In the early 20th century, three immigrants stand aboard a ship sailing into Ellis Island, each with their own dreams about what coming to America will mean for them. Together, they will change one another’s lives in ways no one could imagine. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Garment Maker’s Daughter
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.
Free: The Beale Treasure: A Frank Vito Bounty Hunter Series
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.
Across Great Divides
Across Great Divides is a timeless, World War II story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, one Jewish family refuses to be destroyed and defies the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting Apartheid in South Africa. $0.99 on Kindle.
Letters from Skye
A fan letter from scholar David Graham in far-away America to poet Elspeth Dunn on the Scottish Isle of Skye sparks a romance interrupted by WWI. Fast-forward to WWII and Margaret, Elspeth’s daughter, has fallen in love with a pilot in the Royal Air Force but can’t understand why her mother warns against wartime romance. When Elspeth disappears after an air raid, Margaret discovers the letters she and David exchanged—one which might hold a clue to her whereabouts. Told in letters, Kirkus Reviews says, “By turns lyrical and flirtatious, Brockmole’s debut charms with its wistful evocation of a time when handwritten, eagerly awaited letters could bespell besotted lovers.” $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: Love and War In British Palestine
A Dream of Daring
A ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist and winner of 6 book awards. Louisiana, 1859: When a young cotton planter tries to end the slave farming system, a shocking murder, a forbidden love, and questions of freedom unfold in a haunting tale that captures the growing tumult of the times, with well-drawn characters, cinematic scenes, plot twists, and startling revelations you’ll never see coming. Its sweeping themes still challenge us today.
“An enticing blend of mystery and romance, much recommended reading.” Midwest Book Review. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Widow Walk
It is 1857 in the American Pacific Northwest. Tensions rise between local indigenous tribes & pioneer settlers. Boston-bred Emmy Evers works to carve out a life for her family as Haida native Anah raids encroaching white colonists. The frontier will soon test Emmy’s will in ways she never imagined. Free on Kindle.
Free: Maid of Baikal: A Novel of the Russian Civil War
What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Armies at a critical point of the Russian Civil War? MAID OF BAIKAL offers an alternative outcome to that war through the intervention of Zhanna Dorokhina, a young woman from the shores of Siberia’s Lake Baikal.
MAID OF BAIKAL is a richly imagined speculation on the Russian Civil War that vividly portrays its violence, bitterness, and hardship, while telling the inspirational story of a determined young woman who perseveres in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Free on Kindle.