Category: Historical Fiction

Joshua and the Chosen People

Joshua has inherited leadership of the Israelites and the divine imperative to provide them a homeland entirely their own. Before him, Jericho and the nations of Canaan glimmer with arms, wealth and impure blood. Can the soft-hearted Joshua clean away the pagans? Can his virtue persevere in the face of Israel’s fearsome destiny? Can the Chosen People remain good so long as they remain chosen? Joshua and the Chosen People is a fictional retelling of the conquest of the Holy Land. Firmly co... [Read More...]

Delicatus

The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow’s Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history’s wildest characters. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from “puer delicatus” to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess i... [Read More...]

City of Liars

When the Inquisition holds its first public execution in Barcelona, it draws a Catholic heiress and a Jewish navigator into a secret alliance to smuggle would-be targets to safety by sea. As the rescue mission unfolds, a forbidden love blooms between them. Will their heart-stopping escape plan outfox the vicious regime, or will it cost their lives? $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: The Legend Is Born

This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is Wotto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Lainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction. Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Namdik, a wet atoll in the ... [Read More...]

My Mother’s Friend 

The year is 1944 Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mothers death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is friendship with a German POW who shares her passion for music. After she is recruited as the accompanist for the POW choir, Phee begins to spend more time with her new friend who she initi... [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 Dukes Christmas Eve ball. When former soldier Adam Preston finds himself in the Toselli workshop, he is intrigued by Shayla and glass blowing. Now, the unlikely pair must work together in the days leading up to the Christmas Eve ball. This will certainly ... [Read More...]