Her Patriotic Duty: An emotional and gripping WW2 historical novel (On the Home Front Book 1) by Rosie Meddon (Canelo Saga) (836 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

In a world of secrets, can Esme find the courage to be her true self? Happily in love, Esme Colborne is about to marry Richard Trevannion, descendant of one of the oldest families in England. But when Esme learns she is adopted - from a working class family - she cannot allow Richard to marry so far beneath his station. Fleeing the life she knew, a chance encounter leads Esme to work as a 'decoy woman', testing British undercover operatives who may otherwise reveal secrets in a moment of weakness. As dangerous as it is thrilling, she is soon captivated by this world of subterfuge - one wrong move, however, and Esme could lose everything. With her feelings for Richard as strong as ever, should she go back to him and reveal the truth of her birth? Is she brave enough to risk having her heart broken again? An enthralling Second World War saga for fans of Rosie Archer and Annie Murray.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Highlander’s Hidden Truths: A Medieval Historical Romance Novel by Eloise Madigan (145 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

He needs her trust, but can she trust her brother's murderer? Lady Heather Owens grew up with one notion: the Scots are the enemy. This is encouraged by the recent murder of her brother, for her father insists that the Scottish healer killed him. Yet, when she visits him in the dungeons, she has a change of heart... Known for his healing capabilities, Laird Owen McCulloch is abducted by the English Earl to save his son. But no healer could save a man who was already on his way to the otherworld. Despite being accused by her own father, Heather believes Owen when he argues his innocence. Risking her life to free him, they have to flee and stay together to avoid her father's wrath. But her brother's dying words will haunt them both... and his secret is stashed in a Scottish woman's heart... Highlander's Hidden Truths is a steamy Scottish historical romance novel of 60,000 words (around 300 pages). No cheating, no cliffhangers, lots of steam and a happy ending.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Out of the Rough: 'The McComas Trilogy' - Book 2 by Lee Carey (Sandfiddler Publishing) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 32 minutes ago

Keith DeLong and polio-stricken best friend, Flea, overcame individual hurdles in the first novel, 'If Bullfrogs Had Wings'. This sequel is set two years later and contains more events of striving against the odds to get 'Out of the Rough'. Family, friendship, and mountain-grown determination bring one individual out of the darkness to grasp the rainbow of his dreams. Keith's life is smashed by a series of terrible trials out of his control. watches his dreams smashed by a series of events, out of his control. This historical novel shows the life of an eighteen-year-old dealing with harsh realities and making tough choices for his family. Obstacles ranging from loss, fear, abandoning dreams, and a dance with death are much more than Keith ever imagined. Life deals the cards - Keith plays them. With mountain-grown determination, he overcomes and reaches his dream. This is fully realized as he and Flea walk side-by-side on the green grass of victory. This trilogy is my personal ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Paul Larsh An Original Frontiersman by Jeffery Larsh (246 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Paul was a young French Canadian drawn to a life in the wilderness and trained in the ways of the Wendat and the Shawnee. His dream was to be a coureur de bois, and in 1753, he left his home in Montreal and traveled alone by canoe to the western frontier of New France. Alice was a young woman of English descent living in the remote Jackson River settlement near Fort Dinwiddie, Virginia. In 1756, she was captured by a raiding party led by the Delaware war chief Bemino and taken to a Shawnee village along the Ohio River. Based on a true story, this is an account of how the paths of the young frontiersman from Quebec, and the young widow from Virginia, intersect and determine the course for their lives and the lives of future generations. Written with a vividly historical backdrop and rich human interaction, this is a gripping tale of adventure, survival, tragedy, strength, and love. Journey back to the 18th century and experience how the ordinary people, British, French, and Native, ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Jubilee: Book One of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Series by Conor Bender (119 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Readers of After Dunkirk & Beneath a Scarlet Sky agree, Jubilee is an explosive World War II tale that weaves a story high over the skies of France and England and down on the beaches of Normandy. "JUBILEE is a top-flight World War II thriller that pulses with energy and intrigue... " - Michele Rubin, Cornerstones U.S. From the beaches of Dieppe to the skies over Scotland, from the sub pens of Saint Nazaire to the lofty halls of the War Office. Before OPERATION OVERLORD, there was OPERATION JUBILEE. A cataclysmic waste of life lost on the whims of the political animals of the War Office. Arthur Cutter passed his breaking point long ago. Barely old enough to buy a beer, he was recruited by the SOE out of Oxford. Now, forced to go back behind the lines for one last mission, his journey to retirement will bring him face to face with the French Resistance and will help shape the French theater of war. Hundreds of miles away and twenty thousand feet above him, Ian Faraday, a ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

See Glass: A Political Conspiracy Thriller from WW2 endangering National Security now. A Novel of Intelligence & Espionage, Politicians and Killers. ... by Ido Graf (Nielsen) (327 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

An Amazon Charts International bestseller If you enjoy Nelson DeMille, Ken Follett, John Grisham or Dan Brown then you will love Ido Graf! This suspense novel recounts a political conspiracy to subvert the democratic process and National Security in the USA and the West by far-right groups and a serving President. But why?' It has a basis in fact. • "If ever a novel was ready to be made into a feature film it is this one - action, thrills, mystery, historical intrigue and romance, it has all the ingredients for the big screen. (See Glass)... grabs you from the very start as its clever prologue leads into 400 pages of rip-roaring adventure, the mostly short chapters - think James Patterson - meaning you often read for that little bit longer before turning out the bedroom light as you're gripped by the action. Our hero is a swashbuckling James Bond meets John Wick, our heroine a Lily James-type gorgeous damsel in distress and the story romps along at 100-miles-an-hour." Jeremy ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Bertie: (A Sweet Historical Western Romance) (Pendleton Petticoats Book 6) by Shanna Hatfield (Wholesome Hearts Publishing) (432 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

She needs an adventure He needs the warmth of her smile... Bertie Hawkins survived a traumatic ordeal that stripped away her sunny outlook on life and left her afraid of every shadow. Terrorized and tired of reliving the past, she accepts an offer to change her situation. Although she only intends to work through the summer, the peace she finds at Nash's Folly keeps her there every bit as much as her interest in a mysterious new ranch hand. Desperate to escape his memories, Riley Walsh buys a run-down farm in Pendleton, Oregon. To pay for the many necessary repairs, he goes to work for his neighbor, never intending to fall in love with the effervescent girl who helps around the house. Riley isn't the only one enchanted with Bertie. His own crazy mule and the neighbor's son both share his infatuation, driving him past the brink of jealousy. A sweet romance that embraces the trials and triumphs of yesteryear, Bertie blends laugh-out-loud adventures with heartwarming moments.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Another Time and Place: A Novel of World War II (Echoes of War Book 1) by Samantha Grosser (Sam Grosser Books) (1,565 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A brief encounter changes two lives forever in an enthralling novel of love, loss and longing. England 1944. In the shadow of the war raging in Europe, Tom and Anna meet by chance. He is an American pilot on a 72-hour pass and she is a secretary, trapped in a life going nowhere. Surprised by each other, they begin a passionate affair. Their happiness does not last. Shot down over Europe, wounded and in hiding, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive. And Anna, left waiting in England, has no way of finding out. How can she know that Tom is struggling to return to her? Or that the thought of her is all that keeps him going on the long journey home? In a world where promises are hard to keep, all she can do is hope. Until she discovers her mother is keeping secrets, and then it is a race against time. From the hardships of a war-weary England to the dangers of occupied France, Another Time and Place is an emotional love story like no other. Perfect for fans of Deborah Swift, ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Lady's Touch of Sin: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Lucy Langton (484 Reviews)    Price verified 48 minutes ago

When her mother finds out that she was involved in a frantic love triangle, Marta Schnitzler is instantly being cast from her Austrian home. What awaits her is her Aunt Margaret, a tittering woman with an earnest responsibility to find Marta a match, against her wishes. While the blue-eyed beauty desperately tries to escape from her future misery, a very dashing man shows up in her life, but, to her misfortune, he is not the one her Aunt has chosen for her. But when her Aunt insists so much on a particular engagement with a Duke, should she just give up to the tantalizing stranger she just met or should she fight to satisfy the burning passion she holds for him? Baldwin Terrence is a successful businessman and the future heir to his ducal estate. When his best friend's cousin comes unexpectedly to visit, he finds himself surprisingly stricken by her stunning eyes, and the connection between them is electrifying. Her beauty is irresistible and tests his willpower at every turn. ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Reaper of Washington County by Steven Banner (10 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Young Sean Callahan appears to be lost. His father who was a legendary Lawman, has just passed away. He did however train his son to be a leader and to follow in his footsteps. In the year 1894, he began working on the sea vessel the Intrepid. With the whaling trade slowing. He sets his sights on something else. The one thing Sean knows he can't run away from... His uncle is the courageous Captain James Callahan who runs the Boston Office for U.S. Marshals. He gives Sean a new start in life, by becoming a marshal himself. Later ordered to an obscure town seeming hidden in Rhode Island. His mission is to find out what happened to four missing women. Under the watchful eye of retired Major Jeremiah Lancaster. He tries to understand what everyone appears to be hiding, in a town filled with folklore and superstition. With seemingly no clues. He must track down who is responsible or return home a complete failure. His new boss, Colonel Robert Goldberg is running for a seat on the United ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Last Letter (The Letter Series Book 1) by Kathleen Shoop (2,658 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

"Gripping historical fiction -- A tale of two women finding meaning behind all that went wrong in their lives. A timeless tale of redemption with the best plot-twist at the end I've seen in a long, long time. Can't wait for book two!" New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa Foster Katherine wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't found the letter... In the summer of 1905 Katherine Arthur's mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband Frank it had been a world of opportunity. Dreaming, lazy Frank. But, it was a society of uncertainty--a domain of natural disasters, temptation, hatred, even death. ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pretty Little Flowers by Joyce Kay (9 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

What I wouldn't give for you. I would sacrifice everything. I would give my life. All you have to do is ask and I would stand upon the peak of a great mountain and fall to my certain death. In Victorian England, everything is done according to the rules of society, but when the Duke of Fetterfield dies, his daughter discovers a freedom that had been denied to her; the freedom to marry for love. And when Mr York comes back into her life, she believes her prayers have finally been answered. But her father's death also uncovers a shocking secret that could destroy them all. Pretty Little Flowers by Joyce Kay is about the choices we make, and how those choices force us to confront the truth of who we are.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Ambrose, Prince of Wessex; Trader of Kiev. (Ambrose series Book 1) by Bruce Corbett (89 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

A young prince of Wessex is captured by Viking raiders. He and his friends manage to escape captivity in Denmark, and begin an epic journey to Norway and then Sweden. The rest of the story is loosely based on the Primary Russian Chronicles. There, they join a Viking expedition to conquer Novgorod, and, within a year, they travel down the mighty Dnieper river to settle in Kiev.

Genre: Historical Fiction