Category: Historical Fiction

My Splendid Concubine

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... [Read More...]

Free: Vinegar Hill Blues

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’... [Read More...]

The Highlander’s Heiress: A Historical Scottish Regency Romance (Castle Brides Book 2)

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 ... [Read More...]

The Unnamed Girl

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’... [Read More...]

Pianist in a Bordello

What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his abs... [Read More...]

Island Queen

“Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive…by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”–The New York Times A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her free... [Read More...]

The Consequence of Anna: An Epic Family Saga About Love, Friendship, Obsession, and Madness

“SHAMED BE THE WOMAN WHO ALLOWETH SUCH A SIN.” – The Amazon #1 Bestseller, inspired by a true story . . . Two cousins share a deep, sisterly love for each other. And a man. One of them will be driven into madness. It’s the year 1930, and Anna May Shahan’s world is about to change. The eccentric housewife from the small woop woop town of Esperance, Australia, lives on an isolated farm by the sea with her loyal husband James, and they lead a simple, hardworking life. That is until Anna�... [Read More...]

The Munich Girl

The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and Hitler’s lover – and untangles a web of long-buried secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: BLOOD OF ROSES

Richard Duke of York lies dead on the battlefield, lured to his death by a false Christmas truce. The House of York has fallen…but not for long. The Lancastrian army of Margaret of Anjou has reaped the whirlwind. Edward of March, Richard’s heir, is coming after them, tall, handsome, and a fearsome warrior…and he wants vengeance and a crown. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]