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.
The Little Cottage in the Pines
In a delightful holiday story that stretches through eras, generations and families, the author cleverly connects historically based stories into one continuing tale built around a snow globe that comes to be passed along. Through it, the reader discovers a window into the lives and souls of those who once owned the precious item and ... Read more
Martha’s Cove
The only survivor of a 1800s shipwreck, Polly was barely old enough to speak when she was rescued off Marthas Cove, Nova Scotia. Her adoptive family named her after the cove, forbidding her speaking of her former life. A hard-scrabble life awaits her, saved only by her new brother, Joseph. Meanwhile, her grandfather, who had ... Read more
The Tide Between Us
1821 – A cargo of Irish children is deported to the cane fields of Jamaica: 1991 – Their story is uncovered: “Award-winning & bestselling author brings real history to life with this mesmerizing novel spanning 170 years and 5 generations, The Times. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
England’s Martyr
1010 AD: England is dying, its people brutalized and its lands ravaged after wave after wave of Norse invaders. King Ethelred does little but sit on his throne, haunted by his troubled past and easy prey for his manipulative advisors, leaving his subjects to fend for themselves. Unwilling to stand by and do nothing, a ... Read more
Simon Son Of Star
When one man raises his sword against the world biggest empire in a quest against all odds to free his people, a battle that will be written on the pages of history rages on. This heroic 2000 year old story follows Son of Star leader of the second rebellion through the fierce battles and the ... Read more
Jane Digby’s Diary
How many of us live the life of our choosing? Meet one woman who did – Jane Digby. Jane Digbys Diary chronicles the life of one of 19th century’s most remarkable and scandalous women. Come join Jane on her path to a life well-lived. $0.99 each on Kindle. Learn More... Read more
The Munich Girl
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 family secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Hair of the Dog
Set in Capone’s Prohibition Chicago in 1929, Gregory Davenport is given two special gifts from the spirit of his murdered cousin. The first allows him to channel the dead. The second provides a single trip back in time. Cousin Deanie wants revenge on his murderers, while Gregory wants to right injustices and protect his family ... Read more
Free: Way of the Viper: The Samurai Cowboys – Book Two
Way of the Viper Cade Wilson is a troubled man. The shadows of his past are haunting him, and he knows he must make things right––but he feels so far away from where he started and no closer to where his heart belongs. As Viper, he was one of three elite warriors trained by a ... Read more
Free: When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story
“A surprisingly hopeful look at how betrayal, loss, and guilt can change the lives of a community and shape history” –Booklife This fact-based historical novel takes us beyond the witch trials to tell a larger story of what happened in Salem Village. In 1692, Ann Putnam is a central figure in the trials that bring ... Read more
Iron Scars : A Novel of the Spartan Empire
WHAT IF SPARTA RULED AN EMPIRE? In this action-packed, alternate-history fantasy, the Spartans wage war in an attempt to suppress a rebellion that has spread to every corner of their empire. Meanwhile, beyond the empire’s reach, powerful yagar warriors live divided. But when Spartans kidnap a certain female for the Emperor, one yagar sets out ... 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 Benefactor, ... Read more
Free: Moonlight Runner
In 1920, rum running could make a man rich. It could also get him dead. Garrett O’Donnell was willing to take the risk. Bentley Chance is a retired lieutenant with over thirty years at a mid-size Washington police department. His assignments included patrol, traffic, street crimes, S.W.A.T. and narcotics followed by commands in every division ... Read more
Free: Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Take a deep dive into Darcy’s point of view!!! Prizewinning historical fiction – not pure romance – also, a starred Editor’s Pick on PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. (“Should Elizabeth Bennet refuse me again, I shall have to wed – as I swore I never would – for dynasty alone. For I shall only ever love Elizabeth Bennet.” ... 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 Wotto, 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
Lost Child
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
Nefertiti’s Sister
A clutch of royal women, a life-saving scheme plunges them into a conspiracy far over their heads but also leaves their mark forever on history. Along the way we learn every woman has a story – murder, tragic death, forced marriage, women loving women in a society with no sexual taboos. Add innovative ideas about ... Read more
The Munich Girl
What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous Nazi world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and uncovers a tangled web of family secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Avery’s Ghost
When Evelyn is accidentally poisoned, her only hope is to sign the curious contract of Hart’s Circus— the same place her brother, Avery, vanished before her birth. She investigates, but turns up questions no carnie will answer… and infuriates the tempestuous Manager Hart. Undeterred, she’ll cajole and blackmail her way to the truth. Perfect for ... Read more
Carry That Weight: The Story of the Beatles
“Carry That Weight, The story of the Beatles” is not only an engrossing read for Beatles fans, but it’s also an important piece of music history. The book provides a new perspective on the band’s journey, giving readers a deeper understanding of the personal dynamics and creative forces that drove the Beatles to become one ... Read more
Valentine George: An Ordinary Man, Who Lived Through Extraordinary Times. A Historical Family Saga (Ancestors Book 1)
VALENTINE GEORGE is the first in my ANCESTORS series. Although fiction, they are based on the lives of real people. In this novel we follow the story of Valentine George, an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times. From his beginning, in the slums of London during Victorian times, through World Wars One and Two, ... Read more
The Grass Sweeper God
Pick truth over a pretty lie: Smiley Hanlon lives day-to-day in a 1950s Coal Camp town while tethered to the wrong body… $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Legend Is Born
This is a pre-prequel to the series Legends of Lainjin. Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Lainjin must now travel to Nadik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home to Wotto. But will she entice a ... Read more
The Bringer of Happiness
From the award-winning writer and director of The Women’s Jail Project and author of Dancing the Labyrinth, comes an evocative time-travelling tale that unashamedly merges renowned historical characters and events into a spellbinding story of destiny. “I should have assumed with parents known to the world as Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, I would be ... Read more
Rampage at Calico Rock
Trying to move forward into a new future is not always easy when you live in North Central Arkansas following the Civil War… Jonathan came to Arkansas to raise his young son with hopes of escaping the ravages of a divided nation. The North and the South have been at war for what feels like ... Read more
Glass Ornament Christmas
It is 1896, and this Christmastide is extra special for glass blower Shayla Toselli in Canterbury Corner, England. The town square will have an electrically lit tree, and she has been commissioned to create delicate glass ornaments for the new Duke’s Christmas Eve ball. When former soldier Adam Preston finds himself in the Toselli workshop, ... Read more
Storykeeper
The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando de Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood plains of eastern Arkansas. Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition ... Read more
Free: Magnus Maximus
Real hero, true events: In 367 AD, an evil genius gets 5 armies to invade Britain, killing 100,000 Britons in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the man sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus is Latin for Maximum Great – that’s his name – and he’ll become Roman emperor in 383 AD. Enjoy the ... Read more
A Captive in Algiers
In the year preceding the French Revolution, an orphan boy named Ettore finds himself at a crossroads. Seeking to add coins to his hidden strongboxes, he sets sail on the Tyrrhenian Sea, embarking on an exhilarating journey that will test his wit, resilience, and survival skills. But little does he know that the stormy seas ... Read more
The Other Side of the Hayfields
Young John Bailey struggles with taking over his father’s failing farm while neighboring plantation owners bask in prosperity. He seeks a better future but finds only a nation torn apart as the clouds of civil war rise on the horizon. Secretly befriending a slave girl and her brother, he grapples to understand the greed and ... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. 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. ... Read more
The Man from Tuskegee
Shot down behind enemy lines in Northern Italy, Tuskegee Airman Bob Dale is fighting for survival when a nun and partisan lead him to safety at an orphanage. He arrives just as Nazi SS troops are closing in on seven little Jewish children hidden there. Now Bob’s fight takes on a mission larger than his ... Read more
Memories of Then
Set in Sydney, Australia, Memories of Then dances between present day and the summer of ’64, when Elijah Samuels and Audrey Hughes met and fell in love. Decades later, troubled Elijah is informed that Audrey is in a coma, her health declining. He visits her in palliative care, determined to pay his respects and say ... Read more
Free: Big Man Judas: Bob Ford and Jesse James
This tale of Historical Fiction begins with Jesse James, but it doesn’t end there. Bob Ford’s split-second decisions bring consequences greater than he could ever have imagined. Read Big Man Judas free June 19 – 23, 2023! Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Cookie Cutter Legacy
From the time of Queen Elizabeth I, a woman in each generation of the Van Demere family has added a cookie cutter to the collection, and Henrietta has a bounden duty to pass along the stories. Each cookie cutter’s vignette tells a story of American history, including WWII spies and the Revolutionary War, the Civil ... 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 Wotto, 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
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 1915, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. At age 12, they sent her on an Orphan train to the Midwest. How did she survive in a frightening new world and build her life? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Under the Emerald Sky: A tale of love and betrayal in 19th century Ireland (The Irish Fortune Series Book 1)
“Under the Emerald Sky reaches another level in storytelling, the kind where the characters remain with you long after you have closed the book.” – The Historical Fiction Company It’s 1843 and the Englishman Quinton Williams has come to Ireland to oversee the running of his father’s ailing estate and escape his painful past. There ... Read more
The Healer’s Miraculous Discovery
Thirteen-year-old Stevie Katz likes to spend his days working in the family’s store with his dad when he’s not in school. As he’s stocking shelves, he finds a mysterious object hidden in an unlikely place. He soon finds out that the object gives him the ability to heal the sick and wounded. Soon, his special ... Read more
Heirs of the Tide
Journey to the Holy Land at the dawn of the Renaissance for a thrilling adventure tale. When their father is abducted by a vicious crime lord, Yonatan and Aaron Déulocresca embark on an odyssey to retrieve a lost cache of family assets to pay the ransom. With the help of a fearless crew of Sephardic ... Read more
