TEMPEST: Bermuda 1609 by S. Wright (86 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

If you like heart stopping Historical fiction... you will be gripping the chair until you know they made it! Leaving a tragic past behind, John set out on an adventure to the New World. Passionately in love with his new wife, and looking forward to a new start as they boarded the ship to Jamestown, nothing could have prepared them for the tragedy that was to come. On a tumultuous sea where rivalries, politics and racial discrimination were rife, John's beautiful lover, to protect a closely guarded secret, makes a tragic error of judgement. It would change everything. Their lives were on the line. Even if they were lucky enough to survive the ferocious hurricane, could they survive the consequences of her actions? An action adventure to remember!

Genre: Historical Fiction

The Rebel (Shadows over the Black Land Book 1) by Monika Mangal (69 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

First part of a riveting trilogy set in the closing years of the nineteenth pharaonic dynasty When Tawosret becomes the second Great Royal Wife of the newly crowned Pharaoh, Seti, she doesn't look forward joyfully to a life by the side of her much older husband. Unaccustomed to the ways of the royal court, she initially struggles to meet the expectations that come with her elevated status and to find her place in a family that soon turns out to be far from perfect. Just how deep the rift between the factions is becomes clear when an uprising on an unprecedented scale shakes the very foundations of Seti's rule. The insurgents are headed by no other than his own son, Amunmesse. Having proclaimed himself king, Amunmesse leads an impressive army from Nubia northwards in a steady, unstoppable advance. It takes him only a few months to bring the better part of the country under his complete control. Seti, whose own influence is henceforth restricted to the delta and a small part of the ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Arklight: Task Force Crusader by J.M. Myrick (24 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Powerful enemies threaten. Everlasting judgment begins. Reoutfitted and recovered from the costly Battle of Nashville, Spear Team launches a crusade to uncover the truth. This time, they know their enemy: a brutal and cruel special operative known as Magnus O'Keefe. Desperate to locate the next piece of the ultimate weapon, Arklight launches a mission to retrieve the infamous Spear of Destiny. Soon after, they learn of another bygone piece of the puzzle that has been unearthed, bringing to light an astonishing history, lost in the annals of conspiracy and lore. A long-forgotten Nazi regime will stop at nothing to finish what they started under Hitler's genocidal rule. Rising from the ashes, the Fourth Reich's Order of the Black Sun covertly initiates the final solution, using a weapon of unimaginable destruction.Bridging over two thousand years of human history, two timelines converge into a singular event; while Spear Team struggles against Magnus, the Alsos Mission Team ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Cuckoo in the Nest by Diane Mitchell (34 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Evicted from their Devon home in the autumn of 1850, John Price is forced to take to the road with his wife Mary and their two young children, one cold winter's night finding them trudging the lanes of Gloucestershire in search of shelter. Their meagre resources exhausted, John reluctantly decides he has no option but to leave his family at the gates of the Workhouse, finding work at the Grange, the home of Major Carruthers. Moving into a tied cottage, the lives of the Price family become caught up in the fortunes and misfortunes of the Carruthers and their near neighbours, Sir Ian Stuart and his wife Lady Margaret. But the many lies and violent deaths John witnesses over the years are to make him rue the day the Major took him in.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Five Days in September: The Invasion of England 1940 by P R Burrell (RoadRunner Publications) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Five Days in September (Second Edition) September 1940, the Battle of Britain is over, the Luftwaffe has air superiority over England and the invasion of England has been set in motion. Jimmy Webb and his two lifelong friends, Penny Packard and Harry Hughes, who live in the southeast of England, in a clifftop village between Dover and Folkestone, are all involved in the defence of Britain, despite being only 17 years old. Jimmy is in the resistance, a member of an Auxiliary Patrol, Harry is a member of the Home Guard whilst Penny has been recruited as a local intelligence agent, a member of the Auxiliary Units Special Duties Branch tasked with reporting on enemy actions, troop movements and the morale of the populace. Karl Dressler, leader of an SS Assault Group of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the crack unit of the Waffen-SS, has been tasked with securing and holding the area between Dover and Folkestone, an area that includes the invasion headquarters. ...

Genre: Historical Fiction

Mr Darcy and The Marshalsea: A Pride and Prejudice Continuation (Mr Darcy's Chronicles Book 18) by Jackie Wellman (Edgar Roy) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Darcy and Lizzy receive news that Lydia plans to move to London shortly. Her husband, Mr Wickham, is determined to become rich quickly in the glittering capital. Of course, Mr Wickham does not become rich and is soon dispatched to The Marshalsea, London's notorious debtors' prison. Thinking that Darcy and Lizzy will (and indeed should) come to their aid, he dictates a letter for his wife to write and send to her sister. Darcy and Lizzy are in a quandary. They want to help but Darcy cannot forget Wickham's treatment of Georgiana, his dear sister. Furthermore they know that if they simply pay the debt, Wickham and Lydia will have learnt nothing. They travel to London and visit Wickham and Lydia. Shocked by the melancholy state into which Lydia has fallen, they know something must be done. But what? This is a funny and affectionate continuation of Jane Austen's beloved novel.

Genre: Historical Fiction

A Destiny to Dance: The Chronicles of the Great Oak: Book 2 by Jenny Davis (Amazon Digital Services) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A Destiny to Dance Book II: The Chronicles of the Great Oak Margaret Simmons has known all of her life that her family is not like others. Her family has secrets. Her family has had terrible loss. It has years of pain and longing for loved ones. And her family has a sacred duty--to protect the Great Oak. But Margaret learned she had another duty when her lost sister returned through the Great Oak. "A girl born from the Tree had a Destiny to Love, so her sister danced through the tree to gift it to her... " Margaret had to leave everything... her family... the entire world she knew, to take her sister's place in the future. This way her sister, Melanie, could stay in Margaret's time of 1944, and be with the young man she had fallen in love with. She had to do it for her sister. She had to do it for her parents. And she hoped, she was somehow doing it for herself as well. Margaret quickly finds that the Great Oak has a plan for her, but she must go through the tree several times to ...

Genre: Historical Fiction