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.

Long Road To Abilene: The Western Adventures of Cade McCall

Robert Vaughan

A classic hero’s journey, a western adventure that exemplifies the struggles, the defeats, and the victories that personify the history of the American West. After surviving the bloody battle of Franklin and the hell of a Yankee prison camp, Cade McCall comes home to the woman he loves only to find that she, believing him ... Read more

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Dimity Delight: Horace Hall (Book One)

Kate Hamilton

Regency romance by best selling author Kate Hamilton. When Lady Serena finds herself penniless her idea to turn governess goes awry. Spies, intrigue and romance in this traditional Regency novel will keep you turning pages. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Ismeni

A mysterious beauty, a destiny set in the stars. Born under an inauspicious sign, young Ismeni is feared by her own people. A story of love, passion, and twists of fate through the eyes of the woman who will one day give birth to the legendary Queen of Sheba. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Captive Princess

J.P.. Reedman

Princess. Marriage Prize. Prisoner. Eleanor of Brittany is sent to live in the household of her esteemed grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and brought up expecting to be the bride of a powerful prince. But when the marriage proposed for her as part of Richard Lionheart’s ransom falls through and King Richard dies a few years ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

45 The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg is about to discover the secrets hidden in a portrait of Hitler’s wife. They’ll challenge her every belief about right and wrong, as they reveal the enduring legacies of love that always outlast war. “Hard to put down . . . harder to forget.” ... Read more

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Madame Presidentess

Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books. This is the story of Victoria Woodhull, woman who was ahead of her time, who dared to speak out and challenge the ... Read more

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Michal’s Destiny

Roberta Kagan

For a young girl growing up in a traditional Jewish settlement in Siberia in 1919, an arranged marriage was a fact of life. And, Michal’s father had just arranged such a marriage for her; marriage to a man she has never met and about whom she knows nothing at all. Michal is understandably terrified. On ... Read more

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Free: Dear Comrade Novak

Silvia Hildebrandt

The Man in the High Castle meets Ben Hur – The friendship between Red Army soldier Tiberius and gay secret agent Attila gets tested as the bloody revolution of 1989 frees the people of communist Romania.  Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Ariadne

A young priestess flees from Crete to Egypt and finally Canaan as the Bronze Age world collapses around her. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Mistress of the Maze

J.P. Reedman

Rosamund Clifford, one of the most famous royal mistresses of all time—concubine to Henry II, the first Plantagenet King. A young maiden ruled by a grasping father who will stop at nothing to promote his own cause with the King…even using his daughter’s beautiful face and enticing body to gain high favour. A fearful girl ... Read more

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The Welsh Guardsman

Ann Brough

After growing up in poverty, Dorothy can finally choose a life of luxury with her father who had been little more than a memory to her. As war threatens to plunge her world into chaos, a chance encounter with a dashing soldier could change everything once again. Torn between loyalty to her father and the ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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 Third Reich, she uncovers long-buried secrets to reveal the legacies of love that always outlast war. $0.99 ... Read more

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Dear Comrade Novak

Silvia Hildebrandt

A story about conspiracy and revolution, love and hate, and the strong power of friendship. In 1980s communist Romania, three school graduates form an unusual friendship: young Attila, who’s in love with his 45-year-old teacher; Tiberius, son of high-class secret police parents; and the gypsy Viorica, who is forced into a marriage arranged when she ... Read more

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The Burden of Sweetberry (Book 1)

Carol Gosa-Summerville

Set in Sipsey, Alabama in the early 1960s … Sweetberry has lived her life depending on men. She left home as a teenager with soul singer, Eddie Simpson, hoping to live the high life in New York City. When that life ends in a tragedy, she returns home sick and penniless. With no skills and ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg is about to discover what secrets a portrait of Hitler’s mistress is hiding. They’ll challenge her every belief about right and wrong, as they reveal the enduring legacies of love that always outlast war. “Hard to put down…harder to forget.” —Ink Drop Reviews. $0.99 on ... Read more

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Free: The Servant Girl Murders (Book 2)

America’s first serial killer is on the loose… It’s 1885 in Austin, Texas, and a string of grisly murders has put the entire country on edge. Eight murders have happened within city limits, each in eerily similar circumstances, and the police are no closer to catching the culprit than when they started. Austin needs a ... Read more

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Saving Grace

Saving Grace, based on a true story, an Amazon top ten hot new release, a #1 bestseller in Australia. The courtroom drama of the Victorian Age, everyone had an opinion on who poisoned wealthy banker Charles Petrie with his new bride, Grace, as the prime suspect. Did Grace poison Charles? Saving Grace reveals the shocking ... Read more

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Captured Freedom

A cruel and greedy slave owner. An angry mob. A struggle for freedom that could end in death. Nat is a personal slave and confidante to the High Priest. He fights to maintain his integrity amongst his master’s vengeful plans and the master’s wives’ attempts to seduce him. With all this, how can he free his ... Read more

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Minetta Lane

Anthony Allen

New York City, 1904- Bodee Rivers, who has always run from major challenges, moves to the most dangerous block in the city, which is governed by an unusual race-based code. When he finds himself confronted with an unimaginable challenge, he isn’t sure he’s up to the task. Stand and fight or cut and run? $0.99 ... Read more

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The Promise

A.B. Michaels

In the midst of a devastating natural disaster in turn of the century San Francisco, a young soldier on patrol must fight impossible odds to keep the promise he made to a terror-stricken little girl. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Maid of Baikal

“A Russian war story that lives and breathes from a writer at the peak of his powers.” Kirkus Reviews What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919? Maid of Baikal presents an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention ... Read more

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The Town Marshal

Robert Vaughan

The Town Marshal is ripped from the annals of authentic American history of the Old West. Its two main participants, James Cooper and Henry Newton Brown, form a close friendship when, along with Billy the Kid, they fight in the Lincoln County War. After that, James and Henry move on, their bond of friendship growing ... Read more

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The Girl on the Mountain

The land is wild and the women must be strong: The Girl on the Mountain is a heartening, at times chilling story of a young wife abandoned in 1899 in a town ruled by one of the lumber companies logging the last of West Virginia’s virgin forest. To survive with honor, she must find friends ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the end of World War II, Anna is plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. “Hard to put down…harder to forget.” —Ink ... Read more

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Lost Children of the Prophet

Abducted as children. Sold into different lives. Brother and sister struggle to find each other. After years of separation, Nat succeeds in finding his sister, Ziva. Though he remains a slave, she is a beloved daughter, purchased to replace a lost child. Unfortunately, Nat’s despicable master lusts after Ziva and will do anything to force ... Read more

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Free: The River Girl’s Christmas

Angela Castillo

Christmas of 1892 promises to be exciting for Zillia Eckhart, especially after she finds out her best friend and sister-in-law, Soonie, is coming home. Soonie is anxious for her family to meet her husband, Lone Warrior. But threats line the Texas trails. The two friends find themselves in a struggle for faith and family like ... Read more

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Chase The Wild Pigeons

John Gschwend

Joe is 12 and suddenly alone with his family killed. His pa is fighting in Gen Lee’s army 600 miles away. Joe must somehow trek there through the war-torn South hoping his father is even alive. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Moral Compass

K A Servian

Florence is shielded from the filth and poverty of Victorian London by her father’s money and status. When he suffers a spectacular fall from grace, she must abandon everything, including the man she loves, and start again in the empire’s furthest colony of New Zealand. Compromise and suffering await Florence in her new home. Against ... Read more

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Abandoned Hope

Young, innocent trader Daphne travels with her father to the wicked city of Nod. When her father is abducted, David assists her in freeing him. It becomes a choice between her father and David. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Law of Moses

Samuel was a quiet man who believed in God, family and education. In 1861 Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter. Against every moral belief, he enlisted in the Union Army and with his first step toward the south, he changed his life forever. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Progeny

The greatest Baseball player of all time was Babe Ruth, The Great Bambino. History tells us that he was married twice and both times adopted a little girl. However, his flamboyant lifestyle provided many opportunities for him to father a child of his own. The Progeny explores the very real possibility/probability that such a child ... Read more

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I, Richard Plantagenet

J.P. Reedman

I, Richard Plantagenet, An Epic Novel of Richard III Complete Edition, updated and revised, containing parts 1 and 2, Tante Le Desiree and Loyaulte Me Lie. Richard III’s story, told in first person from his point of view, using, where possible, Richard’s actual words (in modern English.) From the battle of Barnet when Richard is ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

What secrets is a portrait of Hitler’s mistress hiding? “A story of enduring friendship and the lengths people will go to for love.” Stellar Review. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Unsung Odysseys

Tamara Agha-Jaffar

Unsung Odysseys re-tells the story of Odysseus’ journey home from Troy through the voices of women. Each female speaks directly to the reader in her own voice with each character picking up the thread where the previous character left off. The work will appeal to readers interested in re-telling of ancient myths, in Homer’s Odyssey, ... Read more

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Free: Fortune’s Son

Jennifer Scoullar

Heads you win. Tails you die … Can one man’s revenge become his redemption? Set against a backdrop of wild Tasmania, Australian Gold and African diamonds, Fortune’s Son is an epic story of betrayal, undying love and one man’s struggle to triumph over adversity and find his way home. Discover why Jennifer Scoullar is one ... Read more

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Free: The Beale Treasure

R.J. Hendricks

In 1885, Bounty Hunter Frank Vito, arrives in Lynchburg, Virginia to meet his partner to discuss a potential Bounty. But, as always, trouble follows Vito wherever he goes. He discovers his partner has been murdered and circumstances of the crime are being covered up by the local sheriff and townspeople. The trail to avenge his ... Read more

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Montana Shootists

Sandra Cox

Abby loved David her entire life. When he joined the Marines, she did too. Then disaster struck. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Stolen Dreams

Lynn Landes

The Winds Of Justice Are Blowing… U.S. Marshal, Chase rivers thought he had seen it all until he uncovers four dead mail-order brides on his family railcar. Now, he must recover the only witness and hunt the killers. Simple right? If only the witness would listen. Anika Coltrane travels to the U.S. as a mail-order ... Read more

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Catrina’s Return

AnneMarie Brear

Returning home was more shocking than she expected. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Push Not the River (The Poland Trilogy Book 1)

Travel back to 1790s Poland and “all the sweep and romance of ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’.” This family saga is based on the diary of a countess at a crossroads in her personal life and in her country’s history. Volume One of the trilogy that just won the 2018 Gold Medal IPPY ... Read more

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