The Boys from Joppa is historical pulp fiction at its best. A throwback to the trashy novels of the 1940s to 1960s where women craved love, men were tough, and violence was a business opportunity. The type of memorable situations and vivid characters found in the works of Steinbeck and Doctorow. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Boys from Joppa
Free: The Edge of Revolt
The Stamp
A single Nazi postage stamp – hidden for decades – surfaces in Paris, threatening to expose a shameful secret of World War Two that could change the history books.
On a holiday in Europe, Ted Oakley becomes innocently entangled in a web of international intrigue when he unknowingly buy a vintage object concealing the stamp.
The work of a Czechoslovakian master engraver in 1940, this solitary stamp suddenly becomes sought after by a Zurich stamp dealer, a Japanese millionaire collector, the Queen’s Deputy Private Secretary, and MI5.
The Stamp seamlessly intertwines fascinating philatelic facts throughout the story, uncovering little-known Second World War historical events, wartime forgeries and key Nazi characters that keeps you in suspense until the very last page. $3.97 on Kindle.
Free: A Walk in the Brambles and Other Short Stories
Prepare yourself for four thrilling short stories set in the distant past and the far-flung future. In his first volume of short stories, the author brings to life the sights and sounds of four very different cultures, examining how various people and events can influence our lives.
In ‘A walk in the Brambles’ Young Lucille takes an unexpected journey into the heart of her worst nightmare.
In ‘Strangen’ an astronaut reminisces about his time in College.
In ‘Wrath of the Bull’ a Minoan Princess faces her people’s day of reckoning.
In ‘A Goose for Gunnar’ a young Viking warrior has to make a difficult choice. Free on Kindle.
Rooks of the Raven
Fans of 12 Years a Slave or Roots will love the gripping novel that is Rooks of the Raven.
A face without a name is intangible, as is a name without a face…My freedom was taken away from me when my family was discovered by a man–a slave trader–with a personal vendetta. After watching my family tortured before my eyes, me and my baby sister were sold into slavery in Virginia where we learned first-hand everything our parents worked so hard to conceal us from.
I didn’t want my baby sister to breathe the sins of this world, so I did what I thought was best. I took her life.
Have you ever quenched for a story that will drive intense emotions? Glare through the lens of a 14-year young slave. Both parents former slaves. The thing is, Abel mother a mute. She watches as her beloved daughters are captured in front of her. She could not even cry her children’s name. $1.50 on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
The Paris Package
For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is all it’s cracked up to be. She’s blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht. As she watches the night’s atrocities, Stella never imagines they will touch her personally but touch her they do. $0.99 on Kindle.
Minetta Lane
New York City, 1904- Bodee Rivers, who has always run from major challenges, moves to the most dangerous block in the city, which is governed by an unusual race-based code. When he finds himself alone and confronted with a challenge of an unimaginable scope, he isn’t sure he’s up to the task. Stand and fight or cut and run? $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Prussian Captain
The Substitute Wife (Brides of Little Creede Book 1)
Once his fortune in silver mining is secured, Harrison Carter finally sends back home for his fiancée. It’s been four years since he’s seen Jenny.
But it’s Retta Pierce, Jenny’s sister, who arrives by stagecoach with young daughter Adeline in tow. When this lovely, soiled dove brings devastating news and a written plea from Jenny to marry and care for Retta and little Addie, what’s a good man to do?
RETTA . . .
Fulfilling her dying sister’s request, Retta travels across dangerous territory to marry a man she barely remembers. But the hard miner who meets her at the stagecoach surely isn’t the same one her sister claimed was kind and honorable, a gentleman who’ll embrace her and her daughter as if they were his own. Has she made a mistake she’ll pay for, the rest of her life?
TWO PEOPLE . . .
Thrown together in shared sorrow, Harrison and Retta struggle to forge a life in the brand-new state of late-nineteenth-century Colorado. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: Geronimo’s Bones
In 1901 the great Apache leader, Geronimo, dies after spending 23 years as a U.S. prisoner. Days later, Chaco, a young Marine, discovers he is Geronimo’s last son. His father’s final wish was to be buried ‘in the country that knows my name.’ To fulfill his wish, Chaco must first free his sister from a brothel, and then dig up Geronimo’s bones. Free on Kindle.
A Man Who Would Be King
November 2, 1483. As Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham stands on the scaffold of Salisbury Market Square, accused of high treason, he reflects on his life during the turbulent era of the Wars of the Roses.
After the death of his grandfather, the old Duke, Henry (known as Harry) is sent to the court of the new King Edward IV and placed into the household of his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Harry, coming from a rich and noble line, is considered a “prize catch” for the Woodvilles, and soon he is forced, aged ten, to marry one of the many Woodville girls, causing a burning resentment that lasts a lifetime.
Throughout Harry’s youth at court, he sporadically comes into contact with the King’s younger brother, Richard of Gloucester. Upon
Edward’s death, they form an alliance, which sees the two Dukes secure the young Edward V, uncrowned king, and thwart the Woodvilles, who do not wish for Richard to become Lord Protector of England.
But when Bishop Stillington reveals a dark secret and Edward IV’s children are declared bastards, Harry has other ideas for himself and Richard. Henry Stafford takes upon himself the role of Kingmaker.
Richard of Gloucester is crowned as King Richard III, but despite receiving wealth and lands and offices, Harry is not content. The thought of a crown for himself begins to haunt his waking dreams.
How far will a man go to win a crown? Betrayal, rebellion…murder? $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: A Walk in the Brambles and Other Short Stories
Prepare yourself for four thrilling short stories set in the distant past and the far-flung future. In his first volume of short stories, the author brings to life the sights and sounds of four very different cultures, examining how various people and events can influence our lives.
In ‘A walk in the Brambles’ Young Lucille takes an unexpected journey into the heart of her worst nightmare.
In ‘Strangen’ an astronaut reminisces about his time in College.
In ‘Wrath of the Bull’ a Minoan Princess faces her people’s day of reckoning.
In ‘A Goose for Gunnar’ a young Viking warrior has to make a difficult choice. Free on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
Slave to Fortune
Slave to Fortune is the remarkable story of how a young man comes of age, grasping life from the setbacks of fortune.
Tom Cheke’s world is turned upside-down when he is kidnapped by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery in seventeenth-century Algiers.
Tom carves out a new and promising life only to have it shattered once more when he falls into the hands of a knight of the Order of St John and into a turbulent world of ciphers, spies and assassinations.
In Slave to Fortune, DJ Munro skilfully captures a bygone era of galleons and gunpowder as the plot twists from the alleyways of Algiers, through the splendour of Malta and the canals of Venice, to maritime Portsmouth and the rustic charms of the Isle of Wight. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Trials Of 1939
Free: Three Voices
A Man Who Would Be King
November 2, 1483. As Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham stands on the scaffold of Salisbury Market Square, accused of high treason, he reflects on his life during the turbulent era of the Wars of the Roses.
After the death of his grandfather, the old Duke, Henry (known as Harry) is sent to the court of the new King Edward IV and placed into the household of his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Harry, coming from a rich and noble line, is considered a “prize catch” for the Woodvilles, and soon he is forced, aged ten, to marry one of the many Woodville girls, causing a burning resentment that lasts a lifetime.
Throughout Harry’s youth at court, he sporadically comes into contact with the King’s younger brother, Richard of Gloucester. Upon Edward’s death, they form an alliance, which sees the two Dukes secure the young Edward V, uncrowned king, and thwart the Woodvilles, who do not wish for Richard to become Lord Protector of England.
But when Bishop Stillington reveals a dark secret and Edward IV’s children are declared bastards, Harry has other ideas for himself and Richard. Henry Stafford takes upon himself the role of Kingmaker.
Richard of Gloucester is crowned as King Richard III, but despite receiving wealth and lands and offices, Harry is not content. The thought of a crown for himself begins to haunt his waking dreams.
How far will a man go to win a crown? Betrayal, rebellion…murder? $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Munich Girl
After the Voyage
In this Irish American story, the voyage across the Atlantic after the Great Hunger proves just the beginning for two young people facing the challenges of a new life. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never goes away. Their family’s future will include battles for the workingman with the Knights of Labor, the Navy during the Spanish-American War, the challenges of a single working woman in Boston, dreams of the convent, and life as a mother of nine children. $2.99 on Kindle.
Sword of Peace
The Mistress Wager
Patrick’s Proposal
A rash marriage proposal changes their lives forever, but will it keep her from danger or make things worse?
Emma Davis has no recourse but to run for her life on a stormy night. Seeking shelter in a barn she prays for a reprieve from a life of misery. When the son of a family in good standing helps her, Emma knows he’ll expect something in return. It’s time to run again, but where can she possibly go?
Patrick Langley’s life has been good but predictable. When a woman needing protection enters his life on a stormy night, little does he realize, just how much things are about to change. She brings equal parts of passion and danger. The first is stronger than any storm.
A story of trust and new beginnings. $2.99 on Kindle.