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: The Cub´s Mistress

This is the story of the young Moses, a man of mysterious origin whose inner searchings and yearn to believe in the Divine makes him enroll as a priest. A incidental encounter with the beautiful but married Miriam among the colonnades of the temple of Solomon forces him to decide whether to follow his inner ... Read more

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Realm of the Goddess

Seventeen year old Callie discovers she is an avatar of the powerful Hindu Goddess Kali and she has to save the world from Mahisha, the King of Demons. In a timeless tale of good versus evil, travel across the world to a place that time has forgotten. Here lies the answer to an ancient riddle. ... Read more

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Sammy Made It All The Way Home

Loosely based on historical facts, this is the story of how poverty and a corrupt environment draw a young boy into the prohibition gang wars of Illinois. It’s also a love story as a young girl tries to save the boy she loves from a life of crime. After the death of his father, Sammy ... Read more

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To View The Valley

One town. Two families. Ten lives locked on a deadly course for disaster… For when the fine line between romance and revenge is crossed, murder and mayhem are soon destined to follow! $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Witch of Leper Cove

It’s early in the 13th century and the Inquisition is coming to England. Even a small village like Aldinoch is not safe. Alice, an herbal healer, languishes in Guildford Castle’s dungeon. In this exciting tale of betrayal, adventure and hard-won triumph, three orphans must find a way to free the Witch of Leper Cove. $0.99 ... Read more

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Robin: Lady of Legend (The Classic Adventures of the Girl Who Became Robin Hood)

A riveting twist on the tale of Robin Hood, featuring a female hero, dynamic characters, and action-packed scenes! See for yourself why this book has over 500 glowing reviews and is a #1 Bestseller in Historical Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, and Action & Adventure. Full of sword fights and heists, danger and romance, “Robin: ... Read more

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Dangerous Pride

After years desiring Lachlan Forbes, Catriona Ogilvy is thrown into an arranged marriage designed to strengthen clan ties. Once her fondest wish, her marriage becomes a struggle as she adjusts to a relationship founded on obligation, not love. They must overcome their fears and the politics of 18th century Scotland. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Privateersman

Escaping the hangman’s noose in England, commoner Tom Andrews finds himself aboard a privateering ship before fleeing to New York at the time of the Revolutionary War. It is a corrupt place where opportunities abound for the unscrupulous. Betrayal forces a hurried return to England where he and business partner Joseph Star, a half Carib ... Read more

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All Hallows at Eyre Hall

Experience the mystery and magic of a Victorian Gothic Romance set in Eyre Hall, the mansion Jane Eyre rebuilt after her marriage to Edward Rochester, and rediscover the allure of the mature Jane Eyre. This absorbing narrative will reveal the shocking secrets of the original characters, and bring to life new and intriguing heroes, spinning ... Read more

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Becoming Lisette

Independent and beautiful, Élisabeth Vigée, affectionately called Lisette by friends and family, has progressed in the art of oil painting faster than anyone could have anticipated. Having received instruction from her beloved father, Louis Vigée, a prominent Parisian guild painter, Lisette possesses all the qualities of a brilliant young painter, but is saddled with a ... Read more

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SECRET KNIGHT (Arthurian Saga Series)

After Guinevere’s death, Camelot has become a sad and quiet place. King Arthur never shows his face in public anymore. The golden age of chivalry has ended. The Order of the Round Table was broken up, its gallant youth dead or have moved on. Shining Armors and beautiful horses are hardly ever seen anymore in ... Read more

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Glyphs: The Scribe

The Inca have no written word of their history. Legends were first recorded using colored strings and knots. After the Spanish destroyed these devices as pagan tools, nothing was left. No story was left. Until now. Wiraqucha, the creator god, has appointed others to watch over his creations, but after 100 years, the custodians are ... Read more

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Free: Winds of Betrayal 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. With war looming on the horizon, it will be soon discovered there is a high price to be paid for the cry for freedom. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Willows: The Creole

The Arceneauxs have a long history of falling victim to circumstance, but heir to the family home, one woman is determined the legacy will end with her. Embroiled in the fleecing of New York’s bridge funds, she is offered a new life in New Orleans, but what she finds is an abandoned house, a fractured ... Read more

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Vanquished

Known as The Maid of Mayfair for her unassailable virtue, unwavering resolve, and quiet dignity, suffragette leader, Caledonia ~ Callie — Rivers is the perfect counter for detractors’ portrayal of the women as rabble rousers, lunatics, even whores. But a high~ranking enemy within the government will stop at nothing to ensure that the Parliamentary bill ... Read more

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The Yanks Are Starving: A Novel of the Bonus Army

During the tense summer of 1932, a charismatic hobo leads 20,000 jobless World War I veterans into Washington, D.C. to demand payment of their service compensation. In this epic novel that sweeps across three decades, eight Americans come of age in Europe, only to reunite during the Great Depression to determine the fate of a ... Read more

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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

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Corral Nocturne: A Novella

Lonely and isolated on her ill-tempered brother’s ranch, Ellie Strickland has almost given up hope of finding friends, or a sweetheart. But when she meets Cole Newcomb, the handsome, well-to-do heir to the biggest ranch in the county, her summer is transformed. Cole’s invitation to the Fourth of July dance might mean a dream come ... Read more

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A Peek at Bathsheba

At the height of his political success, David (of the Old Testament) takes a stumble, which threatens to undermine all his achievements. He falls in love with a married woman, Bathsheba, and then tries to cover up the scandal, and have her husband, Uriah, carry his own death sentence to his commander, Joav. Only then ... Read more

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Free: Sergei and Hans

In a WWI prison camp, a German guard discovers a Russian prisoner’s journal. The guard then invites the prisoner over for Christmas dinner where they recount their stories of the beginning of the war, and together they share one last meal. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Hard Road Home

The Civil War has arrived in idyllic but poor Louisiana. Riley, a young man in his twenties, is a land owner with a wife and a child on the way. He wants nothing more in life than to work his land and provide for his family. But when soldiers show up on his property one ... Read more

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Free: RC and RUBY Screenplay

RC and RUBY Screenplay is an Amazon Kindle book that is adapted from the historical romantic action novel, Atlantic City Nazi. The major locales are along the US coastline from Newport, RI to Key West, Fl and include locations in Germany prior to World War II. The Screenplay is preceded by a Treatment (Hollywood version ... Read more

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Blurred Memories

Helen Dorcell is about to marry the one man she was meant for. She didn’t count on a war turning her world upside down. It is 1941 and as lovers and husbands are shipped off, a twist of fate will force her into the arms of another man. But an accident will plunge Helen on ... Read more

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The Forgotten Seamstress

Customer review: “This is a soul-stirring story that will satisfy historical and contemporary fiction readers alike.” $1.99 on Kindle, today only (4/28/2015).... Read more

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Breaking TWIG

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life. Not even ... Read more

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Free: Kurinji Flowers

In the mid 1930s Ginny has been abused by a family friend and alienated from her well-intentioned but bossy mother. When the truth of her abusive past comes out, her marriage prospects are ruined – but Tony Tilman, a handsome tea planter offers her another chance for love and she marries him and joins him ... Read more

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Deathspell

A boy orphaned by violence grows up in the shadow of his father’s murder. His older brother offers him a home, but the life of a farmer is a poor fit for Christian Richardson. Set in England in the 1400s, the Wars of the Roses litters the country with plenty of jobs for a young ... Read more

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Free: Orphan Moon

“Orphan Moon,” is a historical fiction novel about a young woman in 1860’s Texas who must undertake a grueling physical journey and face countless dangers, or lose everything she holds dear. It is a heart-wrenching saga of family love, loss, and betrayal. Both a gripping adventure and a timeless love story, it gallops across the ... Read more

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Across Great Divides

Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel connects two ... Read more

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Patrick’s Journey

“Patrick’s Journey” is based on one of those true life stories where fact can seem stranger than fiction. A young 18th century Irishman runs foul of the occupying British redcoats and finds himself banished to a penal colony on the other side of the world. The “journey” in the story is twofold. One is his physical ... Read more

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The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas

Scotland’s 14th-century hero, the Black Douglas, defies three English Plantagenet kings and champions the cause of his wavering friend, Robert the Bruce, to lead the armies to the bloody field of Bannockburn. A thrilling historical saga of star-crossed love and heroic sacrifice during the Scottish Wars of Independence. (Historical fiction — $0.99 on Kindle).... Read more

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Free: 1964

Richard Warren is growing up as a ten-year-old boy in the rural hills of North Yorkshire, UK. Childhood isn’t always as easy as it seems as he deals with work, family conflict, death, and class warfare. Will Richard manage to overcome these toils at such a tender age? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Towers of Tuscany

Set in medieval Italy, this is a beautifully crafted masterpiece of historical fiction and romance. Just $1.99 on Kindle (3/17/2015 only).... Read more

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The Young Lions

Action, adventure and erotic entanglements loom large in young Robert Hamilton’s future as he seeks to make his fortune in the rough and tumble world of the Johannesburg goldfields in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Robert’s business interests and adventures in the wilds of South Africa, bring him into close contact with the ... Read more

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“Across The Pond” by Michael McCormick

“Across The Pond” by Michael McCormick is the story of a young American who fights for his country during the war in Vietnam, only to be rejected when he comes home. The author based the story on his personal experience as an infantry squad leader who served in combat. Upon his return to the United ... Read more

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Brigid of Ireland

In 5th century Ireland Brigid is a slave to her father. When he decides to rid himself of her, she begins a journey across the wild landscape to find her mother. She meets a mysterious poet and a kindly old druid who try to help her but is stalked by a man who believes she ... Read more

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Free: Flowers in the Snow

If you step across the threshold of Betty Grafton’s house, you can be sure of two things: she’ll feed you until you’re ready to bust and she’ll love you before you even realize you’re worthy of it. But soon sad news forces her to relive the darkest moments of her life, she decides to share ... Read more

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War Brides

Customer review: “What a great story, and beautifully told, too. This is fantastic historical fiction.” $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: “The Watcher: A Jack the Ripper Mystery”

After the death of their overbearing father, brothers John and Jack Saunders experience freedom on the streets of London for the very first time, but whilst one wishes only to have a normal life, his brother wants to destroy it. Elizabeth Coles, a runaway from Lincolnshire, learns the identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper, ... Read more

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Voyage of the Heart

From bestselling author Soraya Lane comes a story of friendship, love, and heartbreak at the end of World War II. 1945: Along with hundreds of other war brides, Betty, Madeline, Alice, and June set sail for New York to be with the men they love. Life in a new country comes with many challenges, but Betty, Madeline, ... Read more

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