Historical Fiction Archives

Hamilton’s Choice

June 30, 2020 By eReader Nation

Treachery, political intrigue, and gut-wrenching drama…you know his name but do you know his story?

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the founding of a nation, Hamilton’s Choice chronicles the tragic untold final years of Alexander Hamilton’s life.

And with politics, It was then as it is now: turbulent, violent, and often deadly. And when a tragedy strikes, Hamilton learns of how one simple choice can ruin a man’s livelihood forever. Read this sweeping tale of an American hero: torn between love for his family and his commitment to his country. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, kindle books, politicalthriller

Free: Persimmon Apricot, Gunfighter

June 23, 2020 By eReader Nation

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books, western, westernthriller

Free: One Night With Finnbar

June 20, 2020 By eReader Nation

Suppose for a moment that you go to a party with someone you think you know, but really don’t.

You have a good time; drink too much; maybe do some drugs…. At the end of the evening, your friend takes you back to your place where during the night something unthinkable happens to you.

The next morning the police are at your front door. They arrest you because a dead body was found in your trash can.

Not so hard to imagine, right? It could happen to anyone.

It happened to Finnbar 250 years ago.

TIMELESS and COMPELLING — One Night With Finnbar is a historical drama set in 1767. This richly woven tale of treachery, blackmail, and murder exposes the grotesque realities of life in 18th century London in a way that can never be forgotten. (For mature audiences.) Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicaldrama, historicalfiction, historicalthriller, kindle books, mystery

The Munich Girl

June 20, 2020 By eReader Nation

The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the war, 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 challenged. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” $2.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historical, historicalfiction, kindle books

The Cause of Darkness – A Story of the Civil War

June 17, 2020 By eReader Nation

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: action adventure, civil war, historicalfiction, History, kindle books

Lady in Ermine

June 10, 2020 By eReader Nation

Romance, hardship, bankruptcy, and a legacy of hundreds of paintings that still influence today’s artists. Her name was Sofonisba Anguissola. This is the authentic and untold story of what it was like to be a woman of ambition in the Renaissance. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books, renaissance

The Burden of Sweetberry

June 4, 2020 By eReader Nation

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: africanamericanculture, historicalfiction, History, kindle books

Jane Digby’s Diary

June 2, 2020 By eReader Nation

Escape to another time and place with delightful Jane Digby. Three volumes of JANE DIGBY’S DIARY are now available for your reading pleasure. $2.99 on Kindle

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: kindle books

Avenging Angels: Guns of Legion

June 1, 2020 By eReader Nation

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.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books, western, westernfiction

Free: The Secret Heir

May 27, 2020 By eReader Nation

Years before, David was anointed future king of Israel. Now if the sitting king learns of his secret, it will mean death for David and everyone in his family. His secret destiny becomes more complicated when he falls in love with King Saul’s daughter, Michal. He will do whatever it takes to secure her heart, provided she doesn’t find out that he is the rumored rival to her father’s throne. Free on Kindle

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historicalfiction, kindle books

Rancho Diablo Western Series Omnibus

May 25, 2020 By eReader Nation

SUDDEN DEATH, HELLFIRE AND GUNSMOKE…

West Texas Army Scout Sam Blaylock rode into the small town of Shooter’s Cross looking for deserters, not trouble. Now Sam is putting down roots with his wife and daughter, and no amount of evil can stand in the way.

Secure in their out-of-the-way stronghold, the proprietors of the criminal enterprises never planned on a man like Sam Blaylock—a man who would face the Devil himself to balance the scales. Sam never backed down from a bad situation.

Rancho Diablo Western Series: Omnibus includes – Shooter’s Cross, Hell On Wheels, The Hold Up, The Matamoros Bull, The Armadillo’s Hole Saloon and Shooter York. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books, western

Trouble at Every Turn (A Slim Calhoun, Bull Morrison Western Book 3)

May 24, 2020 By eReader Nation

United States Marshal Bull Morrison and his deputy, Slim Calhoun, are sent to investigate and stop a threat to the new United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada. The alleged threat includes blowing up the mint and both men believe the real threat is an attempt to steal the first delivery of gold and silver coins.

The marshals are hindered in their investigation by a detail of federal treasury agents from the Washington, D.C. area, sent as protection as the mint is built. They bring with them all of the arrogance of the country’s capitol, don’t believe the marshals, and are not prepared for an attempted robbery or explosion…

Attempted escapes, gunfights, chases across the great Nevada desert, even the destruction of the Warm Springs Resort, finally brings everyone to either their death or their capture. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historicalfiction, kindle books, politicalthriller

American Brush-Off

May 22, 2020 By eReader Nation

Labeled a “dangerous enemy alien” in his hometown, Lud Mueller learns how government agents are out to tear apart his senior year in high school.

It’s 1942, and the clouds of fear have gathered into the storms of bigotry throughout the United States. Innuendo has replaced due process.

Returning from a summer camp job, Lud discovers the F.B.I. has legally kidnapped his parents. Intellect, rather than his considerable athletic prowess, is necessary to help him survive the Crystal City, Texas Internment Camp where he and his brother reunite with their parents. Lud can’t afford to make mistakes with his family’s safety on the line. He can’t even stomach to tell his girlfriend, Betty.

Not only does he have to outwit Nazi sympathizers, he has to deal with the real reason for his family’s imprisonment—something the government has hidden from everyone. After the war ends, the threat of deportation to a devastated Germany looms for years to come. His five-year-long ordeal changes Lud’s outlook on conflict and people.

Japanese-Americans were not the only people interned by the American government during World War II. $2.99 on Kindle

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction, In the Spotlight Tagged With: historicalfiction, kindle books, WWII

Free: Phoenix: By The Sword

May 22, 2020 By eReader Nation

18-year-old Germanic princess, Cassius, witnessed the destruction of her village by the Romans. Now, she is being made to serve a Roman Senator as his slave. During the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in nine A.D., Cassius is forcefully abducted again but this time by an unknown soldier, named Sgt. Banks. Banks tells her that she is the key to his mission, which is to stop the death of millions. And even though Banks has the build and abilities of a Roman soldier, he is not a centurion. In fact, he is not a soldier of her time at all.

Neither Banks nor Cassius foresees that the stress from their journey has the potential of bringing out their previously contained inner demons, but it does. And when they are tested the most, their newfound feelings for each other could be their undoing and mankind’s as well. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books, romans

Out of the Rabbit Hutch

May 22, 2020 By eReader Nation

This is a story of freedom, risk, and unspoken truths; a time before and after the American Civil War and the eradication of the Aboriginal people in Van Diemen’s Land (today’s Tasmania). Populated by socialites, opium users, slave hunters, and war heroes, the novel chronicles the remarkable tale of a Civil War veteran, unable to speak and still seemingly broken from the war, he is released from a mental asylum and begins his journey. $2.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: historicalfiction, History, kindle books

Free: Whispers Among The Prairie

May 21, 2020 By eReader Nation

Journey across the prairie lands of The American West where you will find adventure, conflict, loyalty, family and romance. Don’t delay. You won’t regret it. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Historical Fiction Tagged With: americanwest, historicalfiction, History, kindle books

Dearest Mother and Dad

May 21, 2020 By eReader Nation

Corpsman Orrin Connor’s faithful letters with a touching twist shield his parents from the horrors of war. His buddy Rawley Armstrong’s poignant letters give his sister the harrowing truths. $1.99 on Kindle.