Category: Historical Fiction

Romancing the Italian Duke

#image_title Darkly handsome, charming, and with a smile as warm as the Italian sun Lady Elisabeth has scandalized her family. She is sent away to live with her aunt in Kent. Soon, she finds herself in love with the scandalous Italian Duke of San Marco. As soon as she sees him, her heart melts at a smile as warm as the land he comes from. With his chiseled cheekbones, sepia eyes, and handsome face, The Duke of San Marco h... [Read More...]

Free: THIS WAY TO THE LIGHT

Daniel Summerhill gets up one day and walks out of his college class. This novel takes place in the chaotic year of 1970 in Greenwich Village. Daniel is confused. He has to face the draft, angry parents, newly-liberated girlfriends, and total uncertainty about his future. Carefully, he decides to explore being a writer. He gets advice and meets a variety of famous and rebellious people. There is the painter who lives in a treehouse, figures in the music business, writers among the Beatniks and ... [Read More...]

The Reluctant Pioneer: Inspired by a True Story

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and their sons embark on a grueling journey westward. Fresh graves testify to dangers of disease, accidents, starvation, and a multitude of hazards threatening her family and her beloved’... [Read More...]

Free: Oedipus by Ralph Burton

Book 9 in the Torn Pages Series “Hello I’m Oedipus Jones. I’m eighteen years old and one day I’m destined to kill my father and have sex with my mother.” In 429 BC Eddie “Oedipus” Jones visits a fortune teller with his friends where they discover their individual terrible destinies. Four years later, when they go to Midas Island for a graduation party, they find themselves at the mercy of two mysterious masked killers in Greek Theatre masks who are out ... [Read More...]

Storykeeper: Epic Historical Saga of Destruction and Survival in 16th Century America

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 floodplains 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 comparable... [Read More...]

The Human Trial

In her latest work, “The Human Trial” author Audrey Gale merges three genres: historical fiction, medical thriller and coming-of-age story, cast with imperfect, relatable characters. After an agonizing climb to earn his pathology specialty from Harvard Medical, early discoveries in the microscopic realms threaten not only Dr. Randall Archer’s hard-won place in the field of medicine, but his very life. As the Great Depression presses down around him, Archer teeters at the edge of a... [Read More...]

Boone’s Chance: An Alternative History, American Revolution, Military Time Travel Novel

Jack Reacher meets The Patriot in this exhilarating time travel alternate history series! With the war all but over, I can now head home to Annie and hang my Pale Rider vest. However, along the way, the son of a dear friends manages to find me. Daniel Boone has gotten himself into a bit of a bind, and when his son comes asking for my help, I cannot say no. Even with a leg injury, I don my black vest, take the mantle of Pale Rider again, only this time, to rescue a friend. But the deck is stacke... [Read More...]

Free: The Conquest of Liberty: Book One, Moors Monarchs & Monks

In an era where the line between faith and power is as thin as a sword’s edge, one man’s journey will define not only his fate but the destiny of a continent. From the bustling streets of Granada to the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean, Miguel’s quest to reach Rome and secure a papal pardon for the archbishop will take him to the farthest corners of the known world. Kidnapped by ruthless pirates, forced to fight in the scorching deserts of North Africa, and entangled in the schemes... [Read More...]