Inspired by a headline about French bakeries shuttering, Les Beaux Châteaux is the story of a father and son who must learn a new way forward as traditional French life evolves. Free on Kindle.
Free: Les Beaux Châteaux
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Free: The Treasure Galleons: Prequel to The Golden Age of Pyracy Series
April 12, 2022 By
In the Age of Sail, a captain’s son is left to confront pirates, cannibals, and an angry king after a hurricane devastates his family and their fleet carrying $400 million in treasure. The true story of 1715 Spanish shipwrecks that gave Florida its “Treasure Coast” – as told in the multi-award-winning screenplay. Full-color illustrations. Free on Kindle.
A Widow of Bath Trilogy
April 12, 2022 By
A woman in a man’s world, fighting to survive.
A mother, seeking her missing son.
An avenger of murdered innocents.
Against a corrupt church, arrogant nobles, biased judges and lethal assassins, what can one woman do?
If she is Alyson, weaver of Bath, widow of experience, mistress of contacts to the unseen, dismissed and ignored of turbulent, medieval England, rather a lot.
Three books in one volume.
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Operation Teardrop
April 12, 2022 By
Losing the war, Hitler turns to his miracle weapons to hurt the Americans anyway he can. In the last days of the Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler sends a wolfpack of U-boats to launch V-2 rockets in an attack on New York City.
Operation Teardrop tells the strange but true story of this final desperate attempt to win the war.
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Free: Lemon Sugar Series
April 8, 2022 By
After the Great War is over, Etta, Cali, and Lucy get handed a bitter lemon- poverty, grief, and despair. As they piece their lives together, they find strength in sisterhood. The love between them becomes the sugar that makes the lemon sweet.
If you love women’s historical fiction with a strong female lead, small town romance and a twist of bliss… lemon sugar is the series for you.
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The King’s Favorite
April 1, 2022 By
The King’s Favorite is a mystery thriller set during one of the most spirited, scandalous, and memorable periods in English history—the Restoration—when the son of an executed king brought monarchy back to England after the repressive years of the Commonwealth. Following the coronation of Charles II came a reopening of the theaters, with the first women performing on the English public stage. What follows is a devastating London plague and fire, a monarch who openly indulged his sexual proclivities, a series of plots against the crown, and the first true collection of female celebrities—as actresses, mistresses, and even orange girls. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Model Spy
March 31, 2022 By
THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. As the war entered its final stages, she faced off against the most brutal of forces—Germany’s Intelligence Service, the Abwehr. $6.99 on Kindle.
Free: Beyond the Pettus Bridge
March 30, 2022 By
A fire rages. Children race to escape the woods being devoured by flames. A white man in a white robe is carried away on a stretcher. Claire, a young, Yankee teacher, and her new husband, Bruce, move from Detroit to Selma, Alabama in 1969 when he joins the Air Force. It doesn’t take long for Claire to realize there’s more to this town than meets the eye, but she has her own issues to overcome: a miscarriage, family drama, connecting with her students, and settling into social beckonings in the Deep South. This historical novel about teaching and learning also a heart-wrenching and heart-warming family story about newlyweds, new beginnings, new friends, and risky ideals. Claire will have to decide what’s more important: fitting in and settling down, or joining the underground sisterhood fight against segregation and racism – Fems for Freedom. Free on Kindle.
Answering Liberty’s Call
March 30, 2022 By
In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight.
As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her loved ones face starvation at Valley Forge, she refuses to sit idly by.
Armed with life-sustaining supplies, Anna strikes out alone on horseback over 200 miles of rough and dangerous terrain. Despite perilous setbacks along the way, sheer determination carries her toward her destination. When she learns of a plot to overthrow General Washington, her mission becomes more important than ever. With the fate of the American Revolution in her hands and one of the conspirators hot on her trail, Anna races to deliver a message of warning to Valley Forge before it’s too late.
Based on events in the life of the author’s sixth-great-grandmother.
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Free: Confidence John
March 23, 2022 By
A coded journal. A buried treasure. A dangerous journey.
In the early 1800s, as the Spanish surrender Florida to the United States government, Emily Bisset reunites with her estranged mother Simone to solve a family mystery and seek revenge on the man who abandoned them both: Confidence John.
As they make their way to the southern coast, intending to enter the legendary poker game run by Emily’s con-man father, they encounter escaped slaves, Seminole warriors, Florida patriots, and Spanish missionaries — some friend, some foe, some both.
Soon another mystery presents itself: who is the stranger that pursues them, and how does she know so much about their quest?
Confidence John is a stand-alone novel by Harmony Reed. Fans of Daughter of Fortune and The Sisters Brothers will feel right at home with Confidence John. Free on Kindle.
Running with Cannibals
March 22, 2022 By
Four people caught within the grip of war and the greed of domination. One will die. One will find himself by learning that truth stands alone, wears no flag, and employs no spokesman. the other two will live forever, legends in the minds and hearts of the Philippine people. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Maid of Baikal
March 21, 2022 By
What if a Siberian Joan of Arc had rescued the White Army at a critical point of the Russian Civil War in 1919?
MAID OF BAIKAL presents an alternative outcome to the war, vividly portraying its violence, bitterness and hardship, while telling the inspirational story of a determined young woman who perseveres in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
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Murder on the Death Railway
March 21, 2022 By
Two brutally murdered victims are found in an abandoned WW II Federal internment facility for Japanese Americans. One is a beautiful young Japanese housewife married to a local man. The other is a former POW from the Pacific Theater of war, a survivor of the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway.
FBI Agent Nelson Paine has been assigned to the investigation. Experience tells him the bloodshed has just begun. Get a copy and find out if Paine can catch the killer! $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Murder on the San Juan Express
March 18, 2022 By
Johann Mueller, a German born physicist was a scientist for the U.S. Department of War. Traveling on the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s famed San Juan Express, Mueller dies under mysterious circumstances.
With World War II raging and foreign spies operating in the United States, FBI Special Agent Nelson Paine is assigned the sensitive task of uncovering the truth about Mueller’s death.
Find out if Agent Paine is up to the task! Free on Kindle.
Free: After the Voyage
March 15, 2022 By
Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870, having survived Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never goes away. They raise three children in the midst of Irish American culture, the Catholic Church, and Richard’s battles for the workingman in the Knights of Labor. Their daughter Mary dreams of being a nun, while Josie seeks the freedom of big-city life in Boston. Neither reckons on the future she will face. Son Tom escapes factory life by joining the Navy, manages to see the world in the midst of two wars, and comes home to marry his sweetheart and start a new life in California. After the Voyage tells a story that is both remarkable and familiar to everyone whose ancestors made their way to and in America. Free on Kindle.
Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora
March 15, 2022 By
Born into poverty, Theodora transforms from actress to prostitute to mistress to Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. In this male dominated world, she shrewdly navigates wars, political crises, a citywide rebellion, and a world plague pandemic. “A gorgeous tapestry of impeccable research and intricate world-building.” ~Author Kate Quinn $0.99 on Kindle.
Lost Child
March 12, 2022 By
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train. Placed out as a farm laborer, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. How did she survive? $3.99 on Kindle.
The Emperor’s Servant
March 11, 2022 By
Rome. 23 BCE. In the depths of serious illness, the Emperor Augustus calls upon Republican Lucius Sestius. To Lucius’ consternation, he is catapulted into office just at a time when a pestilence is sweeping through Italy. Thousands of people are dying and the River Tiber is riding dangerously high.
But Lucius finds himself not only fighting floods and an epidemic. A conspiracy is forming, centered on Lucius’ friend Aulus and the respected Primus, hero of the war in Macedonia. The Emperor feels threatened and Lucius is expected to choose sides… $0.99 on Kindle.
Heimat
March 3, 2022 By
Emigrating to the US to find a better future in America in 1929 Matthias Schmidt’s dream to return to Neisse, his Heimat, as a successful American citizen changed when he saved the life of an American diplomat in Berlin’s Bahnhof. His heroic act established a friendship with the diplomat and three other German emigrants that sustained them through misconceptions of the American dream, the Great Depression, assimilation into American culture, and WW II. However, the war severed contact with Matthias’s family and sent him and his friends on separate paths. To a shipyard to build ships to carry the means of destruction to Germany and his Heimat. Into the US Army to fight in the Pacific after surviving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Conscription into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France, Russia, and fight in the Battle of the Bulge against American forces. And the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. $4.99 on Kindle.
Soldiers of Freedom
February 28, 2022 By
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. $0.99 on Kindle.
My Splendid Concubine
February 27, 2022 By
Based on a True Story. After arriving in China in 1854, Robert Hart falls in love with Ayaou, but his feelings for her sister go against the teachings of his Wesleyan-Christian upbringing. To survive he must learn how to live and think like the Chinese and soon finds himself thrust into China’s Opium Wars, where he makes an enemy with
an American soldier of fortune known as the Devil Soldier. In time, Hart becomes the only foreigner the emperor of China trusts, and he plays a crucial role in ending the bloodiest rebellion in history. He owes his success largely to Ayaou, his Chinese concubine.
“Readers interested in unconventional romances in an out of
the ordinary setting will find plenty to enjoy.” – Nanette Donohue Historical Novel Society
“Highly recommended!” – Midwest Book Review
This novel is also available through Kindle Unlimited and has had more than 444,560 page reads. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Vinegar Hill Blues
February 26, 2022 By
A wounded musician shipped home from WWII finds his mother has died and his old Brooklyn neighborhood obliterated by a housing project. Always poor, he now wants to succeed as a jazz musician but he also wants money. He thinks the only path open to him is to rejoin his prewar friends and become a thief. One of those buddies, now a cop, makes the decision easy.
There is a moment in the first chapter of Wayne Clark’s historical fiction novel VINEGAR HILL BLUES that literally takes one’s breath away
— Shari Simpson for IndieReader
A sense of melancholic charm and humor laces the narrative as the pages flow past in the blink of an eye.
–Readers Favorite review
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The Highlander’s Heiress: A Historical Scottish Regency Romance (Castle Brides Book 2)
February 26, 2022 By
She’s a strong-willed heiress. He’s a powerful lord with a secret. Tempers and passion collide. Yvette Stapleton has no need for a husband. Ever. Possessed of a fortune,
she’s determined to forge her own future without matrimony’s confining bonds. Besides, she’s yet to meet a man who doesn’t find her wealth more alluring than her. Until she meets Ewan, the Viscount Sethwick, that is. Ewan, also Laird McTavish of Craiglocky Keep, has one last mission before resigning his position as a covert agent: to oust a War Office traitor. He’ll stop at nothing to succeed. Except exploit Yvette, the vixen who captured his interest months ago. As peril mounts, they flee to Scotland, the only place Ewan is confident he can keep Yvette safe. However, on the journey, dangerous circumstances force them into assuming the role of a married couple. Incensed upon discovering the marriage is legal under Scottish law, Yvette is determined to have
the union annulled. But Ewan’s just as resolute she’ll remain his wife… $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Pink Mutiny
February 25, 2022 By
With 4.2 stars in Goodreads, THE PINK MUTINY has ranked in the top 100 of Women’s Historical Fiction, Historical European Romance and Historical Thriller for the past two months.
Her man carries terrifying secrets. But if she escapes, will the world treat her with any more kindness?
1857. Forced to flee her abusive husband in the dead of night, Amelia Lawrence is determined never to let him touch her again. But her frantic exodus falters when she stops to help an enigmatic local woman, and ends up alone in a foreign land, reliant on the trust of a stranger. And with the bloody Sepoy Mutiny raging in India, the strongminded Brit is now stuck in a country at war with her own.
But the refugee finds herself emotionally conflicted when she catches the eye of a wealthy businessman.
Will she find refuge in the arms of a new lover before her time runs out; or will her political passions betray her heart’s desire?
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The Unnamed Girl
February 21, 2022 By
In the fog of battle, Confederate Private Woody Woodard stumbles across a gold-cased ambrotype of a little girl near the body of a dead Union soldier. Somehow she becomes his only respite from the nighttime demons of war that torture him. He must find her.
An award-winning historical novel, The Unnamed Girl is the saga about one soldier’s quest for peace and purpose. And love. It’s 1862 in Virginia, and Woody has no more stomach for war. He leave his comrades temporarily to find the girl’s family, return the likeness, and give witness to how her father fell in battle.
$2.99 on Kindle.
