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Free: Confidence John

March 23, 2022 By

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.

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Running with Cannibals

March 22, 2022 By

Four people caught within the grip of war and the greed of domination. One will die. One will find himself by learning that truth stands alone, wears no flag, and employs no spokesman. the other two will live forever, legends in the minds and hearts of the Philippine people. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Maid of Baikal

March 21, 2022 By

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.
Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, Hot Books Tagged With: historical fiction, Russian civil war

Murder on the Death Railway

March 21, 2022 By

Two brutally murdered victims are found in an abandoned WW II Federal internment facility for Japanese Americans. One is a beautiful young Japanese housewife married to a local man. The other is a former POW from the Pacific Theater of war, a survivor of the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway.

FBI Agent Nelson Paine has been assigned to the investigation. Experience tells him the bloodshed has just begun. Get a copy and find out if Paine can catch the killer! $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: historical fiction, murder mystery, mystery, Suspense, thriller, WWII

Free: Murder on the San Juan Express

March 18, 2022 By

Johann Mueller, a German born physicist was a scientist for the U.S. Department of War. Traveling on the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s famed San Juan Express, Mueller dies under mysterious circumstances.

With World War II raging and foreign spies operating in the United States, FBI Special Agent Nelson Paine is assigned the sensitive task of uncovering the truth about Mueller’s death.

Find out if Agent Paine is up to the task! Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: historical fiction, historical thrillers, mystery, spy novel, Suspense, thriller, World War II

Free: After the Voyage

March 15, 2022 By

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, Hot Books Tagged With: historical fiction, Irish American

Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora

March 15, 2022 By

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, women's fiction

Lost Child

March 12, 2022 By

A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train. Placed out as a farm laborer, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. How did she survive? $3.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: family saga, historical fiction

The Emperor’s Servant

March 11, 2022 By

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.

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Heimat

March 3, 2022 By

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.

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Soldiers of Freedom

February 28, 2022 By

SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM is the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europe and the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes of William McBurney, a tank gunner in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, Hot Books, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Tagged With: factual, historical fiction, kindle books, mystery, Suspense, thriller, world war 2, WWII

My Splendid Concubine

February 27, 2022 By

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: chinese concubine, historical fiction, kindle books, unconventional romance

Free: Vinegar Hill Blues

February 26, 2022 By

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
— Shari Simpson for IndieReader

A sense of melancholic charm and humor laces the narrative as the pages flow past in the blink of an eye.
–Readers Favorite review
Free on Kindle.

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The Highlander’s Heiress: A Historical Scottish Regency Romance (Castle Brides Book 2)

February 26, 2022 By

She’s a strong-willed heiress. He’s a powerful lord with a secret. Tempers and passion collide. Yvette Stapleton has no need for a husband. Ever. Possessed of a fortune,
she’s determined to forge her own future without matrimony’s confining bonds. Besides, she’s yet to meet a man who doesn’t find her wealth more alluring than her. Until she meets Ewan, the Viscount Sethwick, that is. Ewan, also Laird McTavish of Craiglocky Keep, has one last mission before resigning his position as a covert agent: to oust a War Office traitor. He’ll stop at nothing to succeed. Except exploit Yvette, the vixen who captured his interest months ago. As peril mounts, they flee to Scotland, the only place Ewan is confident he can keep Yvette safe. However, on the journey, dangerous circumstances force them into assuming the role of a married couple. Incensed upon discovering the marriage is legal under Scottish law, Yvette is determined to have
the union annulled. But Ewan’s just as resolute she’ll remain his wife… $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, historical romance, kindle books, tudor romance

Free: The Pink Mutiny

February 25, 2022 By

With 4.2 stars in Goodreads, THE PINK MUTINY has ranked in the top 100 of Women’s Historical Fiction, Historical European Romance and Historical Thriller for the past two months.

Her man carries terrifying secrets. But if she escapes, will the world treat her with any more kindness?

1857. Forced to flee her abusive husband in the dead of night, Amelia Lawrence is determined never to let him touch her again. But her frantic exodus falters when she stops to help an enigmatic local woman, and ends up alone in a foreign land, reliant on the trust of a stranger. And with the bloody Sepoy Mutiny raging in India, the strongminded Brit is now stuck in a country at war with her own.

But the refugee finds herself emotionally conflicted when she catches the eye of a wealthy businessman.

Will she find refuge in the arms of a new lover before her time runs out; or will her political passions betray her heart’s desire?
Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historical fiction, historical thrillers

The Unnamed Girl

February 21, 2022 By

In the fog of battle, Confederate Private Woody Woodard stumbles across a gold-cased ambrotype of a little girl near the body of a dead Union soldier. Somehow she becomes his only respite from the nighttime demons of war that torture him. He must find her.

An award-winning historical novel, The Unnamed Girl is the saga about one soldier’s quest for peace and purpose. And love. It’s 1862 in Virginia, and Woody has no more stomach for war. He leave his comrades temporarily to find the girl’s family, return the likeness, and give witness to how her father fell in battle.
$2.99 on Kindle.

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Free: The Devil’s Garden

February 19, 2022 By

Read Chuck Driskell’s newest historical thriller, The Devil’s Garden, a sweeping saga following a team of women & men in WWII Occupied France. The team are known as Les Invalides—a squad hell bent on punishing sexual predators operating under the fog of war. Free on Kindle.

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Jane Digby’s Diary: To Begin, Begin

February 8, 2022 By

Here is your chance to read someone else’s diary – with her permission, of course. Jane Digby was a woman ahead of her time. Born in 1807 to wealth and privilege in Dorset, England, she sacrificed respectability to travel the world in pursuit of true love, all the while sampling contenders along the way! Any reader of her diary (and yes, it is written as an actual diary) should love history and language and have an appreciation of independent women who chart their own paths.

This volume is the first in a completed four-part series which chronicles Jane’s life from seventeen to sixty-six. Though a modern work of historical fiction, I strived to recreate the historical Jane Digby and her times as accurately as possible. I would love for you to read it. CR

$0.99 on Kindle.

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The Consequence of Anna: An Epic Family Saga About Love, Friendship, Obsession, and Madness

February 8, 2022 By

“SHAMED BE THE WOMAN WHO ALLOWETH SUCH A SIN.” – The Amazon #1 Bestseller, inspired by a true story . . .

Two cousins share a deep, sisterly love for each other. And a man. One of them will be driven into madness.

It’s the year 1930, and Anna May Shahan’s world is about to change. The eccentric housewife from the small woop woop town of Esperance, Australia, lives on an isolated farm by the sea with her loyal husband James, and they lead a simple, hardworking life. That is until Anna’s beautiful widowed cousin Lottie returns from the States after being absent for over a decade. Lottie confesses to Anna her heart’s greatest desire to have a child, and Anna, in fear of losing her beloved cousin again, seeks to grant her wish by means of her own husband.

James knows his wife has some undiagnosed mental condition, blaming it for her salacious idea, and refuses to take part in it. But Anna is relentless, and finally one night successfully manipulates him into going along with her plan. She gets her way, but her choice to help her cousin soon brings devastating consequences for them all.

A literary achievement and the most emotionally gripping book of the year, The Consequence of Anna is a complex family saga, intertwined with the haunting mystery of Anna’s mental illness and the secrets, lies, and revelations revealed through the hidden passions of Lottie and James.

Kate Birkin and Mark Bornz have crafted a poetic story layered with lush romance, the frightening effects of altruistic intentions gone wrong, and the strong bond of female friendship. A provocative and powerful allegory, cutting through rules and boundaries, and proving the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: family saga, historical fiction, kindle books, mental illness

Island Queen

February 8, 2022 By

“Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive…by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”–The New York Times

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.

Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.

Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.

From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history. $2.99 on Kindle.

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Free: BLOOD OF ROSES

February 5, 2022 By

Richard Duke of York lies dead on the battlefield, lured to his death by a false Christmas truce.
The House of York has fallen…but not for long.
The Lancastrian army of Margaret of Anjou has reaped the whirlwind. Edward of March, Richard’s heir, is coming after them, tall, handsome, and a fearsome warrior…and he wants vengeance and a crown. Free on Kindle.

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Breaking Point

February 1, 2022 By

1940, World War II. The Nazis have crushed Europe, and Hitler launches a massive aerial assault with the Luftwaffe against the heavily outnumbered British RAF. The fate of civilization teeters in the balance. Spitfire pilot Johnnie, and Eleanor, a brilliant Fighter Command mathematician confront danger together in this brilliantly written novel.
$0.99 on Kindle.

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The Reborn Prince

January 29, 2022 By

Luc, a poor but vain young man in 1775 Paris, is confused by his dreams of gilded ballrooms and unknown people in lace and jewels. What’s more, everything before the past two years is a hazy fog in his mind. His only link is Aunt Mathilde, who gives him few answers.

What he doesn’t know is that ‘Aunt Mathilde’ is in fact his mother and a Sorceress. She keeps him captive under her magical veil, desperate to both protect him and punish him for the evil deeds of his royal past.

When disease leaves Luc scarred and weakened, he feels his life is over. He pushes away his humble friends, including Emilie, a young housemaid.

Emilie, scarred from smallpox, is resigned to life as a spinster. Yet, she sees beauty and joy in life and understands Luc’s despair beneath his bitter, beastly attitude.

Unless Luc can embrace his inner strength, care about others, and love unselfishly, he risks destroying himself once more.

Book 1 of the ‘Mages in the Mundane’ historical fantasy series. A twist on Beauty and the Beast, with family drama, a secret underground society of Mages, and a sweet love story. The novel ends with a lead-in to the sequel.

$0.99 on Kindle.

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One Night With Finnbar

January 28, 2022 By

It’s no surprise that Edmond Mattox is demanding payback for his loss of face, but how could Martin have known the price would be Finnbar’s innocence?

Martin has to choose. Is he the man who steps into the breach when evil threatens the powerless, or is he just another aristocratic prat who puts his own needs first?

One Night With Finnbar is a tale of blackmail, betrayal, and murder set in 1767 London. $2.99 on Kindle.

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Pianist in a Bordello

January 27, 2022 By

Pianist in a Bordello. What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all. He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become. Are voters really ready for the whole truth? Are you? Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle.