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.
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
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
Free: BLOOD OF ROSES
Richard Duke of York lies dead on the battlefield, lured to his death by a false Christmas truce. The House of York has fallen…but not for long. The Lancastrian army of Margaret of Anjou has reaped the whirlwind. Edward of March, Richard’s heir, is coming after them, tall, handsome, and a fearsome warrior…and he wants ... Read more
Breaking Point
1940, World War II. The Nazis have crushed Europe, and Hitler launches a massive aerial assault with the Luftwaffe against the heavily outnumbered British RAF. The fate of civilization teeters in the balance. Spitfire pilot Johnnie, and Eleanor, a brilliant Fighter Command mathematician confront danger together in this brilliantly written novel. $0.99 on Kindle.... 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. history $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Reborn Prince (Mages in the Mundane Book 1)
He was a prince, forced into a new life as a pauper. Luc, a poor but proud man in 1775 Paris, is confused by his dreams of gilded ballrooms and unknown people in lace and jewels. And, the fact that most of his life is missing. Everything before the past two years is a hazy ... Read more
One Night With Finnbar
It’s no surprise that Edmond Mattox is demanding payback for his loss of face, but how could Martin have known the price would be Finnbar’s innocence? Martin has to choose. Is he the man who steps into the breach when evil threatens the powerless, or is he just another aristocratic prat who puts his own ... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
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 ... Read more
The Seer
It’s February 1942. War grips the world. Asian hate runs rampant, and New Orleans is a dangerous place for Chinese-English scientist Thomas Ling as he collides with self-proclaimed psychic Beatrix Patterson. She’s a good liar with an excellent memory, which in truth is her only gift—well, that and conning the well-heeled out of their money ... Read more
Free: New Hope Series
Each of the four books of the New Hope Series tells the story of an exceptional woman from one small town – the flourishing railroad town of New Hope, Nebraska. Like the town and its citizens, these four women are bright, industrious, determined, and open to change, and each woman has her own unique story ... Read more
Melanie: A Tale of Wonder
Aaron Jones, an elderly gentleman obviously down on his luck and badly in need of a shower, enters a talent contest to use the prize money to help a ten-year-old girl, Melanie, whose father is dying. During the performance, the audience begins to realize his real identity. Critics say this story is “The sweetest and ... Read more
Free: The Glorious Companions Series
From Book 1: First in the “Glorious Companions” series of historical romance adventures! For fans of Outlander, Ahab’s Wife and The Red Tent. The epic saga of kings, queens, angels, adventure and eternal love. Join the heroes of old, and be transported into a land of danger and romance! When eighteen-year-old Kenana is sold into ... Read more
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
