The Emperor's Jade by Robert Mitchell (88 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

FOR OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS THE SECRET HIDING PLACE OF THE JADE SEAL HAS BEEN JUST THAT - A SECRET.The dragon seal of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, will be the most valuable ancient artefact to come from the Middle Kingdom, if they can find it. The accidental destruction of a small antique porcelain pillow reveals the secret of the seal, leading the young Australian teacher and his Scottish friend away from their peaceful college at Nandaihe on the shore of the Bo Sea, drawing them up into the freezing bleakness of the ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Golden Spurs: Book One in The Legend of Richard Keynes Series by Clive Hart (47 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

A missing father... A splintered family... Will the son escape those who destroyed his life? Can Richard navigate his way through a medieval world full of knights, battles, blood and iron? Book One in The Legend of Richard Keynes series follows Richard's varied trials as he battles through a period of history famed for its violence and uncertainty. Mounted on his faithful warhorse, Richard must learn how to fight his enemies with his lance as well as his wits, and sometimes with the help of his friends. The story follows Richard ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Second David Trials and Tribulations (The Empire of Israel Book 3) by Joseph Ganci (26 Reviews)    Price verified 11 minutes ago

Vast wealth and greed! Envy, trickery, lust, murder, and underhanded power grabs! Family death pacts, royal incest, and assassination attempts! Ensnared human sacrifice, and stark battles with Goliath's four vengeful Philistine brothers! Harrowing escape from a rebellious takeover of David's Jerusalem capital! This isn't your 21st-century tabloid headlines -- it's all in the same Bible that you THOUGHT you knew. David and Solomon! - Bathsheba and Absalom! - General Joab (David's chief henchman), and Nathan, the fabled prophet! Joseph ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Lady's Touch of Sin: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Lucy Langton (484 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours 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, ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Illegitimate Tudor by James M. Stuart (13 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

WHAT WOULD A MAN BE WILLING TO DO TO AVENGE HIS BELOVED ONES? AGAINST KING AND COUNTRY, A BASTARD SON WILL SEEK REVENGE NO MATTER THE COST! 1524. King Henry VIII of the House of Tudors rules the Kingdom of England. Edward, a young man living a secluded life in York is led into exile after tragedy befalls his family. In his efforts to survive in a foreign land, he succumbs into a lawless life, but fate has different plans for him... In the Tudor Court, Catherine of Aragon, the Queen of England has repeatedly failed to ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Letter from Her Dear Marquess: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Alice Kirks (173 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Lady Abigail Price is a hopelessly romantic soul and has always been dreaming of marrying her fairytale prince. When her parents announce that her marriage choice has been made already, she finds herself thrown into deep sorrow. However, her luck is about to change the fateful night he will meet her intendant unbeknownst his identity. Abigail is immediately drawn to him and when she discovers his name, a moment of happy bliss overflows her heart. However, her joy is quickly shattered when a great scandal that shames the Price name ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Tropical Frontier: The Cow Hunters by Tim Robinson (522 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Best Fiction, Florida Historical Society, Patrick D. Smith Award, 2015. [Rating: R, for violence and language] The Fourth novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series, The Cow Hunters is the sequel to The Good Dog. The Florida Prairie, 1860, cattle country. War looms, but to the settlers living along a jungled, tropical creek, it all seems very far away. For Becky Hackensaw, there are more pressing matters, such as providing an education for her six children, but where to find someone willing to brave an uninhabited wilderness overrun ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Reaper of Washington County by Steven Banner (10 Reviews)    Price verified 11 minutes 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 ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Cordelia's Journey (Pierce Family Saga Book 1) by Hazel Hart (1,848 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

A brutal stepfather... A dying mother... A loving daughter who tries to save her Kansas Territory, 1855 In this coming-of-age story, thirteen-year-old Cordelia endures her stepfather's abuse until she learns her ailing mother is pregnant again. Fearing her mother will die in childbirth, she runs away, heading for Westport and her aunt, the only person who might be able to save her mother. She disguises herself as a boy and sets out on foot to make the 150-mile trip. Following the Kansas River, she hitches rides with a variety of ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rich Man's Coffin: The Legend of Black Jack White by K. Martin Gardner (Sunbird Group) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Gardner's debut novel, Rich Man's Coffin, won the San Diego Book Award for Best Biographical Novel. Many prominent names in the writing world thought it worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. With this Special Edition, Gardner has enhanced the original excitement of the story, crafting it further into a leaner, faster page turner. Lovers of adventure and action alike will find the title character's journey a delight to follow, right up to the climactic end. Based on the true story of an escaped American slave, this legend is like no other: A ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Lady's Wicked Revenge: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Henrietta Harding (Regal Quill Publishing) (203 Reviews)    Price verified 11 minutes ago

After her parents were tragically killed in an accident, Diana Hann is forced to live with her despicable uncle. As if that were not enough, he wants to marry her off cheaply so he can rob her of her inheritance. Desperate with grief and furious with her evil guardian, Diana is devastated... Until the most unusual, tempting man appears. Who is this mysterious, witty stepson; a friend or a passionate admirer? Will he be the one to set her heart on fire or ruin her once and for all? When living in the Devil's lair... The enticing ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Last Letter (The Letter Series Book 1) by Kathleen Shoop (2,658 Reviews)    Price verified 6 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 ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pretty Little Flowers by Joyce Kay (9 Reviews)    Price verified 7 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 ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Ambrose, Prince of Wessex; Trader of Kiev. (Ambrose series Book 1) by Bruce Corbett (89 Reviews)    Price verified 6 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