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Rose Cottage: Shimla, 1802

June 11, 2021 By

A fictional historical romance, recounting the tale of a young woman from London named Emerald Dawson who journeys to India for the first time. After a brief stay in Bombay, she relocates to the titular cottage in Shimla. She then quickly settles into a routine and makes numerous friends and acquaintances. However, things are soon rendered far more complicated once she meets the Maharaja, with whom she quickly falls in love. She thus unexpectedly finds herself navigating an entirely different world which she never expected to find herself in; one in which she must traverse cultural, social and personal boundaries in order to pursue her love. $3.99 on Kindle.

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The Munich Girl

June 7, 2021 By

The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WWII, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong shattered. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $0.99 on Kindle.

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Lucifer’s Mail-Order Bride

June 4, 2021 By

Lucifer Jones is a tormented man. Under sufferance, he agrees to meet his unscrupulous brother’s mail-order-bride.

Belinda Potter is a mail-order bride who waits in vain for her would-be groom. She is desperate enough to accept Lucifer’s offer of marriage.

What will Lucifer do when he discovers Belinda’s family caused his torment? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: The Apprentice’s Path

May 28, 2021 By

Dana Bedwen never wanted to be a dark mage. It’s her destiny. But what is that, compared to a young woman’s desire to be an Alchemist?

So she is looking for a job as an Alchemist, despite the suspicion and discrimination she faces as a dark arall. She wants to build steam trains and make money, not spend time on silly, antiquated rituals. But the Universe is conspiring against her. In order to save her own life, she’ll have to accept the fate she fought so hard to avoid. On the path to her destiny, she’ll regain long-lost family, a boyfriend, and uncover some secrets about herself. Book 1 of the Alchemist Gaslamp Fantasy series. Free on Kindle.

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Catching Currents

May 25, 2021 By

“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.

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Free: Crumpets and Cowpies

May 15, 2021 By

Lady Jemma Bryan has no desire to spend a single minute in Thane Jordan’s intolerable presence much less live under the same roof with the handsome, arrogant American. Forced to choose between poverty or marriage to the man, she travels to his ranch in Oregon. Will their marriage of convenience lead to something more? Free on Kindle.

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Three Thrilling Adventures in Love, Mystery, and Magic

May 9, 2021 By

Three complete time-travel adventure novels featuring Mike Harker, a rookie cop who is thrown into the past where he is taken in by the charming impresario of a magnificent Victorian music hall. Don’t miss this box set of nearly 800 pages of gorgeous escapism, adventure, and romance! $1.99 on Kindle.

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My Splendid Concubine

May 6, 2021 By

Robert Hart arrives in China in 1854, and his love for a concubine almost destroys him. Soon, he becomes the only foreigner the Emperor of China trusts and helps end the bloodiest rebellion in world history. Based on a true story.

“Those who are interested in unconventional romances with an out-of-the ordinary setting will find plenty to enjoy.” – Historical Novel Society $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Charlotte Holmes Mystery Series

May 3, 2021 By

A re-imagining of the Great Detective and his partner as Charlotte Holmes, a traumatized woman, and her companion Dr Watan, an Indian doctor, as they investigate nefarious activities in the British Raj at the dawn of the 20th century.

Charlotte’s mercurial nature and post-natal depression, following a miscarriage, make it difficult for people to accept the truth of her investigations. It’s only when Dr Watan helps her do they succeed in thwarting the conspiracy.

Their friendship develops over the course of the books but Watan finds her brother Branwell a handful, however their friendship grows as he becomes an important part of the stories.

Lovers, husbands, wives and relatives all add to a growing cast of characters as the various tensions of colonial rule are explored and eventually lead to a conflict as Watan must decide between his political and personal loyalties.

The series continues a decade later as the old friends meet once again to deal with the fallout of their actions. Free to $2.99 on Kindle.

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The Dayton Flood of 1913, A Novel

April 15, 2021 By

INTERSECTING LIVES BATTLE THE FLOOD OF ALL FLOODS.

Sweeping through Dayton, Ohio, in March of 1913, a flood the strength of Niagara Falls rose twenty feet and trapped thousands in businesses, houses, and treetops.

Based on real-life, fictionalized experiences, this is a clean, Christian novel, the first in the Disasters! series. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Tantalizing of a Scandalous Rake

April 5, 2021 By

Adam only intended to lay low but somehow ended up under the care of renowned beauty and innkeeper Miss Rosie Seymour–and he’s struggling to resist giving up his rakish lifestyle all for her. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Earl of Keyworth

March 25, 2021 By

Their aversion was instant and mutual. Or so it would seem…

Celestia Tolman will never forgive Landry, Earl of Keyworth, for trying to ruin her father’s livelihood. She will, however, teach the arrogant lord a lesson he won’t soon forget. The task should be simple—if she can ignore her untimely and entirely unwanted attraction to the handsome devil, that is…

Landry has no patience for liars and cheaters, and he suspects the delectable Celestia is both. He has no intention of letting her sway his sympathies in favor of her charlatan of a father, and he won’t allow her to steal his heart. At least, that’s what he told himself…

But when ugly gossip throws them together in a most unexpected way, can Landry and Celestia overcome their differences and forge a path to happily ever after? Or are they destined to remain enemies forever? $3.96 on Kindle.

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The Makings of Violet Frogg

March 25, 2021 By

The story of Violet Frogg: unhappy daughter, unhappier wife, suffragist, working woman, housekeeper and potential theatre producer. Each new life means a new name and a new identity. What is Violet escaping from? Or is she just a young woman trying to find a role that fits in turn-of-the-20th-century Britain? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Road to the Breaking

March 23, 2021 By

It’s early 1860, and war hero Captain Nathaniel Chambers, commander U.S. Army Fort Davis in the west Texas wilderness, has received a summons home to his family planation in Virginia. What ensues is an epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War. Free on Kindle.

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Heroic Measures

March 20, 2021 By

For Gwen Spencer, fighting battles is nothing new. An orphan sent to live with a vengeful aunt, Gwen picked coal and scrubbed floors to earn her keep. But when she decides to become a nurse, she steps outside the boundaries of her aunt’s demands…and into a world of her own making.

But that world has gone to war.

Amid the chaos, she learns the measure of her own bravery to bear any burden, pay any price and claim the one man she adores as she becomes all that she desires. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Callie’s Revolution: The Audacious Adventures of a Woman on the Run

March 17, 2021 By

Callie Masterson straddles two different worlds in 1916: her past is Victorian morality, her future, Twentieth Century emancipation. She leaps into her destiny on the fastest horse in Mexico and never looks back.

Rumors of an imminent invasion sends twenty-four year old reporter Callie Masterson to a tiny border town in New Mexico. She seizes the opportunity to be a part of the most tumultuous events of the new century by way of her pen, and sometimes her Colt 45. $2.99 on Kindle.

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The Winter Posy

March 13, 2021 By

A must read historical, timeslip story to transport you from the days of big hair in the eighties to even bigger hair and the Beatles in the sixties, by award winning author, Michelle Vernal

Tucked away on Liverpool’s Bold Street is a bridal shop where there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye…$0.99 on Kindle.

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Iron Blood & Sacrifice (The Sons of Beli Mawr)

March 8, 2021 By

This iron-age saga brings to life some of Wales’ oldest and most revered heroes, those of Mabinogion fame. Lludd Llaw Ereint, Nynniaw, Rianaw, Caswallawn Fawr and Llefelys all walk again in this ground-breaking and entertaining trilogy. Never before have the invasions of Julius Caesar been told in this modern and contemporary way and from the Brythons’ own perspective.

Iron Blood & Sacrifice is a bloody romp through the palisaded hillforts of an ancient Britain when its five Kingdoms were riven by treachery and division. Head-hunters, shadow stalkers and all manner of wild and ungovernable tribes occupy ‘Prydein’ in this almost primal era, but they are forced by their priesthood to put aside past differences and to come together as one for the first time to face a new enemy.

It is no ordinary enemy arriving at their southern shores, as Caesar’s marching machine of tyranny has vanquished every force put in front of it, and the disparate tribes of Prydein must achieve a rare and never-before achieved unity to face this killer of Kings and his unstoppable army. $6.99 on Kindle.

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The Book of Uriel: A Novel of WWII

March 7, 2021 By

Ten-year-old Uriel has always loved magical stories of angels and monsters. But when the fires of World War II consume his village, he learns that the old folktales are terrifyingly real. Uriel embarks on a perilous journey through Nazi-occupied Poland, determined to save the Archangel Michael and all of the Jewish people from the clutches of the Angel of Death…$0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: The Mystery of Healing

March 5, 2021 By

A kind-hearted young doctor to the gladiators in one of the Roman Empire’s most glittering cities turns detective when his cherished old medical professor is murdered. Solon of Pergamon, the healer of bodies, must find a route into the human heart to uncover the truth.

Torn between his growing for a beautiful and enigmatic student and the precarious tides of the Roman Empire, he navigates with the same bloody-minded humanity it takes to be chief physician to the great entertainment-warriors of a glittering age.

Classic storytelling in an unforgettable setting. Free on Kindle.

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Sundays

March 4, 2021 By

Dustin Murphy’s blocked memory of childhood trauma is the key to unravelling a modern-day threat. Can he remember in time to prevent disaster?

Haunted by the ghosts of his childhood, Dustin doesn’t understand why he is so disconnected to the world. His mother suggests he may find answers by studying their family’s past, which takes him back to:

1934, Harlem—His Great Aunt Rita is a fixer in the numbers racket. She works side by side with Bumpy Johnson and runs the bank for the operation while her family struggles to be accepted in New York because of the color of their skin.

1815, Nevis—Dustin’s early ancestors are split between the planter elite and the slave population. Their actions during these final years of slavery set the tone for the family for years to come.

Dustin uncovers long-suppressed family secrets while he learns about his own problems from the past. Everything comes to a head in Charlottesville, Virginia, when he and his sister participate in a rally that pits White supremacists against all those who oppose them. Can he unlock his memory in time to prevent disaster? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Lost Child

February 28, 2021 By

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.

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The Georgia Express

February 25, 2021 By

April 1862. The Civil War has been raging for a year. Union scout James Andrews hatches a bold plan to end the war go behind enemy lines in Georgia, steal a southern locomotive and bring it north, destroying the rail line and splitting the confederacy in two.

Union soldier John Wilson volunteers for the mission and embarks on a harrowing journey in enemy country to reach the town of Big Shanty. There, the other soldiers steal the locomotive called “The General” and embark a wild chase through the Georgia countryside with “The General”s engineer, Bill Fuller, in hot pursuit. $2.99 on Kindle.

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The DNA of Democracy

February 23, 2021 By

Historical vignettes discerning the future of our democracy by rediscovering the fascinating past of tyranny & democracy. Just as DNA is interwoven in every aspect of the human body, tyranny and democracy have their historically distinctive DNA. From Israel’s Ten Commandments to the overthrow of kings in England & America, he constructs a blueprint of what defines tyranny or democratic government. $0.99 on Kindle.

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We Are Broken

February 19, 2021 By

THE MUST READ HISTORICAL FICTION THRILLER OF THE YEAR

IT’S NOT ONLY WAR THAT CREATES MONSTERS …

The Great War may be over but for disfigured veteran Charlie Hobbs, peace brings its own struggle. Appalled by his gruesome appearance, Hobbs enlists the help of renowned sculptor Francis Derwent Wood, who creates him a lifelike mask to conceal his broken face.

But in yearning for acceptance and a return to the life and the love, he left behind, Hobbs finds the country he fought for shattered by grief; an England in mourning for those who didn’t return.

And he is about discover that it’s not only war that creates monsters.

Demons can lurk deep within; and when they threaten to resurface, everything is at risk. See price on Kindle.

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