At the dawn of modern psychiatry, two doctors encounter an astonishing young woman who will change medical history in this powerful novel of a time when the self was still a mystery, and magic was real. Based on real events, Charani’s Gift is the story of one remarkable young woman’s inner strength, reimagining the western frontier as the borderland between science and magic. Free on Kindle.
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The Other Margaret Beaufort
Free: No Man’s Land
A local hero branded a coward. A community ravished by war. A nation mourns the many fallen without graves at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
One night, as a full moon illuminated a battlefield and the sound of shells pounding the muddy waterlogged earth slowly faded, I saw a man moving in the shadows in no man’s land. Three years later, I encountered him again under very different circumstances. The ‘war to end all wars’ had finished. Its completion had cut short the stories of so many and uncovered one that needed a narrator—to reveal a truth and heal the wounds of broken survivors—providence had chosen me—the least likely to be believed. Free on Kindle.
Modern Women: breaking the mould
Modern Women: breaking the mould is a series of four novels set in the past about women who confounded the restrictions the society of the day imposed on them. Set in the Roaring Twenties and Edwardian Britain (in that order), each book features a different female protagonist: from straitlaced Claudia, who discovers there is more to life than lying back and thinking of England, to Violet, the vicar’s daughter who eschews the confines of married life to forge a career working backstage in a theatre. The author has had the nerve to include a number of real-life characters in her books, including Noel Coward, Mrs Patrick Campbell, the great actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the pioneering suffragist, Mrs Millicent Fawcett. My heroines are linked to one another socially and the series can be read in order, but each book is a separate standalone. Light-hearted in tone but often serious in content, the books are very firmly rooted in the days of women’s fight for the right to vote, to the short-skirts and corset-free times of the Roaring Twenties.
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The Twelve Doors
Free: Gurzil: The Wars of Wrath Book One
Catching Currents
“Historical fiction at its very best . . . lots of laughs to go along with it.” Amazon Reviewer
Unexpected attractions develop when Sally and her brother Will from sophisticated Boston encounter adventurous Caroline and her brother Teddie from the rugged Colorado frontier.
But their courtships are soon ended as they find themselves pulled apart by vastly different ambitions.
Yet as the thwarted lovers attempt to make their own way in a rapidly changing, turn-of-the-century nation, they find themselves unable to forget the one they once adored.
Based on true events, Catching Currents captures not only a tumultuous era of exciting opportunities but also the struggles of those willing to chase those possibilities. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of female strength and perseverance! On October 27, 2015, a newborn baby was abandoned in a New York Orphanage. Never adopted, she was sent on an Orphan train to the Midwest. Follow her adventures as she struggles to survive in a frightening new world and build her life. Free on Kindle.
HEIMAT
Heimat is an epic story of emigrants leaving post-WWI Germany in 1929 for America, intending to return someday to Neisse, their Heimat, as successful American citizens. Before leaving Germany, one emigrant’s plan began unraveling in Berlin’s Bahnhof, where he saved the life of an American diplomat. His heroism created a friendship with the diplomat and the three other emigrants that sustained them through misconceptions of the American dream, the Great Depression, assimilation into American culture, and WW II. However, the war severed contact with their families and sent them on separate paths. To a shipyard to build the means to carry destruction to Germany and their Heimat. Into the US Army to fight the Japanese in the Pacific after surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor. Conscription into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France and Russia and fight against Americans in the Battle of the Bulge. And to the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. $4.99 on Kindle.
The Murder of Sarah Grosvenor
In a small 18th century American village, where the streams ran cool and clean, the soil was loamy, and the people prospered, repeated attempts to end the pregnancy of a prominent young woman resulted in her gruesome death. The Murder of Sarah Grosvenor is a compelling work of historical fiction which revisits those shocking days of deceit, betrayal, and malevolence during the “Age of Enlightenment,” and then further imagines what led to the multiple arrest warrants which were finally issued for the horrific crime some three years later. The factual details of this story may be centuries-old, but The Murder of Sarah Grosvenor is as familiar as contemporary stories of entrenched power and privilege; positions which, when cruelly asserted, demand silence so that the guilty may avoid accountability. A predecessor to modern social warriors, one mythical and courageous child-hero, Rebecca, was willing to risk everything in the pursuit of justice, and it is because of her that the tale of Sarah Grosvenor can at last be told.
The Flight of the Veil
The Bridge to Freedom
A lot can happen in ten days. For ten days, take a peek into the lives of Violet, a domestic worker and her husband Everett a Pullman porter as they face the challenges of the times. Take a peek as they navigate a world where they must balance the demands of those whose expectations of them are firmly grounded in entitlement and control. Despite those demands Violet and Everett live abundantly in a culture rich in folklore and tradition where they are well-loved and respected. Take a peek into a time and place filled with people who you won’t soon forget.
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Free: Charani’s Gift
At the dawn of modern psychiatry, two doctors encounter an astonishing young woman who will change medical history in this powerful novel of a time when the self was still a mystery, and magic was real. Based on real events, Charani’s Gift is the story of one remarkable young woman’s inner strength, reimagining the western frontier as the borderland between science and magic. Free on Kindle.
Passage on a Bridge
Triumph and Treasure: A Scottish Regency (Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series Book 1)
She was a means to an end…he wasn’t supposed to ever love her. He lived an idyllic life…One day, Flynn, Earl of Luxmoore, was a wealthy, carefree lord, courting the woman he intended to wed. And the next day, he’s stripped of all but his title and left with no means to care for his loved ones. When the person responsible for his ruination offers him a solution—marriage to an unwilling and resentful American beauty—he has no choice but to accept. Not if he wants to care for his ailing mother, elderly grandmother, and disabled sister. Fate dealt her a cruel hand…Angelina Ellsworth unwittingly committed bigamy, and when she finds herself pregnant, she’ll do anything to protect her baby. Including fleeing to England and marrying a handsome nobleman, every bit as desperate and opposed to their marriage of convenience as she. She agrees to wed Flynn, stipulating two conditions: the union is in name only, and after a year, they’ll go their separate ways. Except, Angelina didn’t count on her first husband, refusing to let her go. Resentment and anger war with passion and desire… Flynn risks his life to protect Angelina from the madman pursuing her, but is his sacrifice enough? Can a woman who’s vowed to never trust a man again and an embittered lord find contentment in an arranged marriage neither wanted? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Druid
The start of a thrilling historical adventure series, The Druid is perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, and Griff Hosker. With his war-dogs by his side Bellicus of Dun Breatann must hunt down the men who abducted Princess Catia before their bloody plans can be completed… “Dark age adventure at its gripping best.” – MATTHEW HARFFY $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Heart of a Hussar
He’s determined to protect his country. But can he defend himself against the ultimate betrayal? Muscovy, 1610. Jacek D?browski yearns to be recognized for his valor. Hoping his recent promotion to lieutenant will help secure the lands he desires, the twenty-two-year-old Polish cavalry officer earns instead the enmity of his captain. And his out-of-character rescue of two innocents from slaughter sets in motion a chain of grave consequences. Discovering the young woman and her brother are not Russian enemies and have no kin, D?browski escorts them back to the castle in his homeland. But as the rivalry with his superior grows and the blossoming beauty sparks a fire in his heart, the brave horseman may find his dreams of glory lying in tatters. Can the courageous warrior survive hidden schemes that could destroy all he holds dear?
The Heart of a Hussar is the stirring first book in The Winged Warrior Series historical fiction duology. If you like driven heroes, gut-wrenching twists, and vivid scenes of combat, then you’ll love Griffin Brady’s well-researched tale. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Vanishing Woman
“The Vanishing Woman” tells the incredible true story of Ellen Craft, a slave who escaped by posing as a white man, while her husband pretended to be her slave. Ellen and William traveled 1,000 harrowing miles from Georgia to Philadelphia in 1848. It’s one of the most amazing stories of the Underground Railroad. $0.99 on Kindle.
A Slender Thread
The outcome of World War II hangs, as Churchill says, by “a slender thread.” Only the tiny, half-starved Mediterranean island of Malta stands in Hitler’s way.
The relentless strains of war threaten not only the survival of Malta but also the survival of Johnnie and Eleanor’s relationship. Will their future together be yet another casualty of war? $0.99 on Kindle.
A Panther Crosses Over
Flight of Ukraine Sparrow
Torn from her home and family at a young age, a Ukrainian farm girl is swept into the KGB’s notorious State School Four. Here she is taught the dark side of sexual seduction and is being trained as spy for the State.
Risking it all to escape the horrors of her life in the Soviet KGB’s infamous Sparrow training program, the young Ukrainian woman risks all to find happiness in the West. As a defector forced to live undercover in her new home, she achieves the freedom and stability she craves. But her emotional and psychological psyche are still deeply scarred by the death of her boyfriend and her former life in the USSR. This is her story! $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: David: God’s Chosen Crucible
David is every man’s man, an outlaw prophet, a man of war, and a man of God.
He is a ruthless warrior, an ardent lover, skilled musician, and poet-philosopher.
God sees in him the heart of a lion, the tenacity of a bear, and an ever-faithful man of action.
God calls an unlikely and lowly shepherd boy to become the king of the Jews and fighting prince of Israel.
The Munich Girl
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
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Then Like The Blind Man | ORBIE’S STORY
Feisty nine-year-old Orbie Ray hates his stepfather even more than he does mean colored kids with knives – a fact that lands him at Harlan’s Crossroads, there to spend a drought summer on his grandparent’s dirt farm while his family travels on to Florida’s sunny climes. Resentful, fearing for his naively religious mother, Orbie pines for the return of his dead father. He crosses paths with a black Choctaw preacher, Moses Mashbone, who wields a power that could defeat his enemy, but which can’t be used for revenge. $0.99 on Kindle.