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. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lantern Across the Sea
December 7, 2022 By
The Lost Gospel of Peace
December 4, 2022 By
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 hidden truths. Comparable books and authors would be…
Dan Brown’s ‘The Da Vinci Code’
Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’
Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’
$9.99 on Kindle.
Free: A Face in the Night
November 30, 2022 By
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 battle of Berlin in 1945, the novel’s main protagonist, Berlin District Attorney Kurt Becker, sees a Face in the Night. The face keeps reappearing, and he thinks he is hallucinating. His life and career take a further unexpected detour when he discovers illegal campaign funds linked to a flawed Berlin construction project. The project becomes his worst nightmare. Site digging unearths a secret Nazi bunker and SS operation. Then, workers discover “Nazi Wonder Weapons.”
An SS division defended these weapons to the last man. Was this why the Nazi leadership predicted a final victory? Were famous scientist Nikola Tesla’s stolen “Death Ray” plans used? What links a mysterious SS officer to Kurt and his villa? As Kurt’s past investigations, family problems, substance abuse, and insomnia haunt him, his life unravels. Things no longer are what they appear to be and take a turn for the worse when politicos try to blame him for the campaign finance scandal. Is someone out to get him?
Kurt Becker was born to German eugenics parents he never knew. He still suffers from the trauma of being an orphan. He is on anti-depressants, and as his marriage deteriorates, he seeks solace with his lonely English neighbor Anne Macmillan, the wife of the English Ambassador to Germany. The wealthy English heiress is the only surviving member of her family. Her marriage with the English Ambassador declines. Anne also has had problems with depression, drinking, and taking too much medication. Her husband loses a fortune in gambling and poor business deals in post-Soviet Russia. He wants her money and will do anything to get it.
The thrilling tale keeps its readers wondering what is real and what is not. Kurt Becker faces his own past when he discovers his biological father’s identity. The question of redemption surfaces as Anne and Kurt struggle with reality. The climax reveals a confrontation that Kurt, Anne, and an Israeli-German healer have while questioning and confronting questions of the unexplained. Ray Kessler takes readers on a memorable journey through historical twists and turns in Germany, New York City, Spain, Israel, and England. Free on Kindle.
Queensborough Rock
November 30, 2022 By
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 are residents of Tampa, Florida.
Stephen lived in Bangkok, Thailand for several years and has authored three novels in the acclaimed NJA Club Series, best described as exotic noir thrillers. The three novels-Bangkok Shadows, Bangkok Whispers and Bangkok Blues-feature American expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen and his eclectic friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club as they face intrigue and danger.
Queensborough Rock is a different kind of novel, set in New York City in the late sixties and early seventies. The protagonist is a young rock and roll manager struggling to break out of the second-tier Queens rock scene into the glamor and stardom of Manhattan. The novel was very loosely inspired by Stephen’s brief career as a rock manager in 1970-71.
When he isn’t writing, Stephen enjoys travel, gardening, yoga, guitar, and following politics and current events with a passion. He’s a voracious reader of fiction and nonfiction in too many genres and subjects to list. He has a special love for apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, literary work by an endless list of authors he loves respect and admires. $1.99 on Kindle.
Cracking of the Mask
November 28, 2022 By
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 life story while on the remote Isle of Pines. After failing to find relief, he turns to penning The Mask, a historical novel set in the mysterious land of ancient Thrace. Zenon’s fiction endeavor is inspired by Evmondia, a kind-hearted Bulgarian girl living in New York who introduced him to the colorful world of the Thracians. He bases his story on events from the 4th century BCE, a time when Philip II of Macedonia, the father of Alexander ‘the Great,’ endangered Thrace. In Zenon’s tale, a young Greek scholar, Trysimachus, sets out on a perilous quest to the court of the Thracian king Ketriporis. As Trysimachus is forced to confront his own prejudices and fears, Ketriporis must deal with the increasing threats to his rule…Beset by perils of his own—amidst ill health—Zenon re-examines The Mask, convinced it contains clues to help him resolve his troubled past. What will The Mask reveal to Zenon?
An epic tale of adventure, battles, and political intrigues—but also of self-discovery, transformation, and personal healing—Cracking of the Mask brings together two worlds and two eras that, at first glance, have little in common. Readers will experience the revival of an intriguing ancient culture as they embark on a journey in which they will face the everlasting conflict between our personas and who we are beneath the masks. $2.99 on Kindle.
Lost Child
November 20, 2022 By
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 survive? $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Legend Is Born
November 19, 2022 By
This is a pre-prequel to the historical literature series Legends of Lainjin set in the pre-contact Pacific. Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Lainjin must now travel to Nadik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home to Wotto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren wind-swept island in the northern part of the island chain? Free on Kindle.
Clay Legionary
November 10, 2022 By
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 of a Roman Legion is not an easy or a direct path.
Clay Legionary is the 1st book in the exciting 19 book series Clay Warrior Stories. Set in the backdrop of the first war between Carthage and Rome, the series explores the lifestyles of the era before thrusting you into the battles of the 1st Punic War.
Warning: This is the parttime seasonal Legion of the mid Republic, not the fulltime Imperial Legion of the Empire, and it is messy.
Finally, heed this: A gladius is a short sword. A prodigy is a talented youth. Put them together and people die.
Welcome to the world of 271 B.C.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Swordmaster’s Daughter
November 10, 2022 By
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.
Cracking of the Mask
November 8, 2022 By
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.
Beardstown
November 6, 2022 By
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.
The Munich Girl
November 3, 2022 By
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 memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle.
Secret of the Old Tower
October 29, 2022 By
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 never been higher. $1.99 on Kindle.
Lost Treasure of Petersburg
October 28, 2022 By
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 two presidents and their mission to save the country no matter who wins the war. Find out if tons of gold lost in the Appomattox River due to a train explosion can ever be found or retrieved from the great depths. The author brings some of his real-life stories together to create an adventure like no other involving two Presidents that no one knew were close friends. $6.99 on Kindle.
Finding The Lost Dutchman’s Gold
October 28, 2022 By
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 Arizona There, inside a small crevasse that Jacob could barely squeeze through, was more gold than his brain could recognize and process. When Jacob takes the gold into town the local thieves, bums, and scalowags take note They see Jacob is spending lots of cash around town and decide to follow him to his mine. They want the location of the mine and are willing to kill him if they have to. Two of the crooks beat him up looking for a map or gold. They beat him almost to death. Fortunately for Jacob, the next morning the Colonel and his eight “Protectors” find Jacob and start nursing him back to health. The “Protectors” possess very specialized skills and abilities and could wipe out small-town populations if they desired. Their fighting skills are second to none and they use them on this adventure. The story unlocks secrets upon secrets. Follow Joe Bryant and John Hawkins as they travel and unlock secrets as well. $6.97 on Kindle.
Secret of the Old Tower
October 26, 2022 By
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 never been higher. $3.99 on Kindle.
Second Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel
October 13, 2022 By
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 an alien craft that can travel through time.That man is my best friend. And he figured out how to use that alien tech with one goal in mind: to go back in time and use our modern technology and knowledge to help the American Colonists defeat the English, with their Revolutionary War, and change the course of history for the better.
And why does he ask me, a lowly, disgraced, former police officer, to be the one to make this precarious journey and try to change history?Because after a British official murdered my wife and got away with it, I have nothing left to lose.
This way, even if I don’t make it back, the course of time will have changed and maybe, just maybe, in the new future I can help shape, America might be a free country and the woman who would have been my wife would be alive.Those two aspirations are worth fighting for.I only hope I can achieve the impossible and change America’s future by going into the past. $0.99 on Kindle.
Death on the Line
October 11, 2022 By
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 duo of Mason and Dixon. But a powder-keg land dispute explodes when the junior cartographer stumbles over a dead body… and he becomes the prime suspect.
Desperate to prove his innocence as each stone marker is laid along the Pennsylvania Maryland border, Angus creeps closer to uncovering the true killer. But with rival claim-makers up in arms and native tribes on the move, the besieged Scot fears almost anyone could be the guilty party.
Can he catch the real culprit before the hangman’s noose tightens?
Death on the Line is the compelling first book in The MacKay Mysteries historical fiction series. If you like engaging characters, vivid settings, and feats of engineering, then you’ll love Carol Amorosi’s enlightening adventure. $1.99 on Kindle.
Forgotten Valor
October 11, 2022 By
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 bid to survive. $2.99 on Kindle.
Revelations From the Dead: Chronicles of the Night Waster
October 9, 2022 By
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 bizarre cures, lost treasure, and an unsolved murder. Eventually, he meets up with the Night Waster, the diabolical nocturnal stalker. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Cover Me With My Izar : A Jewish Family Saga
October 4, 2022 By
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 of the vibrant Jewish community in Baghdad, through the terrors of the Farhud Pogrom to the mass immigration into Israel, a rich story of struggle and learning to adapt unfolds.
From the miracle that was visited upon the barren Latifa, to the disaster Ezra, the sword collector, brought on his own head; from Yvette, who decided to go and earn an education for herself against all odds, to the story of Itzik and Nava, children of the third generation born in Israel who wanted to be integrated into its newly forming society. These are just a handful of the rich tapestry of stories woven together to form the fabric of this book. A fabric as unforgettable and rich as that from which the traditional Izar gown, worn by the Jewish women of Iraq, is made. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Scent of Gardenias
October 1, 2022 By
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.
A Panther Crosses Over
October 1, 2022 By
Read book 1 in the American Trilogy series before book 2, Beardstown, publishes on Oct 4! $0.99 on Kindle.
The Shimmering
September 27, 2022 By
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 ride, accidentally discovers The Shimmering, a gateway that sends him two hundred years back in time.
Emily, with the help of her newfound friend, Tommy Brown (a park ranger), desperately searches for her beloved, who seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. Meanwhile, Daniel struggles for survival and answers while living in the past along the Natchez Trail.
Can Daniel find his way back through time and reunite with Emily? Will Emily discover what has become of her husband? Or are they both destined to live separate lives, never to see one another again?
Treachery, thievery, and bandits await Emily and Daniel as they struggle to find their way back to each other. Be careful! You, too, could be drawn into the secret of The Shimmering. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Fate’s Final Destiny
September 22, 2022 By
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, never giving up hope that they may one day be reunited. 2022 Literary Titan Gold Book Award winner. Free on Kindle.
