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.

The Colonel’s Daughter (Kit Carson Book 1)

Douglas Hirt

Kit finds himself on a hunt for a beautiful kidnapped young lady…and it takes him into the jaws of hell. He’ll rescue her, or die trying. The legendary Christopher “”Kit”” Carson, a skilled marksman, trapper, and hunter, finds himself involved in a manhunt when the beautiful daughter of a Missouri colonel is kidnapped, and he ... Read more

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Wake Not the Hangman

Deborah Leigh

The poignant tale of 15-year-old Thornton Guthrie, who plots an escape from the family farm with his father’s three slaves. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

Mike C. Erickson

Are voters really ready for the whole truth? Are you? Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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Across Great Divides

Monique Roy

Across Great Divides is a timeless, World War II story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, one Jewish family refuses to be destroyed and defies the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting Apartheid in South Africa.... Read more

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Black Crossing

C.K. Crigger

Isaac Gilpatrick witnesses the killing of old Marshall Blodgett, and when his mother Ione is threatened with death – or worse – he is intimidated into remaining silent. But the guilt he carries wears at Isaac’s nerves, until he can bear it no longer and vows to put the information into the new marshal’s hands. $0.99 ... Read more

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The House of Closed Doors

Jane Steen

In Nell Lillington’s small Midwestern town of the 1870s, a young woman’s destiny is marriage. Nell, determined to escape matrimony, finds herself pregnant but refuses to divulge the father’s name. Nell’s stepfather Hiram sends her to the Poor Farm so her baby can be discreetly adopted. But when two small bodies are found at the Poor ... Read more

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Free: Letters From The Gold Rush Wagon

Charity Phillips

A family desperate to correct their sweet daughter’s twisted legs takes a journey out west in the hopes of paying for her surgery with the hidden treasures of the California Gold Rush… Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Outlaw Series

Chet Cunningham

Six GREAT novels from America’s premiere western author Chet Cunningham. Ride Tall, Hang High; Six Guns; Dead Man’s Hand; Avengers; Rio Grande Revenge and Showdown at Flagstaff are western action adventure full of gun smoke, fists, flashing blades and non-stop wild rides across the great west. All this, and a great buy as a boxed ... Read more

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Free: Mail Order Bride Louisa

Faith-Ann Smith

After the death of her sweetheart, Louisa feels that there is nothing left in life for her, and wonders what she could possibly do to fill the years that lie ahead. When her sister Eleanor suggests that she consider becoming a mail order bride for one of the men in the frontier, Louisa is appalled, ... Read more

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Love Reveals

Leo Love, and his only son, Michael, navigate their way through the cultural limitations and divisions that afflict American life. Starting from the 50’s and into the new Millennium, their lives at times, cross with the lives of some of history’s greatest icons. Joining their intellects and talent together, they become beacons for the Doomsday ... Read more

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Free: Mail Order Bride Caroline

Faith-Ann Smith

The Lord guides Caroline to an ad in the newspaper from a gold miner in Bannack, Montana who is searching for a lovely woman to become his bride. Soon, she joins the wagon train and anxiously makes the journey out west to start her new life. When she arrives in Bannack, however, she discovers that ... Read more

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Rye’s Reprieve

Louella Nelson

  In 1886 Montana Territory, a surgeon’s secret keeps him from the rancher he loves—a spirited woman who must remain a spinster to protect her land and family. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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Free: Mail Order Bride Laura

Charity Phillips

  The Civil War has just ended, and as the men return home and reclaim their jobs, Laura Masterson finds herself unemployed–and worse, forever without the man she had loved with all her heart. Free on Kindle.  ... Read more

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Crossed Arrows

Terry Grosz

  In 1829, Jacob and Martin left Kentucky to become Mountain Men, trappers of the Rocky Mountains. The rugged mountains that lay beyond America’s frontier remained mostly unexplored. In those days, when beaver were plentiful and the buffalo roamed freely, the killing was good. The two young men would also find that life would be ... Read more

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We’ve Come to Take You Home

‘An emotionally-charged story of a friendship forged 100 years apart. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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We’ve Come to Take You Home

  Samantha Foster and Jessica Brown are destined to meet. But one lives in the 20th century, the other in the 21st… It is April 1916 and thousands of men have left home to fight in the war to end all wars. Jessica Brown’s father is about to be one of these men. A year later, ... Read more

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Napoleon’s Rosebud

Humphry Knipe

  The beautiful daughter of a penniless widow is frustrated with her life on the remote volcanic island of Saint Helena until Napoleon, now an exile, arrives there out of the blue and sweeps her up in a world of intrigue as he plots his escape. Based on a true story. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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Legacy of Truth

Christy Nicholas

Set in late 18th century Ireland, Esme must grow up quickly in small, isolated northwestern town. Her parents are leaving for America, abandoning her and her sister to fend for themselves. As she struggles to find her place, she finds it difficult to keep hold of what’s left that’s precious to her. Once married and ... Read more

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Shadow of the Mast

L. J. Martin

When young Sam McCreed is shanghaied, he awakens aboard a California-bound hide, horn, and tallow brig. A ship he didn’t want to join, on his way to a place he thought he’d never see…driven on by a vicious captain and sadistic first mate. By the time they reach the Pacific, Sam is no longer a ... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

Mike C. Erickson

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

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Iron Ships, Iron Men

1858, the United States of America. A country ideologically divided: between those in the North who abhor the concept of slavery, and those in the South, for whom slavery is their lifeblood. Upon the high seas, Lieutenant Rod Bascom is saved by Jerry McGann, and from their encounter grows a friendship. In an epic tale ... Read more

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We’ve Come to Take You Home

Samantha Foster and Jessica Brown are destined to meet. But one lives in the 20th century and the other in the 21st … It is April 1916 and thousands of men have left home to fight in the war to end all wars. Jessica Brown’s father is about to be one of them. A year ... Read more

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Mail Order Prairie Bride

To escape her fearful life in Boston, Sarah MacFarland answers an ad for a mail order bride on the Kansas prairie. It seems like the perfect solution, until she meets her soon-to-be husband—a ruggedly handsome, strapping farmer who leaves her breathless on their wedding night. But is it possible that two tormented souls can find ... Read more

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Free: Magnificent Farewell

Karen J. Hasley

In 1917, Meg Pritchard is a woman on the run, headed straight for a country at war: France, ravaged by the bombs and battles of World War I. But while Meg may be running away from, she’s also running to ~ to new friends and new loves, to redemption, and to true purpose. To a ... Read more

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Napoleon’s Rosebud

Humphry Knipe

Charlotte Knipe and Daniel Hamilton, sweethearts since childhood on the remote volcanic island of St Helena, are swept up in a whirlwind of intrigue when Napoleon is exiled there after his defeat at Waterloo.  Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Silk Legacy

An epic family saga, a tumultuous love story, a slice of American history. In early twentieth century Paterson, New Jersey, a domineering silk industrialist clashes with his progressive suffragist wife and his radical unionist brother. Jealousy, infidelity, arrogance, greed—the characters’ titanic struggles will catapult you into the heights of their euphoria and the depths of ... Read more

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West of the War

L. J. Martin

Young Bradon McTavish watches the bluecoats brutally hang his father and destroy everything he’s known, and he escapes their wrath into the gunsmoke and blood of war. Captured and paroled, only if he’ll head west of the war, he rides the river into the wilds of the new territory of Montana where savages and grizzlies ... Read more

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The Guardian of Secrets

After fleeing from an abusive husband accused of murder, Celia Merrill becomes embroiled in a Spanish Civil War. Celia’s two sons march under opposing banners, whilst her twin daughters take different paths; one to the Catholic Church and the other to the battlefields. And in the shadow of war, a sinister villain from the past ... Read more

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Wake Not the Hangman

Deborah Leigh

“Seat-gripping suspense scenes. Energetic and spirited storytelling make this…an entertaining read” (Kirkus Reviews). Fifteen-year-old Thornton Guthrie lives in isolation on his father’s farm until one day three slaves arrive. Thornton hazards a risky initial contact with one of the men and sets in motion an audacious escape plan that, through a deadly turn of events, ... Read more

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Wolfpack Publishing’s Western Boxed Set

9 Full Length Western novels from America’s premier western writers…Western Writers of America Spur Award winners and runners-up, NYT bestselling authors Frank Roderus, Robert Vaughan, Gary McCarthy, Chet Cunningham, Douglas Hirt, Kat Martin, L. J. Martin, Cliff Hudgins & Thom Nicholson. Over 650,000 words of fine western writing. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Princess Jahanara’s Notebook

Ali Kiper

In this amazing novel you will embark on a journey that digresses on different levels that mixes blends of history combined with mystery and intrigue that is not for the faint of heart. Main character William Marlowe, an English adventurer, working for the British Queen’s Foreign Service witnesses a burglary in the royal palace of ... Read more

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Free: The War Nurse (A WWII Family Saga)

R.V. Doon

Katarina Stahl, an American Red Cross nurse, is in love in an idyllic paradise. She’s stunned with the Philippines is attacked by Japan. In those terrifying first minutes, she frees a German doctor accused of spying and saves his life. She turns to nursing the injured unaware she’s unleashed an obsession more dangerous to her, ... Read more

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Free: Winds of Betrayal (Books 1 & 2)

A rousing family saga for the fight for America’s independence! The winds of change brews over the colonies. Tension against the crown is mounting daily. In Williamsburg, the rebellion burns strong in the hearts of two siblings, Jonathan and Hannah Corbett. Spirited and headstrong, Hannah finds herself thrust in the middle of a conspiracy when ... Read more

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The Balladeer

Fred Calvert

At age twelve in 1944, Bobby Wayner ran from his Kentucky home after watching his brother die on the kitchen table. An insane farmer had shot him, but because of a lie Bobby told, he blamed himself for Eldon’s death. Now after years of avoiding going home, and then being kept from it by a ... Read more

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The Lost Gospel of Barabbas: The Thirteenth Apostle

An epic and gripping saga of the most notorious man in the Bible. Rome is at the height of its power and cruelty. Insurrection is punishable by death. While the Jews hope for their long-awaited messiah, a zealot hides in the belly of a ship, his hand forced in a rash and devastating event. He ... Read more

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Free: Tabitha

From the author of the groundbreaking series, A Prairie Heritage, comes the compelling story of fiery-haired, fiery-tempered Tabitha Hale. Rescued from a life of depravity, Tabitha gives her heart to God and her life to nursing during the Great War. Will the elite British nursing service accept an American volunteer? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The GingerBread House

Set in a small town during the 1900’s, The Gingerbread House is a Romance/Mystery grounded in nostalgia, mirth, and true love. When a journalist comes home from Europe to take over the town newspaper from his sister, he becomes infatuated with the local people and their stories. From an orphaned young girl to a threatening ... Read more

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The Lost Gospel of Barabbas: The Thirteenth Apostle

An epic and gripping saga of the most notorious man in the Bible. Rome is at the height of its power and cruelty. Insurrection is punishable by death. While the Jews hope for their long-awaited messiah, a zealot hides in the belly of a ship, his hand forced in a rash and devastating event. He ... Read more

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Finding Rebecca

Eoin Dempsey

Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiancé she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as part of Hitler’s Final Solution against the Jewish population.After Christopher and his family ... Read more

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Free: Married By Midnight

Facing a life of poverty and spinsterhood, Lady Anne agrees to a loveless marriage of convenience to man she’s never met. Her reward? A sizable share of the wealthy nobleman’s inheritance–payable immediately after the wedding night, at which time they will go their separate ways. But the charade of a two-week engagement proves more of ... Read more

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