Category: Historical Fiction

Left Behind: A gripping WW2 Historical Fiction Novel

What would you give someone who saved your life? Amsterdam 1945: During the last few months of WW2, Louise, a young mother living in Amsterdam, is hiding a Jewish girl with a baby in her attic. Her husband is on the run from the Nazis. Louise is cold, hungry, scared and has no way of knowing who to trust. Will she be able to keep herself and her baby safe? Fast-forward to 2018 and Sarah, Louise’s granddaughter, has just lost her mum. When she travels back home to sort out her mother’... [Read More...]

Fallout of War: Ukraine Year Two

Fallout of War: Ukraine: Year Two Kindle Edition by H. Peter Alesso (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 2 of 3: Fallout of War The desperate fight for survival has given way to something harder: a grinding war of attrition where victory is measured in meters, and the question is no longer whether Ukraine will fall but whether the West will lose patience first. Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks has earned his place among Ukrainian special forces. His drone operations reshape battles and bloo... [Read More...]

Sarita

Inspired by her own family’s roots in the Wild Horse Desert, the story follows a fearless young woman, Sarita, determined to seek justice for her brother’s murder when no one else will — not even the Texas Rangers. As Sarita sets off alone across the Rio Grande to confront his killer, she faces everything from tequila smugglers to snakes to revolutionaries. With Sarita, Natalie brings a powerful, female-led voice to a setting and era often romanticized but rarely shown from the perspectiv... [Read More...]

Talmadge Farm

It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers – one white, one Black – who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of his tenant farmers, a brutal attack between his son and the sharecropper children sets off a chain of events that leaves no one unscathed. Over the span of a deca... [Read More...]

Aliza in Nazi-Land

The Holocaust may be over, but for sixteen-year-old Aliza Auman, the death of Adolf Hitler brings no peace. Adopted by a fellow survivor and given a new life in America, Aliza cannot escape the ghosts of her past: the parents she lost, the memories stolen from her, and the future that was taken from her in Europe. A life of comfort is no solace—she wants revenge. When an angel offers her a chance for vengeance, Aliza is thrust into a terrifying role as a warden in Hell. Given dominion over th... [Read More...]

Free: Charade With a Duke

A maid’s secret. A duke’s heart. A love neither was meant to find. In Regency England, a woman named Annabelle, has lived her life as a maid with calloused hands and quiet dreams of a better life. But when an unexpected opportunity to charade as her mistress appears, she decides to step into a world of candlelight, whispers, and dangerous alliances. Then she meets Nicholas, the Duke of Everstone, a man she could never have hoped to love as Annabelle. The Duke finds himself falling i... [Read More...]

Whistling Women and Crowing Hens

It’s the 1920s, and Birdie Stauffer is whistling on a train-traveling roadshow. To escape her strait-laced overbearing sister, Birdie auditions for the all-female Versatile Quintet, Chautauqua circuit’s opening act. Through the roadshow she experiences the tumultuous 1920s, a modern era of shocking flappers and smuggled whiskey, with the camaraderie of newfound friends. Her exceptional gift of concert whistling entertains more than songbirds as she gains national notoriety and she’s soon ... [Read More...]

Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County

With a victorious end to the Civil War, Parson, a newly emancipated USCT soldier, returns to a volatile Virginia. His quest for true freedom clashes with the violent resistance of a society clinging to white supremacy. Mentored by fellow soldiers and driven by love for his family, Parson must navigate political betrayal and racial terror to transform legal emancipation into a tangible reality, building a legacy of land ownership, education, and political power for his community. The Return To S... [Read More...]

Buckskin Brigades

Honor. Spirit. Survival. A story of the Blackfeet Nation. “A thriller … [which has] an enthusiasm, even a freshness and a sparkle, decidedly rare in this type of romance.”—New York Times Greed crossed the mountains. Honor stood its ground. 1806. A young republic just three decades old—the United States of America—is preparing to press westward across the Mississippi, into a land as wild as it is breathtaking: a territory of towering mountains and violent rivers, icy glaciers and sea... [Read More...]

When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials refuse to reveal her origins. She leaves her strict, Catholic upbringing behind and emerges int... [Read More...]