Historical Fiction
Step into the past with novels set in ancient empires, royal courts, world wars, and the forgotten corners of history. Our historical fiction shelf features richly researched stories from independent authors, with free and discounted ebooks added as new deals arrive.
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As children of the Great Depression, Beverly Nelson and Chester Tretiak learn early what it means to go without. Their families, stripped of livelihoods, struggle through years of meager meals and threadbare clothes. When both families relocate to Santa Rosa, California, the two children find in ...
Three holidays. Two ghosts.And a town that knows how to take care of its own.
It’s October 1998, and Manatee Bay is swept up in the Spooks and Spirits Festival—a bold new autumn weekend where Halloween, Samhain, and the Day of the Dead share the same stage beneath a rare Ghost Moon. Main Str ...
A girl. A goddess. A question that will cost everything. 1913 Crimea. Thirteen-year-old Oksana Mangupli enters the legendary cavern of blue light and answers an ancient calling from a forgotten goddess. From the polar north to Moscow to the Black Sea, she will search for Her truth. As revolution tea ...
“If we don’t leave now, we may never get out.”
Lena and Nikolai Siemens dream of a simple life on the steppes of 1920s Crimea—farming their land, raising their children, and practicing their Mennonite faith in peace.
But as Stalin’s iron fist closes around Russia’s German ...
In the dark stretch of World War II, ambitious student and newlywed Adrienne Kennedy is asked to give up everything she’d planned for her future—her degree, her home, even her name—when her husband Joe is recruited for a top-secret wartime mission in the New Mexico deser ...
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Italian immigrants, Chicago mobsters, and the Roaring Twenties come alive, equally gritty and glittering. Luca Lombardo esca ...
Based on historical events, "An Appointed Time" is an account of state police recruit Frank Mahan's challenging journey in 1959 to a fateful confrontation with fugitive John Coyle in the bogs and swamps of Middelborough, Massachusetts. The story is a character study of these men and it considers the ...
1852. The American frontier is still raw, dangerous, and very much up for grabs.
It's the end of World War II in Guna, India, and as a small child, Charu vows to become a doctor, as doing good deeds is the path to salvation in her Hindu faith. On the bus to med school in Gwalior, Charu meets the vivacious Shyla, another med student who inspires Charu to take new risks. Just as C ...
Black Eagle A woman on the run…a warrior’s vow…an assassin on their trail. THE WARRIORS OF THE IROQUOIS, BOOK 1 With the English and the French at each other’s throats, struggling for control of the North American continent, the battle lines have been drawn. But Marisa Jameson is witness to treacher ...
New York, 1872. Sadie McGillicuddy’s word is her bond. Swearing to her dying mother to always protect her willful sister, she’s soon tested when her beautiful younger sibling runs off into the night. Jumping on a San Francisco train in hot pursuit, the resourceful young woman evades a gangland enfor ...
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I’ve been immersed in the lives of Scotland’s first Stewart Queens. Joan Beaufort, Euphemia Ross, and Annabella Drummond, women who shaped a kingdom. They endured more than the chronicles ever admitted, but their voices have been softened or erased by time.
I wanted to gi ...
After a harrowing escape from Mississippi, abolitionist Durksen Hurst, his fiancée Antoinette DuVallier, and their friends — a group of undocumented slaves — land in guerrilla-infested Civil War Missouri, the most savage whirlwind of destruction, cruelty, and death in American history. Trapped in a ...
Trace Pierre Tasman’s simple life as a mountain man in 1842 Montana turns into a living nightmare when a beautiful but vicious she-demon begins stalking him. The insatiable desire she ignites in Trace overshadows his dread of her brutal attacks, and as his attraction to her grows, he fears his only ...
Rural Sacramento, 1870. Caleb Stewart can’t wait to be a family man. After battling natural disasters and legal challenges to secure his land claim, he’s finally free to court the French beauty next door. But he’s forced to push his feelings aside when his own hacienda becomes the scene of a suspici ...
"Ella Maud" is fiction based on meticulous research about real events. The story here is one of the biggest murder mysteries of early modern America. When a dispute between sisters leads to an accidental murder, the cover-up divides a city and bedevils a nation. Proper, elegant Olive Cropsey love ...
It is 1763. James Blakiston, overseer of Lord Ravenshead’s estate and a newcomer to the Durham parish of Ryton, is determined to solve the mystery of old Reuben Cooper’s murder – but he has no idea how to go about it. As enclosure threatens to make the poor even poorer, Blakiston follows one misguid ...
In the tumultuous Tudor Era, Katherine Plantagenet finds herself caught between the shadows of her past and the uncertainty of her future. At just fifteen, she feels the weight of her lineage as Richard III's illegitimate daughter. Married to the Earl of Huntingdon, she fears rejection, haunted b ...
Some deeds cannot be undone... After his brother's narrow escape from England, Thom Mowbray is left in a cell to rot. When a Prince of England returns him to the world for personal gain, Thom has a choice to make: Revert to his old ways – or forge a new reality. If you love historical fiction wit ...
Just before America joins World War 2, a college student is called to join distant relatives honoring the 100th birthday of his Great Uncle Jonathan in Hendersonville, NC. While there, the old man begins the story of how he came to live in the South, far from his native Boston. From a family of p ...
"…a gripping tale for fans of Southern fiction...a story of deceit, slavery, and dangerous complicities..." - Readers' Favorite. Broke and despondent, trickster Durksen Hurst arrives in rural Mississippi seeking redemption for his disreputable past — and maybe some glory. When he encounters a dozen ...
1943 – Bletchley Park, England Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who’s on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her, Mae's life takes an unexpected ...
Clutching her suitcase, Charlotte Valette tightens her grip, determined the five orphaned children will not see her fear, because she is their last hope. Paris, 1943. A Nazi guard watches her from the shadows, his eyes fixed on her as if he’s already chosen her. On the platform, her sisters wait ...
Rolf Schilling was an enthusiastic member of the Naval Hitler Youth in Cologne, Germany, until he was kicked out for being half Jewish. His father divorced his mother rather than lose his job or leave Germany. The rest of the family fled to America, and Rolf is angry. As Rafe Ma ...
Can a woman trapped in a loveless union escape without sacrificing her precious grandchild? Ireland, 1055. In an ancient realm where time weaves a tapestry of love and loss, a woman trapped in a loveless union must find the strength to break free, even if it means sacrificing everything for her pre ...
In The Gist of It, will they be able to sort good from evil?
When Travis Cooper's friend, Captain Robert Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Rangers, enlists his help to bring a band of outlaws to justice, Travis soon learns it's personal. But determining the good from the bad isn't a ...
Chanoch’s family live in fear of the people dwelling in the land between the rivers – those who hunt them, seeking vengeance for old wounds. But when the time comes for Chanoch to find a wife, Yahweh's call leads him directly into the heart of enemy territory.
There he meets a woman whose ...
Elizabeth Sutherland, whose life was rosy as a child in Victorian England while growing up in a famous Newcastle pub, ‘The Barley Mow', by the River Tyne. When her father died suddenly, the Sutherland siblings met their unknown illegitimate brother who claimed the pub, and a scandal ensued. ...
Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she'd been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreat ...
Sunshine.
Sea breezes.
Secrets deadly enough to sink a town.
Every tide brings something new to Manatee Bay.
This one brings murder.
In 1998 Manatee Bay, sunshine and small-town secrets go hand in hand—and no one knows that better than artist Kate MacGregor. When the Spri ...
Heidi became a widow when her husband’s U-boat sank in the Atlantic. She wonders how her American school chum Rachel is faring. Her husband Paul must be at war too.
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History tells us that Cortes conquered the millions of the Aztec nation with an army of just 500 men – but ...
A hard-boiled detective. A beautiful blonde in trouble. What could go wrong? In the aftermath of World War II, detective Lou Delacroix walks the mean streets of New Orleans, trying to scrape out a living, harder for Lou, born Marie-Louise Delacroix, now that men have returned from the war. A beau ...
It’s 1925. Scarlet Haslewood is a con artist. Besides perfectly baked pastries and strong coffee, she has a fondness for stealing things. But she knows that stealing the most famous painting in the world would be pointless. After all, what can you do with it once the world finds out it’s missing? Hi ...
With her parents dead, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony is left at the mercy of her Roman captors. Heir to one empire and prisoner of another, Princess Selene must save her brothers and reclaim what ...
Some men are remembered as heroes. Thomas Hargraves earned it: a young man who went to fight fascism in Spain, who pulled his neighbours from the rubble of the Manchester Blitz, and who spent the rest of his long life building a charity that lifted thousands out of hardship. When he dies, his jou ...
Historical/espionage thriller (not a romance).
The Cold War. A backdrop to betrayal. A playground for power. A rogue Soviet general mobilizes to overthrow the Soviet regime and gain control of the USSR's military arsenal. The world is on the brink of war. To stop him, the US president sen ...
In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, but Wales wasn't conquered for over two hundred years. The Welsh princes were a thorn in the side of the English kings until Edward I, building castles and roads as he went, finally conquered Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last Prince of Wales. Tol ...
An unfinished diary...
A wartime secret...
Amsterdam 1945: During the last few months of WW2, Louise, a young mother living in Amsterdam, is hiding a Jewish girl with a baby in her attic. Her husband is on the run from the Nazis. Louise is cold, hungry, scared and has no way of knowi ...
Katarina's Dark Journey takes readers on a haunting journey through war-torn Ukraine in 1918 with a parallel story set in post-war Munich. When darkness falls, faith prevails. 1918: Southern Ukraine. When the Bolshevik Army sets fire to the German Mennonite villages, seventeen-year-old Katarina and ...
She was a beautiful woman in search of her son. He was a photojournalist in search of fame. In a war-torn land, their paths would collide. The hardships that he witnesses will change his goals. She will change his life.
Bobby Wallace was a talented photojournalist. He delivered on time ...
London, 1909 Ruby Redlick is a young woman with a passion for reading, who yearns to break free of her constrained life in Upper Norwood and go on the stage. She dreams of playing dramatic characters like her idol Sarah Bernhardt. But the West End is full of lords, predators and courtesans ...
In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed. The Last Climb is a pulse-pounding, bite-sized tale of survival based on one of history’s greatest floods.
When young Chief Tupak feels the ground shake beneath his feet, he knows something is terribly wrong. The ...
Alina's husband John de Mowbray takes control of the Lordship of Gower in 1320, in an attempt to secure her inheritance. But her father had sold it to the king's favourite, and the king takes it back. The Marcher Barons side with de Mowbray and rebel against the king. But although it eventually lead ...
Deceit in Time is a prequel to the award-winning IN TIME series winner of the Bookfest Gold Medal for Best Fiction Series. It combines historical fiction and mystery with a touch of romance. It has the same elements of family, legacy, and truths wai ...
San Francisco, 1872. Susannah Carterton yearns to be accepted as a serious artist. But family comes first, and she accompanies her adored adopted niece back to the guardianship of an unsuitable biological uncle. But when an estranged friend is found murdered and she stands accused, the panicked pain ...
Book 1 of the Tales of the Southwest series.
For years, stories have circulated around the Superstition Mountains about an old hermit who seems to have been there forever.
University of Arizona gra ...
He needs a strong wife. She needs to escape the cotton mill and save her deaf sister's life. They both have secrets. they both tell lies. Can they find their way to love?
A hero lost in battle. A shocking discovery. And a daring odyssey that will put a young man squarely in the crosshairs. 1838. Silas Grant prepares for a future with the girl of his dreams. The resourceful sixteen-year-old is learning the blacksmith trade from his father and frontier skills from Texa ...
Sacred sexual rituals bring Taras soul to the ancient Temple of Astarte
Tara is a young American who travels to Jerusalem, where she meets Yoni, a handsome Israeli who is a sexual shaman. Yoni and his wife Hagar take Tara on journeys of deep self revelation, using ancient rituals and sacr ...
A dying man's last breaths point toward a tantalizing treasure and the answers to a shattered family's past. 1941, the island of Zante, Greece. Pantelis Kokinis and his family live under the dark cloud of Italian occupation. As the horrors of the war draw nearer, reality for the Kokinis family grows ...
Greece, 1970. Twenty-year-old Melina Freris is down to her last drachmas. Stitching her life back together on the small island of Lifnos is hard. Until a warm British shopkeeper tosses her a lifeline. And a resistance fighter she keeps running into gives her something other than grief to think ab ...
In the heart of Wyoming's untamed wilderness, Hannah Sullivan’s world is thrust into chaos when her father, fueled by alcohol, puts her up for auction at the trading post. Hannah's journey becomes one of survival, strength, and the pursuit of a life beyond the shadows of her father's actions. Can sh ...
Matt Tillet, an F-8 Crusader pilot, is shot down over North Vietnam in 1966. He escapes from his spiraling, out-of-control jet with only seconds to spare, but is quickly captured by Vietnamese militiamen. Surviving torture, months of solitary confinement and the infamous Hanoi March, the dream of re ...
She’s spent years hiding from the saddle. Now, on a critical inspection day at a wartime remount depot, she must answer the call to courage.
At Foxwood Remount Depot in 1915 England, Mildred Watts has chosen the safety of hay and muck over the saddle. Ever since one careless mistake ch ...
Beneath the outgoing façade Madeline Brooks hides a secret. Lively, energetic and ambitious, Madeline is studying music at the Royal Academy, building a career as a pianist. Behind the outward success, she is struggling to cope with scars inflicted on her psyche in her troubled past. Then violinist ...
The layman's guide to Magna Carta and a good story too. The relationships, arguments, bad behaviour, and civil war around the imposition of the Great Charter on King John, and what happened afterwards.
Ulrich Blackhand began his day in the Germanian village of Dolpheim like any other. An act of deceit and dishonesty from another would put his life in jeopardy and he would be forced to flee all that he has known. In his flight he discovers a threat to his people, their lives and freedom were in per ...
The 1950s for three Yorkshire sisters who grew up under the same roof but shared little beyond their surname, Bell. Biddy, Dorothy, and Madge could not be more different. Post-war Britain rebuilds; each woman dreams of a future shaped on her own terms. Childhood rivalries and clashing personaliti ...
Murder. Corruption. Romance. Movie stars. A modern day TV shoot ‘em up? No. It’s 1926 Old Hollywood, and a film producer is gunned down in cold blood. In comes Rosie, a pretty bit-player, who, in spite of her stage-mother’s expectations, just longs to be happy. Silent screen idols Clara Bow, Gloria ...
Addicted to the world beyond the veil, will he escape creeping danger before his future is forfeit? Wilmington, New York, 1849. Moses Munch defines happy-go-lucky. Living amidst the gloriously beautiful Adirondack mountains, the skilled hypnotist loves to spend his days using his gift to help others ...
Raised in the saddle, shipped off to boarding school, wed into money, she longs for the simple way of life she left behind, but she never expected it to start with a run for her life.
After given no choice but to defend herself, Carlee Bols Gibbons flees St. Louis, and sets her route for ...
Uqnitum is a singer from a famous musical lineage in the kingdom of Mitanni. When the fall of their city to the Assyrians costs her the life of her husband and her youngest child, she and her pregnant, widowed daughter flee to the court of Ugarit. Haunted by guilt over her part in her husbands death ...
BORN AGAIN, an historical fantasy combining biographical/cultural fact with character-rich fiction. For history buffs, this presents the real world as it evolves from the thirteenth to the twentieth century; for fans of magical realism, this story teases the idea of a selfish, malevolent spirit t ...
A magical gift of the fae. When a soothsayer faces her end of days, can she find her lone heir before more blood is spilled? Ireland, 1177. Royal seer Orlagh’s prophecies of war fall on deaf ears. So with her sons long dead and only an intractable girl for an apprentice, the aging visionary dreams o ...
The number one best-selling thriller Stealing Time continues it’s “breathtakingly original” journey. Ronnie Andrews returns from eighteenth century London shell-shocked from her first terrifying time travel encounter. Her boyfriend, Jeffrey Brennan, casts doubt on her sanity leaving Ronnie wondering ...
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Three voices tell the story of The Past Ever Present: Clay Jeter (this experience as a child played a pivotal role in Clay’s later decision to attend film school and direct film); Clifton Coleman as a mischievous child begging his brother to play with him; and Clifton as a grandfather and guardian o ...
When he falls for a woman promised to another, can an enchanted family heirloom aid his quest to Scotland and his ardent desire? Ireland, 1746. Traveler Éamonn Doherty thrives on wine, gambling, and song. But when his womanizing draws him to a fiery-haired lass impervious to his charms, he finds hi ...
Harry Bradford is a lawyer and sometimes detective. Some call him a bounty hunter. With half of his face torn to pieces toward the end of the Civil War, people turn away from him. He fled his native Indiana where people did not wish to hire anyone who reminded them of the war. He hoped to find am ...
Mark's experience and love of history has given him a keen eye and dry quirky sense of humour that veils a message about the human condition. In A Cat's History of the World, Mark speaks from the cat's perspective of history's events – tongue in cheek, as is Mark's way to send us a message.
A stolen scroll. A cursed bloodline. A prophecy that binds three witches across life and death…
Scotland, 1729. When clairvoyant healer Fiona MacLeod discovers an enchanted scroll, she uncovers a prophecy linking her fate to two other women: Eleanor, a servant-turned-mistress of a scandalous ...
A scorned prophetess. A deadly omen. Will this kinswoman of Adam and Eve persevere with intuition she can’t deny? Zyla is used to the elders of the clan rejecting her dark glimpses into the future, and bitter that she doesn’t receive the honor she believes she deserves. When her forecast of a terrib ...
1471 : The battle of Barnet rages. Richard of Gloucester, King Edward IV's youngest brother, is only eighteen.It is his first battle and he is wounded…. but when the Kingmaker falls in the fray, Richard and his brother Edward press on to ultimate victory at Tewkesbury. Ric ...
An F-15 goes down behind enemy lines, challenging an Air Force family's faith. When survival is questionable, will their ties to God fray? While clearing out her mother’s estate, Dani Robicheau Kirkland makes a shocking discovery: a box containing pieces of her parents’ life hidden away after her ...
FROM THE AGES OF PIRATES IN THE CARIBBEAN TO THE FREE SPIRIT OF THE 1960s, a woman's journal spreads the hope of forgiveness and grace across the ages. Captured by the pirate Gaspar and held captive for ransom, Magdalena is taken from everything she knows.
What began as a welcome journey to the ...
Carol becomes a Red Cross doughnut girl, serving GIs and boosting their morale. Convinced wartime romances are doomed to disappointment, she attempts to avoid entanglements. She tra ...
In a world where the South has won the Civil War… It’s 1982. A hundred years have passed since the South emerged victorious in the War of Northern Aggression. From the ashes of the aftermath, the industrial North has evolved into the technical center of the modern world, while the agrarian South, no ...
When a young Hittite charioteer discovers that the chariot accident that killed his father and maimed his grandfather was sabotage aimed at the king, he sets out to find the killer. Facing the loss of everyone he holds dear, he learns that good and evil are often not what they seem, and he must stru ...
A novel of wild women, the bonds of friendship, a harrowing road trip, and help found in the least likely places.
In 1905 Kansas, ex-dancehall girl and outlaw Ruby Calhoun has settled into a (mostly) quiet and (mostly) lawful life. But out of the blue her past comes hustl ...
Inspired by a true story of love and women's resilience during the rise of fascism and WWII ~A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever~ Fonzaso, Italy, between two wars, Nina Argenta doesn’t want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughte ...
A daring puppy. A vicious war. When the merciless desert craves her humans' lives, can this K-9 defend them, or will she pay with her blood?
A husband lost at Dunkirk, the vocation to make glorious music and a second chance at love. It’s 1944. Widowed and grieving for her dead husband, Madeline Hanson has abandoned her career as a concert pianist. But while touring RAF bases with a troupe of entertainers, she discovers a beautiful gra ...
87-year-old ex-spies Max and Olivia live in a nursing home forgotten and waiting to die when they are dragged back into the world of international espionage. The fate of much of the world hangs in the balance. Also, in this series: Claudia – Operation Chaos and Operation OBE – Over Bloody Eighty. Th ...
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In a hostile land, a young woman stands against enslavers and learns—survival isn't freedom. A socially conscious, epic adventure—sprinkled with magical realism and laced with southern gothic.
A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding s ...
Far from the glittering lights of her palazzo, elite courtesan Belladonna is forced to hide among the shadows of the tenement buildings in the Venetian Ghetto. Two men bearing secrets threaten her elite status and her life. Can she reclaim her love without falling victim to her enemie ...
Rosamund Clifford was one of the most famous royal mistresses of all time. Renowned for her beauty, she was secreted away in a mysterious bower at Woodstock by her lover, King Henry II. To the womanising Henry, she is, at first, just another conquest...but then, he falls in love. His marriage to ...
Hatfield 1677 is inspired by a true story of love, courage, and survival in seventeenth-century New England. Benjamin Waite, devoted husband and father, is the volunteer military scout for the colonial Massachusetts town of Hatfield during King Philip’s War. He protests a planned attack against a N ...
1614. At long last, Belladonna has been reunited with Isaak, a pirate captain, on the island of Jamaica. Amidst the chaos of hurricanes and Spanish marauders, they are separated. When she discovers her beloved Isaak is captured and bound for execution in Spain, Belladonna goes back to Venice, pla ...
In the late nineteenth century, Wealthy and headstrong Kit Firestone chafes under the strictures of the Golden City’s high society, especially the interference of her charming but overbearing mother, Josephine. Kit’s secret rebellion leads to potentially catastrophic results and keeps her from findi ...
The only certainty of war is uncertainty. 1951: Peter stumbles on his adopted mother’s diaries from the Russian Revolution. What happened during those early years that prompted Katarina to go back to Ukraine during WW2? What secrets lie behind the Iron Curtain? 1915-1917: During the great war, Ukrai ...
An untamed frontier. A family’s new start. To survive, they’ll need luck and they’ll need each other... New York City, New York, 1835. Thomas Bennett never planned on living in the shadow of his in-laws. But when a devastating fire wipes out New York City and forces him and his wife, Jane, to leave, ...
Born 1980––Died 1940? Benjamin Bauman, a contemporary Jewish Orthopedic Surgeon, is blinded by a flash of light while driving his car. When the light subsides, he gathers himself and discovers he is now driving another car in another time period. He panics and crashes the vehicle into a light pole. ...
Some things, no matter how hard you try, can never be forgotten. In the heart of summer, as James Bailey prepares to leave his small-town life behind for college, he’s haunted by memories of his first love, Stacey. Their brief one-night affair lingers in his mind, but Stacey has moved on, now dat ...
Adah lives trapped between the life she longed for and the life she chose. She's failed to produce an heir for her once devoted husband. As Lamech becomes increasingly unpredictable and domineering, Adah seeks refuge in legends about the mysterious Wanderer.
Then Lamech takes another wife ...
Before Columbus discovered America, Conchobar washed ashore! A young man is lost at sea and survives a terrifying ordeal only to arrive in a new land with nothing but his memories. His father abandoned him and left him with a curse. His mother gave him a name befitting a king, then died during child ...
