It’s no surprise Edmond Mattox demanded revenge for his loss of face; but how could Martin have known the price would be Finnbar’s innocence? Martin must choose. Is he the man who acts when evil threatens the powerless, or is he just another aristocratic prat who puts himself first? One Night With Finnbar is a tale of blackmail, betrayal, and murder in 1767 London. (adult content) $0.99 on Kindle.
One Night With Finnbar
On the Precipice of the Labyrinth
The novel takes place in the late 1930s and involves William Benning, a young American man who finishes college and has had a strong introduction to the Spanish language. Benning graduates from the University of Virginia in 1937 and has learned about what is happening in Europe in general, and Spain specifically, during that tumultuous decade. His interest in continuing to learn the Spanish language and see for himself what is happening in Spain compel him to begin the improbable journey.
His adventure in Spain proves to be captivating and meaningful, but it gradually becomes more intense and precarious. Meanwhile, Spain is experiencing a Civil War that has deeply divided the country and involved unprecedented violence and suffering. Benning travels through northern Spain where he encounters three young Spaniards, and together they embark on a journey that results in life-altering events. See price on Kindle.
Secret of the Old Tower
A family secret. Two dead bodies. The penalty for murder is death.
The year is 1768. Angus MacKay returns to London after five years in the American colonies. He returns home full of hope for the future, but his lack of education soon leaves his dreams shattered. He discovers you can never go home again.
Yearning to prove his worth, Angus heads north to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Killers often strike again, and the body count is rising.
Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all? With his life on the line, the stakes have never been higher.
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Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
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In the Age of Sail, a captain’s son is left to confront pirates, cannibals, and an angry king after a hurricane devastates his family and their fleet carrying $400 million in treasure. The true story of 1715 Spanish shipwrecks that gave Florida its “Treasure Coast” – as told in the multi-award-winning screenplay. Full-color illustrations. Free on Kindle.
A Widow of Bath Trilogy
A woman in a man’s world, fighting to survive.
A mother, seeking her missing son.
An avenger of murdered innocents.
Against a corrupt church, arrogant nobles, biased judges and lethal assassins, what can one woman do?
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Three books in one volume.
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Operation Teardrop
Losing the war, Hitler turns to his miracle weapons to hurt the Americans anyway he can. In the last days of the Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler sends a wolfpack of U-boats to launch V-2 rockets in an attack on New York City.
Operation Teardrop tells the strange but true story of this final desperate attempt to win the war.
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After the Great War is over, Etta, Cali, and Lucy get handed a bitter lemon- poverty, grief, and despair. As they piece their lives together, they find strength in sisterhood. The love between them becomes the sugar that makes the lemon sweet.
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The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
A dead midwife. His mother accused of the murder. Can Sherlock solve the case before she hangs?
A sudden call back to the family estate only weeks into his first term at Eton, puts Sherlock’s nerves on high alert. When he learns his mother has been accused of murder, he’s pushed to solve the crime with or without his father’s permission. His mother’s life may depend on it.
Another death and attacks on other villagers pit Sherlock against the village constable. Unable to leave his mother’s fate in the hands of others, his search for truth could lead him into the hands of a killer.
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The King’s Favorite
The King’s Favorite is a mystery thriller set during one of the most spirited, scandalous, and memorable periods in English history—the Restoration—when the son of an executed king brought monarchy back to England after the repressive years of the Commonwealth. Following the coronation of Charles II came a reopening of the theaters, with the first women performing on the English public stage. What follows is a devastating London plague and fire, a monarch who openly indulged his sexual proclivities, a series of plots against the crown, and the first true collection of female celebrities—as actresses, mistresses, and even orange girls. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Model Spy
THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. As the war entered its final stages, she faced off against the most brutal of forces—Germany’s Intelligence Service, the Abwehr. $6.99 on Kindle.
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A fire rages. Children race to escape the woods being devoured by flames. A white man in a white robe is carried away on a stretcher. Claire, a young, Yankee teacher, and her new husband, Bruce, move from Detroit to Selma, Alabama in 1969 when he joins the Air Force. It doesn’t take long for Claire to realize there’s more to this town than meets the eye, but she has her own issues to overcome: a miscarriage, family drama, connecting with her students, and settling into social beckonings in the Deep South. This historical novel about teaching and learning also a heart-wrenching and heart-warming family story about newlyweds, new beginnings, new friends, and risky ideals. Claire will have to decide what’s more important: fitting in and settling down, or joining the underground sisterhood fight against segregation and racism – Fems for Freedom. Free on Kindle.
Answering Liberty’s Call
In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight.
As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her loved ones face starvation at Valley Forge, she refuses to sit idly by.
Armed with life-sustaining supplies, Anna strikes out alone on horseback over 200 miles of rough and dangerous terrain. Despite perilous setbacks along the way, sheer determination carries her toward her destination. When she learns of a plot to overthrow General Washington, her mission becomes more important than ever. With the fate of the American Revolution in her hands and one of the conspirators hot on her trail, Anna races to deliver a message of warning to Valley Forge before it’s too late.
Based on events in the life of the author’s sixth-great-grandmother.
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A coded journal. A buried treasure. A dangerous journey.
In the early 1800s, as the Spanish surrender Florida to the United States government, Emily Bisset reunites with her estranged mother Simone to solve a family mystery and seek revenge on the man who abandoned them both: Confidence John.
As they make their way to the southern coast, intending to enter the legendary poker game run by Emily’s con-man father, they encounter escaped slaves, Seminole warriors, Florida patriots, and Spanish missionaries — some friend, some foe, some both.
Soon another mystery presents itself: who is the stranger that pursues them, and how does she know so much about their quest?
Confidence John is a stand-alone novel by Harmony Reed. Fans of Daughter of Fortune and The Sisters Brothers will feel right at home with Confidence John. Free on Kindle.
Running with Cannibals
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What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Army at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919?
MAID OF BAIKAL presents an alternative outcome to the war, vividly portraying its violence, bitterness and hardship, while telling the inspirational story of a determined young woman who perseveres in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
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Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870, having survived Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. 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. They raise three children in the midst of Irish American culture, the Catholic Church, and Richard’s battles for the workingman in the Knights of Labor. Their daughter Mary dreams of being a nun, while Josie seeks the freedom of big-city life in Boston. Neither reckons on the future she will face. Son Tom escapes factory life by joining the Navy, manages to see the world in the midst of two wars, and comes home to marry his sweetheart and start a new life in California. After the Voyage tells a story that is both remarkable and familiar to everyone whose ancestors made their way to and in America. Free on Kindle.
Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Born into poverty, Theodora transforms from actress to prostitute to mistress to Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. In this male dominated world, she shrewdly navigates wars, political crises, a citywide rebellion, and a world plague pandemic. “A gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building.” ~Author Kate Quinn $0.99 on Kindle.
Lost Child
The Emperor’s Servant
Rome. 23 BCE. In the depths of serious illness, the Emperor Augustus calls upon Republican Lucius Sestius. To Lucius’ consternation, he is catapulted into office just at a time when a pestilence is sweeping through Italy. Thousands of people are dying and the River Tiber is riding dangerously high.
But Lucius finds himself not only fighting floods and an epidemic. A conspiracy is forming, centered on Lucius’ friend Aulus and the respected Primus, hero of the war in Macedonia. The Emperor feels threatened and Lucius is expected to choose sides… $0.99 on Kindle.
Heimat
Emigrating to the US to find a better future in America in 1929 Matthias Schmidt’s dream to return to Neisse, his Heimat, as a successful American citizen changed when he saved the life of an American diplomat in Berlin’s Bahnhof. His heroic act established a friendship with the diplomat and three other German 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 Matthias’s family and sent him and his friends on separate paths. To a shipyard to build ships to carry the means of destruction to Germany and his Heimat. Into the US Army to fight in the Pacific after surviving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Conscription into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France, Russia, and fight in the Battle of the Bulge against American forces. And the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. $4.99 on Kindle.
Soldiers of Freedom
My Splendid Concubine
Based on a True Story. After arriving in China in 1854, Robert Hart falls in love with Ayaou, but his feelings for her sister go against the teachings of his Wesleyan-Christian upbringing. To survive he must learn how to live and think like the Chinese and soon finds himself thrust into China’s Opium Wars, where he makes an enemy with
an American soldier of fortune known as the Devil Soldier. In time, Hart becomes the only foreigner the emperor of China trusts, and he plays a crucial role in ending the bloodiest rebellion in history. He owes his success largely to Ayaou, his Chinese concubine.
“Readers interested in unconventional romances in an out of
the ordinary setting will find plenty to enjoy.” – Nanette Donohue Historical Novel Society
“Highly recommended!” – Midwest Book Review
This novel is also available through Kindle Unlimited and has had more than 444,560 page reads. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A wounded musician shipped home from WWII finds his mother has died and his old Brooklyn neighborhood obliterated by a housing project. Always poor, he now wants to succeed as a jazz musician but he also wants money. He thinks the only path open to him is to rejoin his prewar friends and become a thief. One of those buddies, now a cop, makes the decision easy.
There is a moment in the first chapter of Wayne Clark’s historical fiction novel VINEGAR HILL BLUES that literally takes one’s breath away
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A sense of melancholic charm and humor laces the narrative as the pages flow past in the blink of an eye.
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