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 Theodora Duology: Fortune’s Child; Too Soon the Night (The Complete Story of Empress Theodora) (Box set)

James Martin

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

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Fortune’s Call

Frank Nissen

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

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Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel (Pale Rider Alternative History Book 1)

Michael Roberts

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

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Free: The Bregdan Chronicles

Ginny Dye

The Amazon best-selling Bregdan Chronicles bring the years during the Civil War and Reconstruction to life in a riveting fashion – using characters you will fall in love with and history that is meticulously researched. Romance. Danger. Challenges. Joys It’s all here, waiting to be discovered. Millions worldwide have already joined The Bregdan Chronicles Family ... Read more

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Nina Winter and the Age of Darkness

T.S. Maynard

The things that happen to us don’t define us. The way we react and what we believe does. Nina Winter and the Age of Darkness is a story about a peasant girl living during the Dark Ages in a tiny village tucked away in the Bavarian Forest. She’s the lowest of the low on society’s ... Read more

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Free: The Brittle Saga Trilogy

Tom Kane

The Titanic disaster triggers a bloody-feud between two families in early 20th century America. Magda Asparov, a young woman from Ukraine, is part of an arranged marriage, and due to travel to America to marry Matthew Turner, a shrewd and unscrupulous American businessman. In return for taking the Asparov’s daughter as his bride, Turner is ... Read more

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Free: Magnus Maximus 1

Brent Reilly

In 367 AD, an actual evil genius gets 5 foreign armies to invade Britain in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the real-life hero sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus means Maximum Great – that’s his name and he’ll become a Roman emperor in 383. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Return to Burke County

Re Lewis

Fans of historical fiction might like Return to Burke County. Based on a true story, this novel tells the story of love, loss, plots and justice in the Appalachian Mountains just after the US civil war. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Jane Digby’s Diary

C.R. Hurst

“As the depth of truth of one’s life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your heart.” – Peggy Lee Sprague, Author of The Truth Hunters series ... Read more

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Half Notes From Berlin

B.V. Glants

Berlin, 1933. Hans believes he and his family are safe from persecution. Then, he discovers his family’s dirty secret: his maternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Christianity. Driven by the desire to understand who he is and whether his mother’s blood is tainted, Hans befriends Rebecca, the only Jewish girl he knows. Perhaps if ... Read more

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Chains of Time

R.B. Woodstone

Winner of the 2021 American Fiction Award for Historical Fantasy Winner of the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Award for Paranormal Fiction “A perceptive and gripping tale of race and family.” — Kirkus Reviews Amara saw him in her visions. She knew that the slaver Van Owen would come — that he would raid her village, ... Read more

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There Were No Flowers

William Meffert

William Meffert, his father, and his son are all surgeons. From World War II and Vietnam to today, they have all fought the battle for human life. In There Were No Flowers, Meffert links together the individual lives of grandfather, father, and son to tell a story of war, surgery, trauma, and the joys of ... Read more

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My Mother’s Friend

Sally Jameson Bond

It is August 1944, and seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist, finds herself at Camp Algona, a POW camp that opened last spring near her hometown in Iowa. Unexpectedly, she meets one of the POWs, Sgt. Horst Ebinger, the leader of the prisoner music groups at the camp. Phee is recruited to be the accompanist ... Read more

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Between the Cracks: One Woman’s Journey from Sicily to America

Carmela Cattuti

An unforgettable story of love, loss, and courage! . . . After her entire family is killed in the earthquake following Mt. Etna’s eruption in 1908, Angela Lanza accepts a marriage proposal, beginning a new life that takes her from Sicily to New York. This is a vibrantly accurate portrayal of the Italian-American immigrant experience ... Read more

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Answering Liberty’s Call: Anna Stone’s Daring Ride to Valley Forge

Tracy Lawson

Based on a true story! In January 1778, 29-year old Anna Stone sets out for Valley Forge with life-sustaining supplies for her husband and brothers. Along the way, she’s recruited as a spy–and now the the fate of the American Revolution rests in her hands! Can she elude capture and deliver a crucial message to ... Read more

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Lantern Across the Sea

Michael Ponzio

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. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Lost Gospel of Peace

Timothy

Dear Kindle Readers, I have written a historical novel, and I am hoping that you will find my novel, The Lost Gospel of Peace, intriguing and engaging. The Lost Gospel of Peace reveals long held Biblical secrets that will put things into a totally new perspective. It is a unique use of fiction to unearth ... Read more

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Free: A Face in the Night

Ray Kessler

In his remarkable debut novel, Ray Kessler takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through recent German history. He masterfully moves between past and present timelines, weaving fictitious events with historical facts. Kessler creates a tale of mystery, intrigue, and suspense with a possible paranormal twist. Set in Berlin in 2000 and during the ... Read more

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Queensborough Rock

Stephen Shaiken

Stephen Shaiken practiced criminal law in for more than thirty-five years, the first four in Brooklyn, and the rest in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Queens College and Brooklyn Law School, and earned an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University before starting his legal studies. He and his wife Josie ... Read more

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Cracking of the Mask

Alexander Green

Everything had been planned and executed to perfection. Where was the satisfaction, then? Why was happiness always so elusive? Zenon McClow, a businessman with a checkered past, flees the United States, hiding first in Ecuador and then in the tropical paradise of New Caledonia. Plagued by burning existential questions, he begins to write down his ... Read more

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Free: THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES

James Andrew

A woman is killed near the beach. There is little evidence. But the crime bears the hallmarks of several similar murders some time ago. The trouble is that the man supposedly responsible was sent to the gallows… Set in the aftermath of the First World War, THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES is an intriguing murder ... Read more

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A Stream to Follow

Jess Wright

A riveting narrative that moves from post-WWII America to battle-sieged England to the killing fields of Alsace, A Stream to Follow plunges deep into the crucible of trauma and gives fresh vision for paths to redemption—ultimately weaving an uplifting tale of valor, resilience, and enduring love. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Lost Child

Jean Dunstan

A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 1915, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, at age 12, she rode an Orphan train to the Midwest. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive in a frightening new world and build her life. How does she ... Read more

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Free: The Legend Is Born

Gerald Knight

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 W?tto, 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

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Clay Legionary

J. Clifton Slater

All heroes have an origin – some are more noble than others Growing up on his father’s farm in Tuscany, the far north of the Roman Republic, Alerio Sisera has a unique talent. Unfortunately, his skills manifest themselves when he is too young to handle the consequences. From a farm boy to a battle-hardened commander ... Read more

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Free: The Swordmaster’s Daughter

Terri Green

Women with swords, men with agendas, an enemies-to-lovers historical where girl-power conquers all. A swordmaster’s daughter, her secret band of female fencers, and a handsome scotsman whose sister has fallen prey to a cruel predator, join forces in a quest for justice. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Magnus Maximus 1

Brent Reilly

Get the 31-book historical saga free! Meet the greatest Roman you’ve never heard of. In what historians call the Great Conspiracy of 367, 5 foreign invaders raid Britain to drive out Romans. The emperor sends Magnus Maximus with 4 legions in a war that decides Rome’s fate. A real hero in true events! Free on ... Read more

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How Fires End

Marco Rafala

A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption. A ”beautiful, mesmerizing” novel (Alexander Chee), that is ”a moving depiction of multigenerational loss and love, grief and gratitude, heartbreak and hope.” (Kirkus Reviews). How ... Read more

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Cracking of the Mask

Alexander and Maria Green

Cracking of the Mask is a thrilling novel that combines past and present; antiquity and modernity. It will take readers on an adventure not only to the ancient land of the Thracians, but also to the mysterious territory that is the inner depths of our minds. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Beardstown

Sam Foster

Beardstown boldly tracks the sweep of the nineteenth century across middle America and features an incredible cast of characters, from farmers, philosophers, soldiers, and gamblers to calculating entrepreneurs, charming and brilliant madams, and even a young captain-turned-lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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

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Secret of the Old Tower

Carol Amorosi

Yearning to prove his worth, Angus returns to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all and unravel a solution? With his life on the line, the stakes have ... Read more

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Lost Treasure of Petersburg

James Arnold

Civil War Gold was found in a secret lost tunnel underneath a mansion in Petersburg, Virginia over 100 years after it was placed there. Join the special unit called the “Protectors” as they make their way across America pulling wagons full of gold and the fight to keep it. Learn the most well-guarded secret between ... Read more

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Finding The Lost Dutchman’s Gold

James Arnold

1860s America. Jacob Waltz known as the “Dutchman” to many has come to America from Germany to find his fortune. He is a miner by trade and has been told of unknown riches in America. After traveling the country searching for gold for over a year he ends up in the Superstition mountains. in Phoenix ... Read more

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Secret of the Old Tower

Carol Amorosi

Yearning to prove his worth, Angus returns to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all and unravel a solution? With his life on the line, the stakes have ... Read more

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My Mother’s Friend

Sally Jameson Bond

What if a seventeen-year-old Iowa girl meets a German prisoner of war at Camp Algona, and what if they fall in love? For her debut novel, Sally Jameson Bond draws on her passions for World War II history, music, and her home state of Iowa to weave an endearing story of forbidden love, lies, and ... Read more

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Second Chance

Michael Roberts

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

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Death on the Line

Carol Amorosi

He signed on to map the New World, not solve a cold-blooded homicide. But his dream job just became his worst nightmare… Colonial America, 1760s. Angus MacKay worries he’ll never measure up. Passed from one distant relative to another, the math-minded orphan thinks he’s caught his lucky break when he’s hired by the famous surveying ... Read more

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Forgotten Valor

Richard Thomas Lane

A green lieutenant. A ruthless enemy. A heart-rending choice that will haunt him the rest of his life. If he lives. Korea 1950: When North Korea launches a surprise invasion of the South, Lt. Jonas Stuyvesant finds himself leading his platoon against a battle-hardened enemy. What should be an easy victory turns into a desperate ... Read more

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Revelations From the Dead: Chronicles of the Night Waster

Max Fischer

It’s not a horror novel, but it is ghoulish. It’s fiction, but it’s closely based upon the historical record. Connecticut, 1837: Cabinetmaker’s apprentice Thomas Sullivan deals with the sting of his father’s rejection while an epidemic rages about the countryside. As the disease takes members of his master’s home, Thomas helps the Shaffer family through ... Read more

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