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 Tin Whistle

Kathleen Shoop

Inspired by a true story… 1854 Jacob Gusky wakes up hoping Santa has arrived. And he has… but not for Jacob, one of two Jewish boys living at the Boys’ Home of Manhattan. When a friend gifts him a tin whistle, Jacob learns the power of giving, the joy in receiving, and hears what he ... Read more

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The Christmas Coat

Kathleen Shoop

Two days before Christmas, ornery Elliot Ebberts is tasked with school drop-off even though distracted by an important real estate transaction. In the holiday carpool chaos his extravagant, lucky coat goes missing. In a panic, he searches for it, tracing its path as it passes through the hands of good people in dire situations…$0.99 on ... Read more

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Cinder Bella

Kathleen Shoop

She never had anything. He lost everything. Together they create a Christmas to remember. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

Mike C. Erickson

Pianist in a BordelloWhat 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 ... Read more

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The Last Sketch

Gosia Nealon

They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil? $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

Mike C. Erickson

Pianist in a BordelloWhat 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 ... Read more

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Road to the Breaking

Chris Bennett

Nothing survived “The Breaking” unchanged; lives and fortunes, love and hate, freedom and slavery … An epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War. Captain Nathaniel Chambers has left the violent army life behind in Texas, never ... Read more

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Free: The Unwanted Dead

Yorgos Pratanos

A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire nation. The ENEMIES, the Greek Government, the Orthodox Church, and the Vatican. A NATION in mourning. ... Read more

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One Must Tell The Bees

J Lawrence Matthews

When those harrowing words ring out during a children’s entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history. One Must ... Read more

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Free: The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author

Yorgos Pratanos

Along with her husband’s legacy, Helen Kazantzakis, inherits his arch enemies: The Greek State and the Church. The days after his passing, she will face insults and disrespect. Her only consolation is the loving and adventurous memories with him: Her initial dislike of Kazantzakis, his unconventional flirting, his scandalous proposal to live together in Moscow ... Read more

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Standing Against The Wind (A Dying Truth Exposed, Book Two)

Marcus Abston

The tale of lineage and legacy continues with Annabelle’s escape into Indian Territory after fleeing from her cruel slave masters in Mercy, Missouri. In the wild west prairie lands of Oklahoma, she finds protection with her rescuers’ Cherokee family and has to learn how to survive hidden within the Cherokee Nation. As she learns about ... Read more

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Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin

Marc Sercomb

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to ... Read more

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The Girl in the Triangle

Joyana Peters

There are 740 Days left until the fire that changes industrial history forever. It’s 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York. But when an uprising of 20,000 ... Read more

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Chains of Time

R.B. Woodstone

Amara knows what’s going to happen. Even as she prepares for her wedding, she can see him in her visions: Van Owen – the slaver who will raid her village, steal her power, and pursue her across time. He will hunt her from the shores of West Africa in 1859 to the battlefields of the ... Read more

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Free: Lost Child

Jean Dunstan

A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth and raised in a Catholic orphanage in New York City was never adopted. At the age of 13, she was sent to the Midwest on an orphan train and placed out as a housekeeper and farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she ... Read more

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Sigiriya: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, Betrayal and Tragedy in the Royal Court

Senani Ponnamperuma

He rose from poverty to become a virtuous king. She was a slave girl he fell in love with. They lived in a fairytale sky-palace—Sigiriya. Base on a true story, set 1500 years ago, in an exotic orient. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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. “Hard to put down. … Harder to forget.” ... Read more

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The Letter

Barry Cole

Having survived the hell of Stalingrad and the war on the Eastern Front, Sergeant Franz Mayer found he was now a deserter. Faced with the prospect of an SS firing squad, he knew his only hope lay in returning home. Helped by an elderly couple who had lost their only son in the war he ... Read more

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Bicentennial Trifecta: Patriots for the American Evolution

Wm. G. Holst

Armed with his camera, notepad, and ’73 VW Super Beetle, an Army journalist sets his sights on being in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and NYC, all on July 4, 1976, so as to witness how far we have come and how far we have to go. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Jessup

Stephen Ainley

Jessup is a broken man, scarred physically and emotionally, by what he witnessed during World War 2, and now cleans the toilets of prisoners to make money to buy alcohol. When not arguing with his best friend, Marlow, he broods in his room and contemplates suicide as the only way to escape his pain.But when ... Read more

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The Last Sketch

Gosia Nealon

They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil? Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize ... Read more

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Jane Digby’s Diary

C.R. Hurst

Based on a true story . . . Bright, beautiful, and bold, Jane Digby led a remarkable life. Born to privilege in 1807 at Dorset, England, she soon scandalized Europe with her reckless pursuit of freedom. She sacrificed home, family, and respectability for her passions. Kings, princes, barons, brigands, lords, and sheiks were among her ... Read more

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Greetings from Asbury Park

Luigina Vecchione

We celebrate the Greatest Generation for their courage and honor. This is how they loved. Fifteen-year-old Mariella yearns for a new life. Since the Germans arrived in Rome, food has been scarce, and danger lurks around every corner. On top of that, she’s haunted by a childhood tragedy and weighed down with the responsibility of ... Read more

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Free: The Refiner of the Realm: Of Queens and Clerics

Donna Fletcher Crow

1993 Join the adventure as Mary, Gareth, and Brad’s quest to learn the truth of the Stone of Scone takes them to Edinburgh Castle, high on its windy hill. 1068 Experience Margaret’s struggles as the remnant of the English royal family, fleeing William the Conqueror, is blown onto the wild, rocky shore of Scotland. Can ... Read more

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Encounters Unforeseen

Andrew Rowen

The traditional literature about the history of Columbus’s voyage & first encounters with Native Americans remains focused on the European perspective. This book dramatizes these events from a bicultural perspective, fictionalizing beliefs, thoughts, & actions of the Native Americans who met Columbus side by side with those of Columbus & other Europeans, based on a ... Read more

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Three Tales from Vienna

Ray Kingfisher

This epic saga spans a century and three generations of the Rosenthal family of Vienna, as seen through the eyes of three sisters: the prim but compassionate Alicia, the confident social butterfly that is Giselle, and the studious baby of the family, Klara. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pianist in a Bordello

Mike C. Erickson

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

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The Night Medicine

Jody A. Kessler

Blackfoot tribal member Dean Wolfsblood is the guardian of a centuries-old medicine pipe that makes time travel possible. Upon arrival in 1868, Dean, Badger, and Kai discover deceit, murder, buffalo hunters, and a kidnapping waiting for them as they travel across Blackfoot territory to the gold mining town of Helena, Montana. Can they survive history ... Read more

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Jitsuroku Ju: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

Justin Hagen

Told in the context of a life long feud between Musashi and his arch rival, Sasaki Kojiro Ganryu, this epic life story centered around revenge is a version of Miyamoto Musashi’s life story you do not want to miss! A dramatized epic and republishing of Walter Dening’s Life of Miyamoto Musashi with new commentary and ... Read more

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One Must Tell The Bees

J Lawrence Matthews

“President Lincoln is assassinated in his private box at Ford’s!” When those harrowing words ring out during a children’s entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself ... Read more

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Clara’s Curse

Tara L Thompson

Three sisters travel back to the hometown they fled as youths to fulfill their dying grandmother’s last request. Uncovering horrendous family secrets, will they be able to survive or will it be too much to handle? Generational curses, lies, and murder unfold in the new dramatic novel, Clara’s Curse $5.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Free: Viking Blood and Blade

Peter Gibbons

865 AD. Amidst the invasion of Saxon England by the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok, Hundr joins a crew of Viking warriors under the command of Einar the Brawler. Hundr fights to forge a warriors reputation under the glare of Ivar and his equally fearsome brothers, but to do that he must battle the Saxons, and ... Read more

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The Last Sketch

Gosia Nealon

Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize against Hitler’s forces. But she’s devastated when the Gestapo storms her house in search of rebel leaders, killing her heroic father and leaving the face ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the treacherous years of Nazi Germany, she uncovers a web of long-buried family secrets. “Hard to put down. … Harder to ... Read more

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Free: Lost Child

Jean Dunstan

Lost Child: A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train where she was placed out as a farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. A story of female ... Read more

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Free: The Celtic Queen

Lauren Goffigan

The true story of a Celtic Queen during the time of the Romans… 43 CE, Britannia. Cartimandua, the daughter of a tribal chief, is determined to continue the peace her father has created in the wake of the Roman invasion. But when a native chieftain defies the Romans, Cartimandua must make a choice between continued ... Read more

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The Munich Girl

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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 finds her every belief about right and wrong shattered. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Tide Between Us

Olive Collins

No. 1 BESTSELLING Novel. 1821 – A cargo of Irish children is deported to the cane fields of Jamaica: 1991 – Their story is uncovered. Inspired by the real story of 2,000 Irish children deported to Jamaica and the statistics that 25% of Jamaican citizens claim Irish ancestry. The Tide Between Us is a powerful ... Read more

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The Burden of Sweetberry

Carol Summerville

The Burden of Sweetberry is a powerful story of adultery, murder, and betrayal. Sweetberry searches for redemption after her lover murders her fiance on the church yard. Can even the blood of Jesus wash away her sins or will the ghost of Luther drive her insane? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Bombay Blood 1

Loyal Carvalho

An age-old 14th Century plague resurfaces to haunt the present-day city of Bombay. With increasing loss of lives at the tick of each passing minute, the authorities are under enormous pressure to unearth the root cause. While in the process of tracing the roots to this, they discover intersected historical pasts linked to an anonymous ... Read more

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