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 Emerald Necklace
Rosalee Linoff seeks to return to her art after her husband’s death. Insecurity plagues her when she meets her new neighbor, best-selling author Fran Barish. A spiral of mutual envy ensues, intensified by Fran’s secret fascination with Rosalee’s granddaughter’s emerald necklace. As tensions escalate, Rosalee faces a dilemma when her granddaughter’s convictions are tested. $0.99 ... Read more
The Healer’s Miraculous Discovery
When Stevie Katz discovers a mysterious object on the shelves of his family’s store, his life changes forever. The object gives him the power to heal the sick and wounded, and a few freak accidents draw the public eye to his newfound abilities. Because he never reveals the source of his power, those around him ... Read more
On the Trail of the Mountains’ Mysteries
The On the Trail adventures continue in book four … What seemed like a straightforward mission becomes an eerie mystery. All the king had ordered them to do was to follow the old map through the Noble Mountains to ensure its accuracy. It should have been a routine undertaking. But confusion builds as the practitioners ... Read more
Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon
William Dempsey was a wonder among wonders. By 18, he had risen from a gang of London street rogues to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Maintained in splendour, celebrated at masquerades – with everything he could wish for. Now all has come crashing down. He is put out in the rain ... Read more
The Cabin at Jackson Hole
Winner of the 2021 Global Book Awards Gold Medal for Westerns . . . With the passing of her beloved father, Ava Butterfall is suddenly plunged into financial despair and must work for the first time in her life. Being adventurous and smart as a whip, Ava boldly accepts a position in the rough frontier ... Read more
To Dream of Shadows
Inspired by a previously untold true story, “To Dream Of Shadows” is an epic tale of compassion, sacrifice, and the strength of the human spirit set during history’s darkest hour. Ideal for fans of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”, “The Choice”, “The Nightingale”, and “Schindler’s List”. Discover one of the most heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heroic tales ... Read more
Free: Warriors of the Forgotten Way: The Samurai Cowboys – Book One
In the spring of 1870, Cade Wilson is one of three orphans of the American Civil War that meet a samurai warrior from Japan in the northern New Mexico Territory. This warrior trains these young men in the samurai way––in their weapons of war and the code they live by. As honor-bound servants to their ... Read more
City Girls to Prairie Girls
Jesse May Brown didn’t want to stay behind and marry the boy next door who adored her. Maude Ray was running from an arranged marriage. Ada dreamed of finding a cowboy out west and planned to save Maude from a disastrous marriage at the same time. With three separate goals in mind, Maude and Ada ... Read more
Free: The Legend Is Born
This is a pre-prequel to the historical literature series Legends of Lainjin set in the pre-contact Pacific. Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Lainjin must now travel to Na?dik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home ... Read more
Advance to Contact: 1980 (Soviet Endgame Book 1)
The Cold War threatens to go hot…… when American hostages are taken in Iran. Where will this conflict lead? The Soviets invade Afghanistan, and the governments of Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev jockey for position on the international stage. CIA operative Fred Poole races against the clock to decode the pieces of a Soviet puzzle ... Read more
The Red Road
There is no duty greater than family… When Jim McGinn is murdered on a dark road in Depression Era Maine, his family seeks justice, with or without the law. They become embroiled in a feud with the Morelands, the most powerful family in the county, during the last days of prohibition and aim to disrupt ... Read more
Warpath
In Warpath,Elias has many thrilling exploits as his world changes when he enters the Southwest frontier of the Tensaw. His incredible journey, full of unexpected twists and turns, requires him to survive the wilderness that would later become the State of Alabama. Along the way, he is befriended by such historical figures as Samuel Dale, ... Read more
Free: The Edge of Revolt
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a riveting historical fiction novel with a modern twist: The last thing David expects is that his beloved son will topple him from the throne. The betrayal threatens not only his life but also his legacy. Coming back to power will put his son in danger. Is ... Read more
The Batter’s Box: A Novel of Baseball, War, and Love
In 1946, a returning World War II veteran is determined to reclaim his place among professional baseball’s upper echelon and win back the woman he once fell for. Two months into the new season, at the top of his game, he abandons his team, casting aside his fame and riches and vanishing forever from the ... Read more
City of Liars
Young navigator Joachim Déulocresca carries the weight of his father’s sins. Determined to honor his family name and rise above his shameful origins, he risks everything to smuggle sacred Jewish ritual objects to a secret community of worshipers, despite the Inquisition’s looming threat. But when he sees his mentor and friend executed for heresy, the ... Read more
After the Fire: Love and Hate in the Ashes of 1967
Still recovering from the 1967 riots, Newark seethes with racial tension, corrupt politics, and rival mob families jostling for influence—and is the wrong place and the wrong time for Italian golden boy Junior to meet Mickey, a tough, smart beauty from the wrong side of town. Can they ever find acceptance in a world that ... Read more
Summers Slain: A 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery (A Lady Gayle Summer Mystery Book 1)
Lady Gayle Summer, a young war widow, is thrown into a world of intrigue and danger when she unexpectedly inherits Bethencourt Castle from her father. When a dear friend is murdered in what may have been a case of mistaken identity, Lady Gayle embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth behind the recent ... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after WW2, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the dangerous years of Nazi Germany, she uncovers a web of long-buried family secrets. ... Read more
Daughter of the King
La Rochelle France, 1661. Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Catholic King. Isabelle is tortured and harassed, her people forced to convert to the religion that rules the land. She risks her life by helping her fellow Protestants, which is forbidden by the powers of France. She accepts her fate — ... Read more
The White Cockade
The White Cockade is the story of the early days of the American Revolution and of the men and women caught up in it: Josiah, who doesn’t want war but can’t escape it. Hugo, once Josiah’s best friend but now his bitter enemy. Mercy, who dreams of marrying Josiah. Walter, eager to fight the British. ... Read more
The Secret War of 1834
Happening just beneath the veneer of recorded history. A doctor, while trying to find a cure for his wife and son, who are dying of tuberculosis, inadvertently concocts a zombie-like plague that is spreading across the population of a young and tender nation. It is up to a small band of heroes to champion the ... Read more
Manhattan Ember
From the No. 1 Bestselling Author. 1866 – In New York’s roughest immigrant enclave, two Irish orphans pave different lives, one finds respectability and the other becomes a proud brothel madam. 40 years later, they come together to solve a mystery that confounded Manhattan. “A finely crafted epic novel from one of Ireland’s greatest historical ... Read more
Lantern Across the Sea
Bastone, a 13th century Genoese sailor and spy, and Esmeray, a Greek fisherman’s daughter fall in love. Amid a chaotic and dangerous world of pirates, assassins, slave traders, and hostile family prejudice, must together prevent a history-changing catastrophe. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Rusted Lantern
Pirates. Mermaids. Time travel. Adventure. Jason is a modern-day teenage surfer in San Diego, California, raised by his single father. When he happens upon an ancient boat dock lantern high up in Sunset Cliffs, he’s transported to the year 1858. Confused and trapped in this new time period, his adventure begins, the magic lantern guiding ... Read more
Free: Magnus Maximus
The true story of an actual evil genius who gets 5 foreign armies to invade Britain in 367 AD, killing 100,00 Britons in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the real-life man sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus means Maximum Great – that’s his name and he’ll become Roman emperor in 383. But this ... Read more
The Dawning
An age-old story of deadly struggle, lovers torn apart and their unwavering promise to find each other again. Can Ejil and Lada beat the odds despite growing tensions between the Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals? Travel back to the Ice Age with Richard W. Wise’s “The Dawning” to find out. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Anonymous Scribe
When the lie is two thousand years old, who, exactly, will the truth set free? While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the ... Read more
Operation Teardrop
Losing the war, Hitler turns to his miracle weapons to hurt the Americans anyway he can. In the last days of the Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler sends a wolfpack of U-boats to launch V-2 rockets in an attack on New York City. Operation Teardrop tells the strange but true story of this final desperate ... Read more
Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel (Pale Rider Alternative History Book 1)
Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! When we lost the American Rebellion against the British in the 1700s, the world for the colonists changed for the worse. After centuries of suffering under the oppressive thumb of the English crown, a wealthy American entrepreneur in the 21st century finds ... Read more
Free: The Legend Is Born
This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is W0tto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has ... Read more
Diary of A Fallen Empire
Diary of a Fallen Empire is a gripping historical drama, and at the center of it is the determined yet conflicted, Constantina, the Emperor’s twin sister, who is carving her place in this theater of war. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and Hitler’s lover – and untangles a web of long-buried secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like ... Read more
The Enchanted Suitcase
The author discovers her German father’s WWII memoirs and embarks on a journey through romantic Paris, the surrender at Normandy, a POW camp in Alabama, and a new life in America. The memoirs reveal unseen sides of her father and provide a glimpse into the life of a German soldier during WWII. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Sign of Nine Stripes
They say the third time’s lucky. And Angus believes his success lies in the colonies. With an offer of employment, he sails the Atlantic for the third time. What could go wrong? But there’s an undercurrent of danger running through the colonies now. Smuggling, protests, and secret organizations are the norm. New taxes and restrictions ... Read more
Free: Warriors of the Forgotten Way: The Samurai Cowboys – Book One
In the spring of 1870, Cade Wilson is one of three orphans of the American Civil War that meet a samurai warrior from Japan in the northern New Mexico Territory. This warrior trains these young men in the samurai way––in their weapons of war and the code they live by. As honor-bound servants to their ... Read more
Shattered Pieces Can Still Shine – Georgie’s story
Georgie, born to a single mother in post WW2, Cumberland, dreams throughout her childhood of becoming a dancer, but instead falls victim to sexual abuse by her stepfather, and then neglect and rejection by both her mother and her absent father. She runs away to London where she is able to kick start her dancing ... Read more
The Mystery of Julia Episcopa
In ancient Rome, a woman flees for her life. Her enemies are those she once called ‘brother’. Hidden beneath her blue cloak are secrets men will kill for. Forgeries that prove the newly self-appointed bishops are not followers of the way, but pretenders who have seized power and will stop at nothing to shape this ... Read more
The Theodora Duology: Fortune’s Child; Too Soon the Night (The Complete Story of Empress Theodora) (Box set)
Theodora, the most powerful woman of the Byzantine Era, navigates political and religious politics, wars, rebellions, and the first world pandemic, all in a male-dominated sixth century. The Evita of her day and someone you should know! Fortune’s Child: Winner of the Overall Chanticleer Int’l Grand Prize, Best Book. Too Soon the Night: Winner of ... Read more
Fortune’s Call
What begins as a high-spirited jaunt west to claim easy riches becomes a grim race for survival. Pegg is only 13 when he and his father set off for the gold fields of California. But by the standards of the 1840’s, he’s on the verge of manhood. Unfortunately, the third person in their party, Fred ... Read more
Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel (Pale Rider Alternative History Book 1)
Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! When we lost the American Rebellion against the British in the 1700s, the world for the colonists changed for the worse. After centuries of suffering under the oppressive thumb of the English crown, a wealthy American entrepreneur in the 21st century finds ... Read more
