Category: Historical Fiction

The Bringer of Happiness

From the award-winning writer and director of The Women’s Jail Project and author of Dancing the Labyrinth, comes an evocative time-travelling tale that unashamedly merges renowned historical characters and events into a spellbinding story of destiny. “I should have assumed with parents known to the world as Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ, I would be different.” Sara is different, for she time travels forward into other people’s bodies. When Sara, whose Aramaic name means ‘bringer of... [Read More...]

Free: The Legend Is Born

This is a pre-prequel to the series Legends of Lainjin. Helkena, a young untattooed woman, having survived a typhoon caring for the young child Lainjin must now travel to Nadik. Her goal is to get her tattoos there and, in time, to find a man to take home to Wotto. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren desert island? Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Rampage at Calico Rock

Trying to move forward into a new future is not always easy when you live in North Central Arkansas following the Civil War… Jonathan came to Arkansas to raise his young son with hopes of escaping the ravages of a divided nation. The North and the South have been at war for what feels like forever and now he desperately tries to build a new life for his family in the Ozark Mountains. But there is something lurking in the dark of this war-torn country. A sinister force obsessed with one thing;... [Read More...]

Glass Ornament Christmas

It is 1896, and this Christmastide is extra special for glass blower Shayla Toselli in Canterbury Corner, England. The town square will have an electrically lit tree, and she has been commissioned to create delicate glass ornaments for the new Duke’s Christmas Eve ball. When former soldier Adam Preston finds himself in the Toselli workshop, he is intrigued by Shayla and glass blowing, and now the unlikely pair must work together in the days leading up to the Christmas Eve ball. This will cert... [Read More...]

Storykeeper

The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando de Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood plains of eastern Arkansas. Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition detailed a complex array of twelve different nations. Each had separate beliefs, languages, and interconnected villages with capital towns comparabl... [Read More...]

Free: Magnus Maximus

Real hero, true events: In 367 AD, an evil genius gets 5 armies to invade Britain, killing 100,000 Britons in what historians call The Great Conspiracy. Meet the man sent to stop them. Magnus Maximus is Latin for Maximum Great – that’s his name – and he’ll become Roman emperor in 383 AD. Enjoy the true story of a larger-than-life killer hero with fatal flaws and lethal aim winning an impossible war under extraordinary circumstances as he leaps off the page and runs for his life. See Rom... [Read More...]

A Captive in Algiers

In the year preceding the French Revolution, an orphan boy named Ettore finds himself at a crossroads. Seeking to add coins to his hidden strongboxes, he sets sail on the Tyrrhenian Sea, embarking on an exhilarating journey that will test his wit, resilience, and survival skills. But little does he know that the stormy seas and Algerian corsairs have other plans for him. As Ettore fights to stay alive, he must confront his own origins, beliefs, and shortcomings. Along the way, he forms unexpect... [Read More...]

The Other Side of the Hayfields

Young John Bailey struggles with taking over his father’s failing farm while neighboring plantation owners bask in prosperity. He seeks a better future but finds only a nation torn apart as the clouds of civil war rise on the horizon. Secretly befriending a slave girl and her brother, he grapples to understand the greed and prejudice among some of the ruling class, including his best friend and becomes entangled in the bitter dispute about slavery. Then one brutal night, John is confronted by... [Read More...]

The Munich Girl

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after WW2, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s wife were friends. Plunged into the dangerous 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. ... [Read More...]