Category: Historical Fiction

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...]

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...]

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...]

Shot down behind enemy lines in Northern Italy, Tuskegee Airman Bob Dale is fighting for survival when a nun and partisan lead him to safety at an orphanage. He arrives just as Nazi SS troops are closing in on seven little Jewish children hidden there. Now Bob’s fight takes on a mission larger than his own life–these children must be saved! This gripping WW2 historical thriller is captivating readers: “I couldn’t put it down”…”inspiring”…... [Read More...]

Set in Sydney, Australia, Memories of Then dances between present day and the summer of ’64, when Elijah Samuels and Audrey Hughes met and fell in love. Decades later, troubled Elijah is informed that Audrey is in a coma, her health declining. He visits her in palliative care, determined to pay his respects and say a final goodbye to a life, love and time he once knew. However, Audrey’s family prove less than welcoming to this cantankerous, blunt stranger. Tensions rise when his pre... [Read More...]

This tale of Historical Fiction begins with Jesse James, but it doesn’t end there. Bob Ford’s split-second decisions bring consequences greater than he could ever have imagined. Read Big Man Judas free June 19 – 23, 2023! Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

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...]