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.
Half Notes From Berlin
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
Chains of Time
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
There Were No Flowers
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
Between the Cracks: One Woman’s Journey from Sicily to America
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
My Mother’s Friend
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
Answering Liberty’s Call: Anna Stone’s Daring Ride to Valley Forge
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
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. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Lost Gospel of Peace
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
Free: A Face in the Night
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
Queensborough Rock
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
Cracking of the Mask
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
Free: THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES
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
A Stream to Follow
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
Lost Child
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
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 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
Clay Legionary
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
Free: The Swordmaster’s Daughter
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
Free: Magnus Maximus 1
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
How Fires End
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
Cracking of the Mask
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
Beardstown
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
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
Secret of the Old Tower
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
Lost Treasure of Petersburg
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
Finding The Lost Dutchman’s Gold
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
Secret of the Old Tower
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
My Mother’s Friend
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
Second Chance
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
Death on the Line
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
Forgotten Valor
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
Revelations From the Dead: Chronicles of the Night Waster
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
Free: Cover Me With My Izar : A Jewish Family Saga
Through a series of stories that span several generations, ‘Cover Me with My Izar’, brings to vivid life the modern history of Iraqi Jews. The stories are fascinating, humorous, filled with humanity, always captivating, and brimming with heart. Each story is told from the viewpoint of a different character across the generations. From the tales ... Read more
Free: The Scent of Gardenias
Determined to escape her hard life, Margaret defies her father and marries. When her husband’s killed, Margaret struggles to survive. Another marriage holds promise but she when finds she’s living a life of secrets, it threatens everything. Free on Kindle.... Read more
A Panther Crosses Over
Read book 1 in the American Trilogy series before book 2, Beardstown, publishes on Oct 4! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
City of Liars
When the Inquisition holds its first public execution in Barcelona, it draws a Catholic heiress and a Jewish navigator into a secret alliance to smuggle would-be targets to safety by sea. As the rescue mission unfolds, a forbidden love blooms between them. Will their heart-stopping escape plan outfox the vicious regime, or will it cost ... Read more
The Shimmering
Romance. Drama. Mystery. Beware The Shimmering, book one in Michael L. Clark’s gripping historical, time-traveling trilogy. Emily and Daniel Lane, a happily married couple, are attempting to live a simpler life and live it to the fullest on their small farm in rural middle Tennessee. The two become separated when Daniel, while on a trail ... Read more
Free: Fate’s Final Destiny
Fate’s Final Destiny is the epic story of two young children growing up on the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Great Depression. As they become childhood sweethearts and fall in love, tragic family and world events cause their separation. Forced to live parallel but separate lives, they learn to navigate and survive the difficult times ahead, ... Read more
A Stream to Follow
With a story that moves from post-war America back to the killing fields of Alsace and to England under the siege of German rockets, “A Stream to Follow” gives fresh vision for paths to healing. Plunging deep into the crucible of trauma, it’s an uplifting tale of valor, resilience, and the search for enduring love. ... Read more
Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 2015, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, she was sent on an Orphan train to the Midwest. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive in a frightening new world and build her life. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
West From Here
West From Here is a timeless story of courage, honor, and manifesting one’s destiny. Based on real history, this novel is historical fiction at its finest and most authentic. In West From Here, author Bill Brown explores a defining time in US history, exploring grand themes at a deeply personal level as Elias finds himself ... Read more
