Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the treacherous years of Nazi Germany, she uncovers a web of long-buried family secrets. “Hard to put down. … Harder to forget.” Ink Drop Reviews. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
Free: The Time Arrow
How far would you go to change events in your life? That is the question Peter Danville has to ask himself in The Time Arrow, a new novel from first-time author Samuel Ruggiero.
Peter, a successful trauma surgeon and a Civil War reenactor, is a well-known figure in the Atlanta area. However, it’s his grandfather, Dr. David Danville, who is the true star. He has been making medical discoveries for over four decades. Now, he has made one that will change the course of humanity. But before he can make his research public, his life is tragically taken during a mugging in the parking ramp as he was making his way to give his presentation. Devastated, Peter doesn’t know what to do. He seeks comfort from his wife, Mollie, though the loss of Grandpop, as he is affectionately called by Peter, has caused some dormant conflicts between them to bubble to the surface. Peter then turns to Max Gottlieb, a Physicist and friend of Grandpop, who may have a way to get Grandpop back. So Peter is confronted with that question: How far is he willing to go to change the events of his life? Free on Kindle.
Free: Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour
What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?
Writer’s Digest Awards 2020 Finalist in Mainstream Literary Fiction
Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour. Free on Kindle
Lady Charlotte’s Dilemma
Plain, sensible Lady Charlotte Chalmers is still unwed after two London Seasons. It looks as if she’s destined to dwindle into an unwanted old maid – until the night she encounters Elizabethan vampyre Bess at Vauxhall Gardens and contracts a mysterious illness.
All too soon it becomes apparent to Charlotte that she, too, is now a vampyre. What can she do? To surrender to her urge to feast on human blood would be almost certain social suicide, but on the other hand, a girl needs to eat. And that’s Lady Charlotte’s dilemma.
When the Duke of Dunroth takes an interest in her predicament, things go from bad to worse. Charlotte’s very life is in danger. Only one man – the mysterious yet strangely attractive Count Saxe-Coburg-Dragenhoff – may be able to save her. $2.99 on Kindle.
Bridge to Freedom
Days that shaped a lifetime. Step back into a Black working-class neighborhood. Rich family traditions and vibrant community culture. Follow Violet and Everett Banks through the twists and turns of life from early childhood to their 50th wedding anniversary. Root for them as they secure the often much sought after, yet demanding and often demeaning, jobs, Violet, as a domestic day worker and Everett, a Pullman porter.
Sirma
Sirma has spent the first 18 years of her life as a happy and hardworking Slavic girl in her quiet mountain village. Until she loses her two best friends to a gang of outlaws. The village elders don’t do anything, because they fear the wrath of Hamza Bei – the head outlaw in the area.
Fed up with hiding and keeping silent, Sirma dresses up like a man and takes the lead of her own Haiduk gang dedicated to protecting the weak. She will stand face to face with Hamza Bei and end his tyranny once and for all. But the road she has chosen is long and full of hurdles. Will she survive living and fighting in the mountain? Will she keep her gang from becoming outlaws themselves? And will her comrades accept her once they find out she is a woman?
This is a historical fiction novel about a real historical figure. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Body Under the Sands
Two soldiers recently returned from the Great War are accused of murdering a woman near a small seaside town. They protest their innocence but are convicted on circumstantial evidence and given the death penalty. One of the soldiers begins to suspect the other as guilty. But can he betray his brother in arms who saved his life during the war? Free on Kindle.
Not in America
“Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil.” These words rang out in 1928 in a small town in upstate New York when little four-year-old Evelyn Wilson went missing. A horrible witch hunt ensued that was based on a terrible folk tale known as the blood libel.
Follow the Schatzman’s as their son is accused of the most horrific crime imaginable. This accusation destroys their family and sends their mother and sister on a journey home to Berlin just as the Nazi’s are about to come to power.
Not in America is based on true events. However, the author has taken license in her work, creating a what if tale that could easily have been true. $5.99 on Kindle.
The King’s Seer
Out of her time and lost in a strange land, her only chance of surviving is to see…
Serenity has no idea how she ended up in this place or how to get back home. The only thing she’s got going for her is her very confusing, yet strangely prophetic dreams and a powerless prince who thinks she’s insane. All Serenity wants is to make her way home, but fate has other plans. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Washington’s Headquarters at Valley Forge: A Biography of a National Shrine (Second Edition)
The House used by General Washington at Valley Forge still stands today.
This history honors its simple beauty and sketches some features of the time which gave it form.
Beyond that, it follows the vicissitudes of the building’s post-revolutionary experience, and finally, celebrates the fact that it has survived. Free on Kindle.
Eastbound from Flagstaff
This first installment in an epic trilogy that begins in the 1920s, unique in its purposeful illumination of the human condition and its ideological indifference to God, asks the question: “Why was God silent when I needed him?” Simon’s return to the notion of forgiveness is the catalyst for a new beginning as it reunites Simon to the place he once thought was the impossible dream. The answer for Simon isn’t blowing in the backwinds of his dream chase; rather, it unfolds in the outstretched hand of a villain. $0.99 on Kindle.
Book About a Book
This is a fun review of the publication, Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, written around a hundred years ago by Florence Hartley. I will take a journey through the book and compare the advice given by Ms. Hartley to modern-day advice. Some ideas are still standing such as treating others as you would like to be treated and respecting others’ opinions. However, other statements show the drastic change from the Victorian era to the world we live in today, such as the development of information technology, where, for example, we have the ability to book a hotel from anywhere in the world and read its reviews. Take this trip back in time with me and let’s discover the radical change in the behavior and freedom of women. $2.99 on Kindle.
Book About a Book
This is a fun review of the publication, Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, written around a hundred years ago by Florence Hartley. I will take a journey through the book and compare the advice given by Ms. Hartley to modern-day advice. Some ideas are still standing such as treating others as you would like to be treated and respecting others’ opinions. However, other statements show the drastic change from the Victorian era to the world we live in today, such as the development of information technology, where, for example, we have the ability to book a hotel from anywhere in the world and read its reviews. Take this trip back in time with me and let’s discover the radical change in the behavior and freedom of women. $2.99 on Kindle.
An Earl for Edith
She tried to trap him into marriage. He tried to distract her with a handsome rogue.
Longing for her mother’s approval, Edith agrees to trap an earl against her better judgment, hoping for a chance at the loving marriage she’s always desired. Yet once she meets Miles, she doesn’t have the heart to ruin his happily ever after. $0.99 on Kindle.
Soldiers of Freedom
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. history. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Persimmon Apricot, Gunfighter
After losing everything he held dear to the wickedness of man and the weakness of the law, Persimmon Apricot is a lost soul who places no value on the lives of callous men and little value on his own. Resistant to the label of Gunfighter, he vehemently rejects offers to be a gun for hire, preferring to drift aimlessly to outrun his memories. Free on Kindle.
Free: Say Goodbye and Goodnight
Anthony Marino, a young, up-and-coming fighter, maneuvers through all the pitfalls and minefields that existed in 1977 Brooklyn. Yet beneath the harsh surface, Brooklyn offered much more. It was the time of disco, the music that liberated a generation. And through it all, Anthony found his one true love, Gia. Theirs was an epic love affair, one that drew envy and hatred. Say Goodbye and Goodnight is the story of their love for each other and the perils that waited for them behind every corner. Free on Kindle.
The Seduction of the Glen
A fierce Highland warrior, loyal to his king. His beautiful English captive. He has vowed her protection, but will he have to risk his own life to do so?
John Sinclair, faithful warrior for Robert the Bruce, makes a fateful wager with his brother: whoever wins Aislynn’s affections will wed her. Only Aislynn de Valence, niece to the English King, is a captive of the Bruce, sent to the Highlands as a prisoner and for her own protection. The last thing she wants is to wed her enemy.
To win the wager and the woman, John woos Aislynn with his whole heart.
But the Highlands are unstable, clan fighting against clan. And no one in the Highlands is ready to welcome an Englishwoman into their midst.
When Aislynn learns that she was nothing more than a prize in a wager, she decides she’s had enough of Scotland and its Highlanders.
Can John convince Aislynn of his true intentions and protect her when she needs him the most? $3.99 on Kindle.
The Cause of Darkness – A Story of the Civil War
The Cause of Darkness’ is the story of a 16-year-old boy named Teddy Miller set during the last full-year of the American Civil War. Teddy lives with his father and brother in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They lead more-or-less normal lives even while the War rages around them. But everything changes when their farm is burned, and Teddy’s father is arrested and sentenced to hang for espionage. Teddy’s single-minded quest to save his father reads like a grand adventure, full of gun fights, horse chases and 19th century justice. There is even a beautiful Pinkerton detective who plays a major role in Teddy’s exploits. But nearly all the adult characters act solely in their own self-interest and few have Teddy’s welfare at heart. Left without adult guidance, Teddy takes actions to save his father which have consequences that he cannot fully comprehend; and it is the consequences of these actions that drive the novel to its conclusion. $4.99 on Kindle.
The Duke’s Last Dance
A childish infatuation, a special dance and a sentimental brooch…
Catherine Radcliffe is the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Camberton and she is set to make her debut at the upcoming London Season. Catherine is swept off her feet by the dashing Duke of Hestina. But when her childhood sweetheart returns to London after he vanished three years ago, it stirs up old childhood feelings. Catherine is left conflicted as to whether what she feels for Nicholas is merely an old childish infatuation.
Nicholas Lockhart, the Marquess of Gracemere, has spent the last three years serving in the English military. He returns to London after receiving news that his father has fallen ill. When Nicholas sees Catherine again, it stirs up old feelings and he comes to the realization that he is still in love with her.
Will Catherine and Nicholas be able to explore their old feelings for each other or will outside forces prevent them from ever finding out? $0.99 on Kindle.
Lady in Ermine
The Burden of Sweetberry
Candida “Sweetberry” Armstrong, a beautiful and vain woman, pits good against evil in her adulterous relationship with Deacon Josiah Hess. For twenty years, she’s been the mistress of the married man. Out of respect for him, the community has turned a blind eye. But a new man comes to town and Sweetberry is smitten. Luther McGill is everything she ever wanted in a man, and he wants her. She ends the affair with Deacon Hess and sets about planning her new life with Luther. Then the unthinkable happens! Deacon Hess murders Luther on the church ground in front of a crowd of witnesses. Sweetberry is thrown into the abyss, and her journey to redemption takes many twists and turns. Among them are nightly hauntings by Luther and the threat of insanity. “The Burden of Sweetberry” is set in the fictional town of Sipsey, Alabama, in the 1960s and features aspects of the African-American culture common for that time, including the style of speaking, humor, worship, $0.99 on Kindle.
When Valleys Bloom Again
After fleeing impending war in England, nineteen-year-old Abby Stapleton works to correct her stammer and to become a teacher in America, only to discover this conflict has no boundaries and that a rejected suitor is intent on destroying her name and her fiancé.
Abby finds it hard to pray or read the Bible. Did she leave God behind in war-torn London too? $2.99 on Kindle.
Avenging Angels: Guns of Legion
SADDLE UP FOR THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HEART-POUNDING, BULLET-BURNING, BIBLE-THUMPING WESTERN SERIES!
There’s a monster in Lone Jack, Wyoming, and when Reno Bass and his twin sister, Sara, arrive to collect the bounty on the beast’s head, all hell breaks loose. When the smoke from the twins’ ’58 Remington cap and ball revolvers clear, a dying tattooed man threatens them with the guns of Legion.
Taken prisoner at Chronicle Rock by a giant named Elisha and the mysterious Charlie Bratt, King of Swallows, Reno and Sara are led to the Bar Seven ranch where Mendelssohn Jobe’s twisted circus is camped. Ranch owner Ben Huddleston has a soft spot for Sara that’s not forgiving enough to overlook the tattooed man’s murder. After fighting a machete-crazed wildling named Lillith and wrestling a lion, the twins escape from the Bar Seven and resume their hunt for the beast.
But at the Bar Seven, Mendelssohn Jobe takes over the ranch in a vicious midnight attack. Huddleston needs Reno and Sara’s gun hands to save the day. Leading the stricken Rancher in a guerrilla war against the deadly menagerie, Reno and Sara race the clock to reclaim the ranch and save a dead man’s widow from a heinous fate. $0.99 on Kindle.