Category: Historical Fiction

Winter’s Reckoning

Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has no use for ideas like “separation of the races” or “men as the superior sex.” There are many in her dying Southern Appalachian town who are upset by her socially progressive views, but for years—partly due to her late husband’s still-powerful influence, and partly due to her skill as a healer in a remote town with no doctor of its own—folks have been willing to turn a blind eye to her “transgressions.” Even Maddie’s decision to take ... [Read More...]

The Little Cottage in the Pines

In a delightful holiday story that stretches through eras, generations and families, the author cleverly connects historically based stories into one continuing tale built around a snow globe that comes to be passed along. Through it, the reader discovers a window into the lives and souls of those who once owned the precious item and eventually propelled it forward from the 18th century until the present time. Filled with humor and warm sentiment as well as stirring situations with which we all... [Read More...]

Martha’s Cove

The only survivor of a 1800s shipwreck, Polly was barely old enough to speak when she was rescued off Marthas Cove, Nova Scotia. Her adoptive family named her after the cove, forbidding her speaking of her former life. A hard-scrabble life awaits her, saved only by her new brother, Joseph. Meanwhile, her grandfather, who had sent for his English daughters family to come to the New World, is tormented by the shipwreck. After fifteen years, are their paths destined to cross? $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

England’s Martyr

1010 AD: England is dying, its people brutalized and its lands ravaged after wave after wave of Norse invaders. King Ethelred does little but sit on his throne, haunted by his troubled past and easy prey for his manipulative advisors, leaving his subjects to fend for themselves. Unwilling to stand by and do nothing, a famous Ealdorman, Ulfcytel of Eastengle, has gathered an army, ready to fight and die rather than capitulate to the latest invader: a brutal “Jomsviking” warlord known... [Read More...]

Free: Way of the Viper: The Samurai Cowboys – Book Two

Way of the Viper Cade Wilson is a troubled man. The shadows of his past are haunting him, and he knows he must make things right––but he feels so far away from where he started and no closer to where his heart belongs. As Viper, he was one of three elite warriors trained by a deadly samurai from Japan to fight in the service of their Benefactor, and honor bound to expand and defend their master’s landholdings in the New Mexico Territory. Then Cade experienced love and a glimpse of the nor... [Read More...]

Free: When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story

“A surprisingly hopeful look at how betrayal, loss, and guilt can change the lives of a community and shape history” –Booklife This fact-based historical novel takes us beyond the witch trials to tell a larger story of what happened in Salem Village. In 1692, Ann Putnam is a central figure in the trials that bring devastation to the village and deep divisions among its people . Five years later, in love and eager to marry, Joseph Green takes on the ministry that no one else wants and ... [Read More...]

Iron Scars : A Novel of the Spartan Empire

WHAT IF SPARTA RULED AN EMPIRE? In this action-packed, alternate-history fantasy, the Spartans wage war in an attempt to suppress a rebellion that has spread to every corner of their empire. Meanwhile, beyond the empire’s reach, powerful yagar warriors live divided. But when Spartans kidnap a certain female for the Emperor, one yagar sets out to do the unthinkable in order to save her. And as a rebel leader approaches the hostile yagars to enlist their help against the empire, two world... [Read More...]

Free: Moonlight Runner

In 1920, rum running could make a man rich. It could also get him dead. Garrett O’Donnell was willing to take the risk. Bentley Chance is a retired lieutenant with over thirty years at a mid-size Washington police department. His assignments included patrol, traffic, street crimes, S.W.A.T. and narcotics followed by commands in every division of the department. Although fictional, his books are heavily influenced by extensive training and experience. With the exception of certain historic... [Read More...]