orphan train and placed out as a housekeeper and farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she ... Read more
Sigiriya: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, Betrayal and Tragedy in the Royal Court
He rose from poverty to become a virtuous king. She was a slave girl he fell in love with. They lived in a fairytale sky-palace—Sigiriya. Base on a true story, set 1500 years ago, in an exotic orient. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Munich Girl
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after WW2, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the dangerous years of Nazi Germany, she uncovers a web of long-buried family secrets. “Hard to put down. … Harder to forget.” ... Read more
The Letter
Having survived the hell of Stalingrad and the war on the Eastern Front, Sergeant Franz Mayer found he was now a deserter. Faced with the prospect of an SS firing squad, he knew his only hope lay in returning home. Helped by an elderly couple who had lost their only son in the war he ... Read more
Bicentennial Trifecta: Patriots for the American Evolution
Armed with his camera, notepad, and ’73 VW Super Beetle, an Army journalist sets his sights on being in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and NYC, all on July 4, 1976, so as to witness how far we have come and how far we have to go. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Jessup
Jessup is a broken man, scarred physically and emotionally, by what he witnessed during World War 2, and now cleans the toilets of prisoners to make money to buy alcohol. When not arguing with his best friend, Marlow, he broods in his room and contemplates suicide as the only way to escape his pain.But when ... Read more
The Last Sketch
They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil? Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize ... Read more
Jane Digby’s Diary
Based on a true story . . . Bright, beautiful, and bold, Jane Digby led a remarkable life. Born to privilege in 1807 at Dorset, England, she soon scandalized Europe with her reckless pursuit of freedom. She sacrificed home, family, and respectability for her passions. Kings, princes, barons, brigands, lords, and sheiks were among her ... Read more
Greetings from Asbury Park
We celebrate the Greatest Generation for their courage and honor. This is how they loved. Fifteen-year-old Mariella yearns for a new life. Since the Germans arrived in Rome, food has been scarce, and danger lurks around every corner. On top of that, she’s haunted by a childhood tragedy and weighed down with the responsibility of ... Read more
Free: The Refiner of the Realm: Of Queens and Clerics
1993 Join the adventure as Mary, Gareth, and Brad’s quest to learn the truth of the Stone of Scone takes them to Edinburgh Castle, high on its windy hill. 1068 Experience Margaret’s struggles as the remnant of the English royal family, fleeing William the Conqueror, is blown onto the wild, rocky shore of Scotland. Can ... Read more
Encounters Unforeseen
The traditional literature about the history of Columbus’s voyage & first encounters with Native Americans remains focused on the European perspective. This book dramatizes these events from a bicultural perspective, fictionalizing beliefs, thoughts, & actions of the Native Americans who met Columbus side by side with those of Columbus & other Europeans, based on a ... Read more
Three Tales from Vienna
This epic saga spans a century and three generations of the Rosenthal family of Vienna, as seen through the eyes of three sisters: the prim but compassionate Alicia, the confident social butterfly that is Giselle, and the studious baby of the family, Klara. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters ... Read more
The Night Medicine
Blackfoot tribal member Dean Wolfsblood is the guardian of a centuries-old medicine pipe that makes time travel possible. Upon arrival in 1868, Dean, Badger, and Kai discover deceit, murder, buffalo hunters, and a kidnapping waiting for them as they travel across Blackfoot territory to the gold mining town of Helena, Montana. Can they survive history ... Read more
