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.
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
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
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
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
Free: Magnificent Farewell
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
Napoleon’s Rosebud
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
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
West of the War
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
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
Wake Not the Hangman
“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
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
Princess Jahanara’s Notebook
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
Free: The War Nurse (A WWII Family Saga)
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
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
The Balladeer
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
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
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
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
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
Finding Rebecca
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
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
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
Free: Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters
When a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found, until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress’ whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo’s ability to dream ... Read more
Wake Not the Hangman
“…seat-gripping suspense scenes. Energetic and spirited storytelling make this…an entertaining read” (Kirkus Reviews). The heartrending tale of 15-year-old Thornton Guthrie, who dreams of plotting an escape from the family farm with his father’s three slaves, William, Ronan, and Henry. Thornton’s desire to flee his wretched father leads to a much bigger quest: freedom for a ... Read more
Free: Of Windmills and War
.The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain. Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs’ chance to go to the World Series. Then, in December of 1941, during his first year at Northwestern University, news of the ... Read more
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. Hunted ... Read more
Free: Winds of Betrayal
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. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Amen Trail
After the death of one of her clients in embarrassing circumstances, frontier saloon girl Leticia Murphy flees with erstwhile town drunk and handyman Eulis Potter. Eager to forget her colorful past and find redemption, Lettie is determined to turn over a new leaf, and Eulis is happy to follow her. The couple impersonates a preacher ... Read more
On My Stars
The author of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons cooks up a novel of hard-won luck and the wonder of reaping blessing from calamity. It’s 1937, and shy, homely, 18-year-old Violet Mathers—battered by a mother’s desertion, a father’s contempt and an accident that cost her her arm—has decided to travel from her Kentucky hometown to the ... Read more
Daily Deal: Kindred
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. $2.99 on Kindle. Browse all of today’s daily deals.... Read more
The Hounds of God
Haunted by memories of the Inquisition, English-born Edric Bigge travels to France to paint beautiful murals on great cathedrals. Just as he settles in he finds himself up against his old foe, the Inquisitor, Bishop Hugo. The Hounds of God transports readers to 13th century Paris where the constraints of the Church on women lead ... Read more
The Witch of Leper Cove
When Lily Bigge learns her mentor, Alice of Aldinoch, is accused of witchcraft she’s stunned. Before she knows it, Alice is condemned as a heretic and locked beneath the tower of Guildford Castle. Alice always knew herbal healers risked running afoul of the Church but she did not really expect it would happen to her. ... Read more
A Leap In Time
A Leap In Time is a time travel romance set in ancient Pompeii in 59AD during its peak of prosperity. Lexi Carter a modern day girl living in Los Angeles unlocks an enchanted painting that enables her to travel between the two worlds. Marcus Cassius is the Adonis that captures Lexi’s heart and soul, forcing ... Read more
Free: Birds of Passage: An Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story
Birds of Passage recalls the Italian immigration experience at the turn of the twentieth-century when New York’s streets were paved with violence and disappointment. Leonardo Robustelli leaves Naples in 1905 to seek his fortune. Carlo Mazzi committed murder and escaped. Azzura Medina is an American of Italian parents. She’s ambitious but strictly controlled by her ... Read more
I Am Celtic
I Am Celtic, set in 10 000 BCE, is an epic journey of the beautiful and spiritually gifted young woman, Solveigh. As part of the tribe that were the progenitors of the Celts, her story takes readers across three continents and through four years of hope, horror, love, and loss. From her original home on ... Read more
Free: Winds of Betrayal (Books 1 & 2)
THE CRY FOR FREEDOM, Book One 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 ... Read more
Chaos: The Oracle
Cyndie Shaffstall, best selling author of Willows: The Creole, brings us a complex tapestry woven of overlapping stories from Greek mythology, Greek history, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Chaos: The Oracle richly illustrates and breathes life into the ancient world. Join the journey. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Grass Sweeper God
Sixteen-year-old Smiley Hanlon is a young woman trapped in a young man’s body. In the 1950’s Appalachia coal fields of Solitude, Virginia, Smiley is placed in the “Mentally Retarded Class” because he is effeminate and wears a blouse and saddle shoes to school. Smiley is backed by his best friend, Lee Moore who protects Smiley ... Read more
Free: Fly The Storm (Historical Fiction)
Blanche Longhurst is a British delivery pilot working for the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2. Trapped above cloud in bad weather she runs out of fuel and crash lands her Spitfire in a field in Nazi occupied France. Although a pacifist at heart she becomes embroiled in the French Resistance and finds herself involved in ... Read more
Free: Belle of Charleston
Set against the backdrop of Antebellum Charleston with the martial clash of brother against brother looming on the horizon–here is an absorbing, tantalizing saga of life during one of our country’s most turbulent times. In a world of pageantry and show, the Montgomery family accepts the way of life that has been antebellum Charleston for ... Read more
