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: Young Harry: The Scroll of Spera

Amos Castel el Halili

In this historical suspense-fantasy can: the USA overcome the Oil-Nordic-supremacy conspiracy, Armenians and Jews be saved in refuge cities, moderates transform an Islam-centric empire into United Ottoman States? Young Harry salvage the house of Jacob? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Orphans, Assassins & The Existential Eggplant

This award-winning novel takes you on a fun, madcap medieval adventure with a gorgeous alchemist, teenage genius and a 600-year-old shrunken eggplant that speaks to whoever wears it. You’ll cross Europe with the Children’s Crusade, hijack a caravan in the Sahara Desert, touch the petrified body of Adam, and rediscover paradise on the island of ... Read more

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War Remains

Robert “Bobby” Washkowiak battles his way through the bitter first winter of the Korean War, longing for home, his wife, and newborn son. Fifty years later, his son and grandson come across his wartime letters and together, they try to find out what really happened to him on one of the battlefields of that “forgotten ... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $0.99 on Kindle.... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Surviving the Fatherland: A True Coming-of-age Love Story Set in WWII Germany

***Winner 2017 ‘National Indie Excellence Award’*** ***Finalist 2017 ‘Kindle Book Award’*** ***An IWIC ‘Hall of Fame Novel’*** Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander’s SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of history seldom ... Read more

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Free: Long Road to Abilene

Robert Vaughan

LONG ROAD TO ABILENE, is 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. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Garment Maker’s Daughter

In the early 20th century, two immigrants are aboard a ship sailing into Ellis Island, each with their own dreams about what coming to America will mean for them: Daniel, a Polish boy with a love of language and law, and Lena, a passionate suffragette and hopeless romantic. They are about to meet New Yorkers ... Read more

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The Garment Maker’s Daughter Paperback – November 23, 2016

Hillary Adrienne Stern

The Garment Maker’s Daughter is a multigenerational saga of immigrant dreams and sweatshop realities, labor strikes and women’s rights. It is the story of Lena Rothman, a shirtwaist-maker and active suffragette whose plans get derailed when she falls in love with her best friend’s boyfriend; Jake Brenner, a passionate labor organizer determined to lead the ... Read more

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A Dream of Daring

In 1859 Louisiana, a cotton-planter’s son develops a new way of farming that threatens the slave system of the town’s plantation owners. His scandalous preference for a beautiful slave woman over a senator’s daughter further uproots the town. A shocking murder, a forbidden love, and questions of freedom and human dignity unfold in a haunting ... Read more

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Free: Unlikely Soldiers Book One (Civvy to Squaddie)

Deb McEwan

A Welsh girl and an English boy. Nineteen Seventies Britain. The Army. In a small Welsh village, naïve Michelle Warbutton is devastated by a shocking family secret. Forced to rethink her future, she longs to see the world. In Yorkshire and already world-weary, Guy Halfpenny is desperate to escape his miserable life. Both have limited ... Read more

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Hymns of the West: The Complete Series

God’s providence brings two families with two different worldviews of living together in ways only He could have planned. $0.99 on Kindle.... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Rich Man’s Folly

Margaret Tanner

A rich man’s folly leaves a devastating legacy. As the world teeters on the brink of World War II, Paul Ashfield travels to Australia in search of the mother who deserted him. He falls in love with Daphne Clarke and they decide to marry, but Paul discovers a long held family secret that rips them ... Read more

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Free: Those Who Dare

This is the first book in the epic WWII Raiding Forces Series. Meticulously researched (the author was an instructor at the Army Ranger School) the series begin with the birth of special operations—as seen through the eyes of a young American officer who has volunteered to serve with British Forces. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Son of the Moon

Jennifer Macaire

Alexander the Great journeys to India, where he and his time travelling wife, Ashley, are welcomed with feasts and treachery. With their son, Paul, being worshiped as the Son of the Moon, and Alexander’s looming death, Ashley considers the unthinkable: how to save them and whether she dares to cheat Fate. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Eternal Flame

16-year-old Julia Olsen’s world is falling apart. Her quarterback boyfriend broke up with her. Her family’s new home under renovation is a mess. Her high school counselor won’t stop harping on about her grades. A time-traveling WW2 soldier crashing into her room is the last thing she needs. In 1944, 18-year-old Edmond Ferris answered the ... Read more

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Free: A Peek at Bathsheba

Uvi Poznansky

When Bathsheba becomes pregnant, David attempts to cover up the ensuing scandal. He sends her husband, Uriah—who serves him faithfully in his army—to his death. And for the rest of his life, David is tormented by the memory of that moment. Can he muster the strength to keep his promise to her and protect their ... Read more

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Free: Loves in the Shadows, Historical Holocaust Novel

Hadassa Mor

Amazing in its intensity, Loves In The Shadows is a historical novel embracing scores of real events that occurred during the Holocaust and the Second World War. Because of the important message that the author transmits to readers around the world, and because of the fascinating plot and the thrilling stories that fill each page, ... Read more

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Free: Compromise with Sin

When her newborn daughter’s eyesight is stolen by infection, civic leader Louise Morissey, believes it’s punishment for straying into the arms of a handsome Doctor and will stop at nothing to maintain a veneer of Victorian respectability. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Legends of Persia

Jennifer Macaire

After winning a prestigious award, Ashley is chosen to travel through time and interview a historical figure. Choosing her childhood hero Alexander the Great, she is sent back in time for less than a day. He mistakes her for Persephone, goddess of the dead, and kidnaps her, stranding her in his own time. What follows, ... Read more

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Then Like The Blind Man, Orbie’s Story

While fiction about the 1950s Civil Rights era is far from rare, few capture the period and struggles from the perspective of a white child. A storm is brewing in the all-but-forgotten backcountry of Kentucky. And, for young Orbie Ray, the swirling heavens may just have the power to tear open his family’s darkest secrets. ... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Nero Prediction

Humphry Knipe

Was Nero the Antichrist who fiddled while Rome burned or an artistic genius trapped inside a Caesar? In an age when Rome rules the world and astrology rules Rome, Nero’s young secretary battles the prediction that he will murder the musical messiah he worships. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Home Again

The nation is divided, and a bloody Civil War looms on the horizon. Two young men whose paths have crossed before enlist, each with very different reasons for wanting to serve. And while they end up on opposite sides of the battle, in the end, Zach and Luke learn largely the same lessons about honor, ... Read more

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Free: Framed! A Young Boy’s Fight to Survive in the Wild Australian Bush

M.E. Skeel

This book is about a young boy who faces huge challenges to his survival. It is based on a true story. Richard is 8 years old when he accompanies his convict father on the journey to Australia. They start again by opening a butcher shop, only to be framed for stealing cattle. Richard is sentenced ... Read more

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Aurora’s Pride

1898 Yorkshire—Aurora Pettigrew has it all, a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She’s waiting for the right man to offer her marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune and the love of her life. But, Reid’s mother, Julia, is against the match and her ruthlessness ... Read more

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Free: Vittoria

Dafna Vitale Ben Bassat

A swiping historical drama about the unforgettable Vittoria and her Jewish family in face of WW II. The story of the Italian Jewish community in face of the Holocaust, drama of loss and despair, survival and human triumph. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Failed Moments

A. Robert Allen

What if the only way to survive your life is to go back in history to right the wrongs of two other men’s lives? Patrick Walsh travels back to 1790 (French Caribbean) and 1863 (NYC)—two racially charged periods that will test his willingness to do what is right. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Wave From Mama

A. Robert Allen

What do Weeksville, Irishtown, and the Draft Riots of 1863 all have in common? A common place in American history, or the setting for a socially awkward former slave determined to meet the challenges of the day or die trying? All of this is set in the backdrop of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge ... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Cracks

Arye Dreyfus

‘Cracks’ is about a world which doesn’t really change. It revolves around a portrait depicting Hitler as a clown drawn roughly a hundred years before his birth. Some see this Jewish work of art as prophetic, others as symbolic, but the Church strongly condemns it. It rouses passionate reactions worldwide. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Devil of Montlaine

The Beau Monde calls her Naughty Lady Ness, and with good reason. However, her family’s standing and her minor infractions are looked on with affection. Until she goes too far. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Cuckoo Clock New York

Elisabeth Marrion

Kindertransport 1938. Thousands of Jewish children are being sent away from their homes in Germany to live with total strangers in the United Kingdom and further afield, in the hope that they would be safe. What will happen to them on the outbreak of World War II. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Call Of The Morrigú

Christy Nicholas

Life isn’t easy in 1798 Ireland. Rebellions are rising across the countryside, and the English can be cruel overlords. However, this brutality hasn’t reached the country estate of Strokestown. Theodosia Latimer and her grandfather Reginald are on a mission to discover the past. They’re determined to excavate some ancient mounds on the Strokestown estate. But ... Read more

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The GingerBread House

Set in a small town during the 1900’s, The Gingerbread House is Historical Literary Fiction 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 ... Read more

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The Cedar

Carmen Butler

From settling in South Carolina in the 17th century through the pinnacle of the Civil War, The Cedar is an enriching tale of generations of the fictional Bodes family and those close to them. Wrought with struggle against enemies, the challenges of the new world, and personal conflict, it is a must-read for fans of ... 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 Hitler’s mistress. 50 years after the war, she discovers just what secrets it’s been hiding. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Man With Two Names

Quintus Sertorius was once Rome’s greatest hero, now he is her most dangerous enemy. He now tells his story from the beginning, from the treacherous Forum of Rome to the violent forests of Gaul. He recalls how he became friends and enemies of the most powerful men in Rome as he is forced to decide ... Read more

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When It Rained at Hembry Castle

Meredith Allard

Missing Downton Abbey? Read When It Rained at Hembry Castle. A lush historical novel set in Victorian England, When It Rained at Hembry Castle is the story of an aristocratic family, secrets that dare not be told, and the wonder of falling in love. When the 8th Earl of Staton dies, his eldest son, the ... Read more

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