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.

Free: The Missing Vizier

William Mesusan

The Missing Vizier weaves fact with fiction in a tale of mystery, urgency, and personal sacrifice set against a backdrop of historical intrigue in Tenth Century Islamic Spain during a little known time in history when Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a harmonious society based upon religious tolerance and enlightened self-interested. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Weight of Ash and Prayer

Ashley Broussard

In The Weight of Ash and Prayer, a woman in 2003 unearths a Civil War–era secret buried in her South Louisiana bloodline. Told across generations, this lyrical novel explores forbidden love, inherited silence, and the price of choosing your own name. $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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The Northern Pacific Railroad (Jubilee Walker Book 3)

Tim Piper

n 1872, six hundred miles between Bismarck and Bozeman remain to be surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad. But Sitting Bull is gathering strength to resist this incursion into the tribes’ hunting grounds. Citizens and politicians question the need for the rail line and doubt that it can ever be guaranteed safe from Indian raids. ... Read more

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Noah Rising: A Novel

Harry Slack

Following an underdog orphan’s journey to becoming an industrious CEO, Noah Rising is a tender story about an unexpected rise to the top. Harry Slack’s second novel illustrates the lengths one will go to live a better life—and finally gives us a protagonist at the top worth rooting for. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Deluded By the Devil: A Tale of Love and Survival in Colonial America

S.J. Walker

From the icy depths of New England’s frontier to the fiery accusations of Salem, one man’s life is torn apart by fear and suspicion. Meet Symon Freeman, the son of Quaker immigrants, who has faced the endless challenges of the harsh wilderness and religious persecution. But as witchcraft hysteria grips the small town of Andover, ... Read more

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Free: Falcon Feather of Lone Mountain: A Vinlandian Tale

James Fisher

Falcon Feather lives in that other timeline where North America is known as Vinlandia, and the United States does not exist as far as she knows, that is, until she meets the man from Nowhere in 1980. Follow our courageous heroine as she comes to our timeline in 1985, bringing a priceless gift that will ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Hitler’s wife. Fifty years after the war, she discovers just what family secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors

Grace R. B.

Journey Through the Decades, One Story at a Time. Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors is a celebration of the power of stories to touch hearts and change lives. Written with care, this collection is a perfect blend of nostalgia and wisdom. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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It Happened in Silence

Karla M. Jay

Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It’s Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, ... Read more

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Armored Hours

Stephanie Hansen

Cable Girls meets Peaky Blinders meets Titanic The girls had forged a bond together like iron that could not be broken. Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian were on the brink of making history with their powerful feminist movement, but then they suddenly disappeared without a trace. Alexander was a desperate bootlegger who was willing to ... Read more

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Maria and the Russian Soldier

Mike Kerr

When celebrated author and lecturer Maria Kovalenko receives an invitation to speak at a charity function in Chicago from Leonid Kozlov, whom she hasn’t seen since he abandoned her 4 years ago, the past grips her. Leonid is now a wealthy man and a criminal boss. She shouldn’t go. She has to see him. Their ... Read more

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Matt Bannister: Books 1-9

Ken Pratt

Fifteen years ago, Matt Bannister ran away from the town of Willow Falls. Now a famed U.S. Deputy Marshal, he’s coming back home. But all too quickly, he realizes that old feuds unsettled never die—and he must confront his painful past. As the tempest of the past collides with the present, Matt encounters religious persecution, ... Read more

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Free: The Delilah Enigma

Donald de Brier

THE DELILAH ENIGMA follows Lt. Sarah Leach, an MI6 British naval officer, and Robert Johnston, her OSS counterpart in London, as they team up to trade secrets and sex while gathering intelligence for the Allied war effort. When an SS patrol captures Sarah working with the French Resistance in Normandy, Robert partners with associates at ... Read more

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Free: Keystone P.D.

Robert Ambros

How exactly did the Keystone Cops achieve national comedic infamy? Before the slapstick films, Rick Darrow (The Big Gun) and his brothers ran Keystone Oil, the Keystone Gazette, and Keystone, Ohio’s brothels and speakeasies. All seemed to chug along until ignoring reality led to disastrous events. A prequel that reflects timeless Keystone chaos. Free on ... Read more

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Free: Sketches from the Periphery: A Novel

MP Summers

Darfur, 2006: There was not much room in the tent. There was less room on the cot. She lay, intertwined with Alex, staring dreamily as light wisps of sand sifted in front of the lamp. Alexander Barr stands on the edge of society. Humanity, devoid of civilization, is bared before him, raw and visceral. Sketches ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Hitler’s wife. Fifty years after the war, she discovers just what family secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story

Brenda Murphy

In this Irish American story, the voyage across the Atlantic after the Great Hunger proves just the beginning for two young people facing the challenges of a new life. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage ... Read more

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FAR AWAY HOME, an Historical Novel of the American West: Aislynn’s Story- Book 1

Susan Denning

With over 200,000 books sold, 2600 5 star Amazon reader reviews/ratings, and over 5000 Goodreads reader ratings, FAR AWAY HOME has ranked as a bestseller in U.S. Historical Fiction, Historical Romance American, and Historical Irish Fiction. In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live ... Read more

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Sword Brethren

Jon Byrne

1242. After being wounded in the Battle on the Ice, Richard Fitz Simon becomes a prisoner of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Alexander, intrigued by his captive’s story, instructs his scholar to assist Richard in writing about his life. Richard’s chronicle begins in 1203, when his training to be a knight is disrupted by treachery. ... Read more

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Free: Deluded By the Devil: A Tale of Love and Survival in Colonial America

S.J. Walker

From the icy depths of New England’s frontier to the fiery accusations of Salem, one man’s life is torn apart by fear and suspicion. Meet Symon Freeman, the son of Quaker immigrants, who has faced the endless challenges of the harsh wilderness and religious persecution. But as witchcraft hysteria grips the small town of Andover, ... Read more

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Escape to Hair of the Dog: Hair of the Dog Series Book 3

Jean Luntz

Gregory Davenport’s powers seem to be expanding — this time all the way to the future When Gregory and Irene’s great, great grandson Sean reaches out from the future to beg for their help finding a kidnapped baby, the two are thrown into a wild search. Without the baby, the entire family’s existence will be ... Read more

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The Human Trial

Audrey Gale

DR. RANDALL ARCHER IS A MISFIT …in the brutal blue-collar home where he grew up. …as a sixteen-year-old escaping to college, then medical school, on a full scholarship to Harvard. …in the highest echelons of Boston society, where the woman he marries and the blueblood research partner with whom he shares his laboratory belong. Even ... Read more

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Discovery in the Desert

Tom Thiele

So you think that being a “good person” is a free ticket to heaven? That is exactly what NASA’s, David Hart, thinks. That is, until he meets Jesus Christ face to face! David is on a top-secrect NASA team assigned to harness a new, cutting-edge technology for the organization—Time Travel. When the project’s progress hits ... Read more

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Lily of the Valley

Vilma Di Nardo

Discover the #1 Bestseller on Amazon and step into a world of sex, violence, murder and deception as Anna Goldberg, a seventeen-year-old German Jew becomes embroiled in a dangerous game while hiding from the Nazis in plain sight. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Munich Girl: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast War

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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 the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a ... Read more

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MAKAHA

Brandon Fredrick

Archaeologists make an exciting discovery during the ongoing excavations in Pompeii Italy. The earliest known New Testament writings buried almost two thousand years ago when Vesuvius erupted. Verifiable texts that could bring revolutionary changes to the world’s secular, religious, and political paradigms. Stolen from Italian authorities a worldwide hunt that started in Amsterdam ends in ... Read more

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Damned Yankees

Ray Deptula

Those who fight their nation’s wars are typically those least able to avoid it. The world was, is now, and always will be a complicated and volatile place filled with those whose self-interests supersede more noble aspirations. If history has taught us anything, it is that times may change, but human nature does not. The ... Read more

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The Lost Page: An Archaeological Thriller

Joe Edd Morris

A well-paced, dual-timeline novel that spans centuries, connecting the perilous journey of John Mark during the Roman siege of Jerusalem to a modern-day search for the original scroll of the Gospel of Mark he left behind. Joe Edd Morris uses richly detailed historical settings while presenting compelling characters driven by their pursuit of truth. $1.99 ... Read more

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Free: Rainbow’s End: 20th Anniversary Edition

Bob Adamov

A Confederate raiding party from Canada commandeers a Lake Erie ferry boat in Put-in-Bay and plans to free 2,000 Confederate prisoners on nearby Johnson Island while a spy schemes to destroy the Union gunboat in Sandusky Bay. The raid is complicated by a seedy French-Canadian, a mysterious trunk and a body found on Rattlesnake Island ... Read more

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Chasing Eleanor

Kerry Chaput

Newly orphaned Magnolia Parker must protect her sick little brothers, but when the authorities send the boys to an unknown orphan asylum, Magnolia calls on her unwavering grit to bring them home. Magnolia sets out on a cross-country quest, as she has a secret weapon: a promise from Eleanor Roosevelt, the most famous woman in ... Read more

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And Union No More

Stan Haynes

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act creates a path for slavery to expand. Northerners and southerners rush settlers to the Kansas Territory, seeking to gain the majority. Guerrilla warfare results. Fictional characters interact with historical figures (including abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln), as the United States moves closer to civil war. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Murder on Allen Street

Carol Polcovar

Time: the late nineteenth century. Place: the city of New York, a mecca for the ambitious and the corrupt where the poor barely survive on the wages for their fourteen-hour work day. Crime is at its highest, higher than it will be in all of the city’s history. Nevertheless, the burgeoning city is alive with ... Read more

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NIGHTFLYERS# THE GILDED DOOM PART 1

A.M. Van Dorn

When an old safe is plucked from the sea off Texas, secrets of over a century will be revealed unearthing the story of the desperate race by the most unique team in old west to stop a deadly threat. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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And Tyler No More

Stan Haynes

Kill President John Tyler? What if one death could stop the growth of slavery? Filled with the political intrigue of the 1840s, along with a national tragedy, “And Tyler No More” explores the battle between morality and legality, between loyalty and betrayal, and confirms that dysfunction in Washington is not a modern American phenomenon. $0.99 ... Read more

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Free: Drastic Measures

Bobby Hutchinson

ER doctor Alexandra Ross thrives on adrenaline, but her husband’s secretive undercover work casts shadows over their love. A forced move to a quiet, yet perilous town challenges her to trade her passion for a strained hope of salvaging their bond. As danger closes in, Alexandra must confront the truth: can love survive when trust ... Read more

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Romancing the Italian Duke

Dawn Mallory

Darkly handsome, charming, and with a smile as warm as the Italian sun Lady Elisabeth has scandalized her family. She is sent away to live with her aunt in Kent. Soon, she finds herself in love with the scandalous Italian Duke of San Marco. As soon as she sees him, her heart melts at a ... Read more

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Free: THIS WAY TO THE LIGHT

Lawrence J. Epstein

Daniel Summerhill gets up one day and walks out of his college class. This novel takes place in the chaotic year of 1970 in Greenwich Village. Daniel is confused. He has to face the draft, angry parents, newly-liberated girlfriends, and total uncertainty about his future. Carefully, he decides to explore being a writer. He gets ... 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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The Reluctant Pioneer: Inspired by a True Story

Julie McDonald Zander

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and ... Read more

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