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 Slender Thread
The outcome of World War II hangs, as Churchill says, by “a slender thread.” Only the tiny, half-starved Mediterranean island of Malta stands in Hitler’s way. The relentless strains of war threaten not only the survival of Malta but also the survival of Johnnie and Eleanor’s relationship. Will their future together be yet another casualty ... Read more
A Panther Crosses Over
A clash of civilizations, two powerful leaders, and a dramatic outcome that ripples through generations. A Panther Crosses Over is the first book of The American Trilogy series, three novels that reframe the epic legacy of the fight for the American Midwest. $9.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Flight of Ukraine Sparrow
Torn from her home and family at a young age, a Ukrainian farm girl is swept into the KGB’s notorious State School Four. Here she is taught the dark side of sexual seduction and is being trained as spy for the State. Risking it all to escape the horrors of her life in the Soviet ... Read more
Free: David: God’s Chosen Crucible
David is every man’s man, an outlaw prophet, a man of war, and a man of God. He is a ruthless warrior, an ardent lover, skilled musician, and poet-philosopher. God sees in him the heart of a lion, the tenacity of a bear, and an ever-faithful man of action. God calls an unlikely and lowly ... Read more
The Munich Girl
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
Then Like The Blind Man | ORBIE’S STORY
Feisty nine-year-old Orbie Ray hates his stepfather even more than he does mean colored kids with knives – a fact that lands him at Harlan’s Crossroads, there to spend a drought summer on his grandparent’s dirt farm while his family travels on to Florida’s sunny climes. Resentful, fearing for his naively religious mother, Orbie pines ... Read more
One Night With Finnbar
It’s no surprise Edmond Mattox demanded revenge for his loss of face; but how could Martin have known the price would be Finnbar’s innocence? Martin must choose. Is he the man who acts when evil threatens the powerless, or is he just another aristocratic prat who puts himself first? One Night With Finnbar is a ... Read more
On the Precipice of the Labyrinth
The novel takes place in the late 1930s and involves William Benning, a young American man who finishes college and has had a strong introduction to the Spanish language. Benning graduates from the University of Virginia in 1937 and has learned about what is happening in Europe in general, and Spain specifically, during that tumultuous ... Read more
Secret of the Old Tower
A family secret. Two dead bodies. The penalty for murder is death. The year is 1768. Angus MacKay returns to London after five years in the American colonies. He returns home full of hope for the future, but his lack of education soon leaves his dreams shattered. He discovers you can never go home again. ... Read more
Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Theodora: actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist. And Byzantine Empress of the Roman world. KIRKUS REVIEWS: “A meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama.” GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Les Beaux Châteaux
Inspired by a headline about French bakeries shuttering, Les Beaux Châteaux is the story of a father and son who must learn a new way forward as traditional French life evolves. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Treasure Galleons: Prequel to The Golden Age of Pyracy Series
In the Age of Sail, a captain’s son is left to confront pirates, cannibals, and an angry king after a hurricane devastates his family and their fleet carrying $400 million in treasure. The true story of 1715 Spanish shipwrecks that gave Florida its “Treasure Coast” – as told in the multi-award-winning screenplay. Full-color illustrations. Free ... Read more
A Widow of Bath Trilogy
A woman in a man’s world, fighting to survive. A mother, seeking her missing son. An avenger of murdered innocents. Against a corrupt church, arrogant nobles, biased judges and lethal assassins, what can one woman do? If she is Alyson, weaver of Bath, widow of experience, mistress of contacts to the unseen, dismissed and ignored ... Read more
Operation Teardrop
Based on events, Operation Teardrop is proof truth is often stranger than fiction. By 1944, the war has turned against Hitler’s Third Reich, and German cities lie in ruins from the constant bombing by the Allies. On every front, Allied forces are driving the Wehrmacht forces back. Inspired by the success of his terror weapons, ... Read more
Free: Lemon Sugar Series
After the Great War is over, Etta, Cali, and Lucy get handed a bitter lemon- poverty, grief, and despair. As they piece their lives together, they find strength in sisterhood. The love between them becomes the sugar that makes the lemon sweet. If you love women’s historical fiction with a strong female lead, small town ... Read more
The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
A dead midwife. His mother accused of the murder. Can Sherlock solve the case before she hangs? A sudden call back to the family estate only weeks into his first term at Eton, puts Sherlock’s nerves on high alert. When he learns his mother has been accused of murder, he’s pushed to solve the crime ... Read more
The King’s Favorite
The King’s Favorite is a mystery thriller set during one of the most spirited, scandalous, and memorable periods in English history—the Restoration—when the son of an executed king brought monarchy back to England after the repressive years of the Commonwealth. Following the coronation of Charles II came a reopening of the theaters, with the first ... Read more
The Model Spy
THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. ... Read more
Free: Beyond the Pettus Bridge
A fire rages. Children race to escape the woods being devoured by flames. A white man in a white robe is carried away on a stretcher. Claire, a young, Yankee teacher, and her new husband, Bruce, move from Detroit to Selma, Alabama in 1969 when he joins the Air Force. It doesn’t take long for ... Read more
Answering Liberty’s Call
In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her loved ones ... Read more
Free: Confidence John
A coded journal. A buried treasure. A dangerous journey. In the early 1800s, as the Spanish surrender Florida to the United States government, Emily Bisset reunites with her estranged mother Simone to solve a family mystery and seek revenge on the man who abandoned them both: Confidence John. As they make their way to ... Read more
Running with Cannibals
Four people caught within the grip of war and the greed of domination. One will die. One will find himself by learning that truth stands alone, wears no flag, and employs no spokesman. the other two will live forever, legends in the minds and hearts of the Philippine people. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Maid of Baikal
What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Army at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? MAID OF BAIKAL presents an alternative outcome to the war, vividly portraying its violence, bitterness and hardship, while telling the inspirational story of a determined young woman who perseveres in the face ... Read more
Free: After the Voyage
Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870, having survived Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. 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 that never goes away. They raise three children ... Read more
Journeys: the Archers of Saint Sebastian
15-year-old Marieke disguises herself as a boy to hide in the all-male archers’ guild of Saint Sebastian. Soon she’s vowing to help the charming Journeyman Tristan win the annual guild competitions, without ever letting him find out she’s a girl – a girl who loves him. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Born into poverty, Theodora transforms from actress to prostitute to mistress to Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. In this male dominated world, she shrewdly navigates wars, political crises, a citywide rebellion, and a world plague pandemic. “A gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building.” ~Author Kate Quinn $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train. Placed out as a farm laborer, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. How did she survive? $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Emperor’s Servant
Rome. 23 BCE. In the depths of serious illness, the Emperor Augustus calls upon Republican Lucius Sestius. To Lucius’ consternation, he is catapulted into office just at a time when a pestilence is sweeping through Italy. Thousands of people are dying and the River Tiber is riding dangerously high. But Lucius finds himself not only ... Read more
Heimat
Emigrating to the US to find a better future in America in 1929 Matthias Schmidt’s dream to return to Neisse, his Heimat, as a successful American citizen changed when he saved the life of an American diplomat in Berlin’s Bahnhof. His heroic act established a friendship with the diplomat and three other German emigrants that ... Read more
American Brush-Off
It’s 1942, and Lud Mueller is an All-American boy. He’s got it all—looks, athletic ability, popularity and the sweetest girl between Chicago and New York. Now, the only country he’s ever known has a plan to tear his life to pieces without giving him a fighting chance. Interned in the Texas desert, he and his ... Read more
Soldiers of Freedom
SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM is the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europe and the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes of William McBurney, a tank gunner in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
My Splendid Concubine
Based on a True Story. After arriving in China in 1854, Robert Hart falls in love with Ayaou, but his feelings for her sister go against the teachings of his Wesleyan-Christian upbringing. To survive he must learn how to live and think like the Chinese and soon finds himself thrust into China’s Opium Wars, where ... Read more
Free: Vinegar Hill Blues
A wounded musician shipped home from WWII finds his mother has died and his old Brooklyn neighborhood obliterated by a housing project. Always poor, he now wants to succeed as a jazz musician but he also wants money. He thinks the only path open to him is to rejoin his prewar friends and become a ... Read more
The Highlander’s Heiress: A Historical Scottish Regency Romance (Castle Brides Book 2)
She’s a strong-willed heiress. He’s a powerful lord with a secret. Tempers and passion collide. Yvette Stapleton has no need for a husband. Ever. Possessed of a fortune, she’s determined to forge her own future without matrimony’s confining bonds. Besides, she’s yet to meet a man who doesn’t find her wealth more alluring than her. ... Read more
Free: The Pink Mutiny
She left London intent on making a difference. Caught up in the Indian Rebellion, will Amelia’s ambitions survive a deadly conflict? Lost and hunted in a land torn apart by discord, politics, and feminine oppression, she’s plunged into a fight that could reinvent her entire identity. Desperate for money, Amelia hides in plain sight by ... Read more
The Unnamed Girl
In the fog of battle, Confederate Private Woody Woodard stumbles across a gold-cased ambrotype of a little girl near the body of a dead Union soldier. Somehow she becomes his only respite from the nighttime demons of war that torture him. He must find her. An award-winning historical novel, The Unnamed Girl is the saga ... Read more
Free: The Devil’s Garden
Read Chuck Driskell’s newest historical thriller, The Devil’s Garden, a sweeping saga following a team of women & men in WWII Occupied France. The team are known as Les Invalides—a squad hell bent on punishing sexual predators operating under the fog of war. Free 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 Consequence of Anna: An Epic Family Saga About Love, Friendship, Obsession, and Madness
“SHAMED BE THE WOMAN WHO ALLOWETH SUCH A SIN.” – The Amazon #1 Bestseller, inspired by a true story . . . Two cousins share a deep, sisterly love for each other. And a man. One of them will be driven into madness. It’s the year 1930, and Anna May Shahan’s world is about to ... Read more
Island Queen
“Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive…by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”–The New York Times A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful ... Read more
