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.

Faraday: The Complete Epic Western Adventure Series

Robert Vaughan

The race is on to span the continent with steel rails, and someone is willing to do anything to stop it even if it means spilling rivers of innocent blood. Saddle up for this heart-pounding railroad adventure filled with danger, intrigue, and high-stakes action today! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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WAR BONDS

Pamela Norsworthy

What lengths will a prisoner of war go what sacred boundaries will he breach and what dangerous liaisons will he consummate for the chance to gain freedom? Conscripted into the British army at the dawn of World War Two, Lieutenant Gordon Clarke finds himself at a deadly moral crossroads inWar Bonds. His treacherous decisions could ... Read more

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Free: If Cotton Could Talk

Alvin Hayes

This gripping journey of a young girl’s fight for freedom in the pre-Civil War South will leave you on the edge of your seat. Set in 1850, the novel tells the story of Bertha, a young girl taught to read despite being banned and punishable by whipping or even death. She uses her newfound skills ... Read more

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Ariadne’s Crown

Meadoe Hora

Killing the Minotaur is only half the story As heir to the throne in ancient Crete, Ariadne feels like a poor substitute for her heroic brother. Shes wild, where he was brave. Impulsive, where he was noble. Restless, where he was steady. Things get complicated when a handsome, arrogant warrior arrives with the tribute from ... Read more

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Free: Baron & Brannigan, Book 1, Song and Dance

Edward Farber

Slip Back to the 1890s and join young and handsome Billy Brannigan and his younger pal, Danny Baron, as they set out to find fame, fortune and romance as entertainers. On the road to success, they travel from Doc Nobles medicine show to a minstrel show and finally to the gas-lit stages of old New ... Read more

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The Chaney Brothers: The Complete Western Adventure Series

Robert Vaughan

New York Times Bestselling Author Robert Vaughan combines epic adventure and the search for truth and justice in an oftentimes lawless land, available for the first time in a complete and unabridged collection. Lance and Buck Chaney have been fighting on opposite sides of the war until they are brought together by a shipment of ... Read more

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Betrayal on Beltane

Carol Amorosi

Born into the warrior elite, Jannon showed great promise as a fighter. But that life was not for him. Despite his father’s intentions, he fostered with the Master Bronzesmith. When a dead man is found in the smithy, his father demands he return home. Can Jannon solve the murder and save his tribe? What happens ... Read more

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Surviving Gen X

Jo Szewczyk

Dive into the kaleidoscopic streets of 1990s Las Vegas with Surviving GenX. Amidst the flickering neon lights and the haunting echoes of slot machines, we follow an unnamed protagonist and a battered housewife, both seeking an escape from their tormented pasts. As they wade through the city’s seedy underbelly, they find an unexpected refuge in ... Read more

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Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams

Erin Jamieson

The enthralling story of three unforgettable young adults living on the cusp of great change in early 20th-century Mongolia. A captivating, beautiful saga from debut novelist Erin Jamies on about having dreams, finding love, and learning to survive in a harsh, ever-changing place. In the winter of 1917, Bolormaa is introduced to the man she ... Read more

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Buckskin Chronicles: The Complete Western Series

B.N. Rundell

BESTSELLING AUTHOR B.N. RUNDELL DRAWS YOU INTO THE HEART OF THE OLD WEST. Ride into a historical western landscape with an array of characters who must overcome unimaginable obstacles in order to prove they have what it takes to survive in the Old West and determine what fate lies before them. The journey begins when ... Read more

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The Committee Will Kill You Now: A Novel

JL Lycette

The gripping new book from the author of The Algorithm Will See You Now. Based on the true-life rationing of kidney dialysis in 1960s America, a medical intern in 1992 Seattle tries to leave his painful past behind, only to uncover a shocking truth of thirty years prior and the lasting, generational harm of hidden ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her fathers war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did that her mother and Hitlers mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Annas. Plunged into ... Read more

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Knight on Time

Randy Batten

Sir Donnavinne of Tripoli had fought his way through the holy land and lived through some of the most brutal battles of the Second Crusade, but none of that prepared him for the strange place he now found himself. Nothing appeared as it should in this world since his chance encounter with the powerful, ancient, ... Read more

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The Shanghai Circle

Tony Henderson

Shanghai,1936. War looms, and a taipan, a triad leader, and a beautiful Russian girl find their lives treacherously entwined. Davina, a feisty young woman, must help steer the family trading house through the threat of invasion, the rise of communism and a deadly typhoon. Unbeknown to her, another danger lurks in the shadows. As heir ... Read more

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Atlantis Pyramids Floods

Dennis Brooks

Platos Atlantis is a true story! Now you can learn where it was located, how it was destroyed, and when it happened. This book also shows the connection between the pyramids in Mexico and those in Egypt. It shows that Noahs Great Flood is a periodic event where the Atlantic Ocean floods the Mediterranean Basin. ... Read more

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Hobbadehoy Rising

Max Willi Fischer

Its 1854, and seventeen-year-old orphan, Pencil, yearns for more control of his life. Viewed as a hobbadehoyone in a state of limbo between boyhood and manhoodby his adult, criminal mentors, hes a field general for a pack of juvenile street rats in Lower Manhattan. Unexpectedly shipped out to Ohio, he finds a divided nation several ... Read more

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Tinsmith 1865

Sara Dahmen

Marie Kotlarczyk, heads to the Dakota Territory with her father and brothers, with the promise of a thriving business–but the frontier is anything but welcoming. When her brothers join the Army and her father’s health declines, Marie has only one option–take up the family tinsmith trade, a risky move in a time when women’s roles ... Read more

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Beneath The Wayside Cross

Tony Varnis

In the summer of 1944, the Red Army began its liberation of the Baltic States. Like the other nations of Eastern Europe, the Baltics knew that in the Soviet lexicon liberation was a euphemism for occupation. Following in the wake of the army, the conscription gangs arrived and began gathering up young men to be ... Read more

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The Deseret Reckoning

Matthew Huffman

“This irresistible novel manages the curious trick of making the reader want to stand up and cheer… A transformative tale of personal reinvention from a masterful storyteller.” – Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Star) “… a thoughtful but well-paced adventure… raising the stakes, right till the end. This novel is as much a journey of self discovery ... 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 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

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The Model Spy

Maryka Biaggio

Enter the glamorous yet perilous world of model-turned spy Toto Koopman in Mussolini’s World War II Italy. THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the ... Read more

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The Lady and the Minstrel

Joyce DiPastena

A lowborn minstrel with a dangerous past. A highborn lady with a scandalous inheritance. Their forbidden love may cost them everything. In 13th century England, Robert Marcel makes a daring escape from his life as a serf and takes up the trade of a minstrel. If he can evade capture for a year and a ... Read more

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Storykeeper

Daniel Smith

A vivid epic (Kirkus Reviews) based on historic documents, this award-winning novel is told from the perspective of the ancient people of the Mississippi River Valley. They survived America’s deadliest invasion when Hernando De Soto and 350 Spanish conquistadors arrived in June, 1541. A century later, Manaha empowered by a dream and against the taboos ... Read more

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Joshua and the Chosen People

Ben Garrido

Joshua has inherited leadership of the Israelites and the divine imperative to provide them a homeland entirely their own. Before him, Jericho and the nations of Canaan glimmer with arms, wealth and impure blood. Can the soft-hearted Joshua clean away the pagans? Can his virtue persevere in the face of Israel’s fearsome destiny? Can the ... Read more

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Delicatus

S.P. Somtow

The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow’s Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history’s wildest characters. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from “puer ... Read more

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Riding With Forrest

L. E. Denton

Riding off to war with the idealism of youth, John Barrett soon finds himself under the command of the most audacious, bold and fearless cavalry commander of the Civil War. Nathan Bedford Forrest terrified his enemies but endeared himself to those who fought with him. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

What family secrets is a portrait of Hitler’s mistress 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. ” “Hard to put down. Harder to forget.” The Stellar Review ... Read more

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Dragon Bones

Robert Henricks

When Captain Shuri Ikaki of the Japanese army took possession of China’s greatest artifact for transport to Japan he had no idea what twisted path he must follow to complete his mission. Not until nearly 80 years later do modern day historians pick up the trail for the missing treasure. $2.99 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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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 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

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My Mother’s Friend 

Sally Jameson Bond

The year is 1944 Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mothers death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is ... Read more

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The Bowman Boys

D.W. Ulsterman

A father and his four sons fight to survive and thrive during the time of Prohibition. The Bowman Boys is a raucous mix of action, mystery, and romance. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Glass Ornament Christmas

Cheryl A. Hunter

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 Dukes Christmas Eve ball. When former soldier Adam Preston finds himself in the Toselli workshop, ... Read more

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The Deseret Reckoning

Matthew Huffman

“This irresistible novel manages the curious trick of making the reader want to stand up and cheer… A transformative tale of personal reinvention from a masterful storyteller.” – Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Star) “… a thoughtful but well-paced adventure… raising the stakes, right till the end. This novel is as much a journey of self discovery ... Read more

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Winter’s Reckoning

Adele Holmes

Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has no use for ideas like “separation of the races” or “men as the superior sex.” There are many in her dying Southern Appalachian town who are upset by her socially progressive views, but for years—partly due to her late husband’s still-powerful influence, and partly due to her skill as a healer ... Read more

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The Little Cottage in the Pines

Jerry Jamison

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

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Martha’s Cove

Deb Graham

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

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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: “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

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England’s Martyr

Alfred Read

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

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Simon Son Of Star

Ronen Tregerman

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

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