Historical Fiction

Tall, serious-faced Mitt Stone runs away from the ranch and takes a freight job from Uvalde to the West. He is determined to make money and meet up with his buddy Bob Guthrie on the road. At Fort Davis he meets Lydia Lorrain, but Mitt fails the mother's test. He and Bob find a niche: buying mules cheap and selling them to the stage and freight line, but the Civil War has destroyed currency, and the draft looms. In San Antonio, Mitt's brother Sam has converted their paper to gold. With their budd... more info>>

The Sum of It All--'The Twilight' is about a small child beginning to develop his awareness of the world around him during the early days of the Second World War. The saga begins with an old man dying of cancer in a hospital. As he drifts in and out of a coma, he slips back and forth between the present reality and his past life. Now in his last moments he relives the events, but in the context of an adult's mind and understanding. In his unconsciousness during the hallucination he melts back in... more info>>

Max Brand's classic adventure of the old west, features seven dead men and hero looking for some spice in his life.

Lexie has found the perfect wedding dress, but will it bring her luck? As she begins to see back into the past, things begin to happen. Perhaps she should have left the dress where she found it?

In 1304, amidst Scotland's continuing war for independence? two wounded souls are forced on a journey neither wants, resulting in tragedy and disaster. Battle-hardened, untrusting and son of a Scottish Chieftain? Duncan MacThomas wants only to see his country free from English rule. Honor-bound to ensure his clan's financial future, Duncan reluctantly travels to England to wed a woman he doesn't want. Wealthy and pampered? Catherine Gillingham anticipates a marriage to a Duke's son and is dismay... more info>>

The latest from Bruce H. Thorstad's "Gents" series find the boys in another sticky situation of their own concoction. Cass McCasland really knew how to get Riley Stokes into trouble. He had cooked up a hustle that combined the boys' twin fort�s. With Cass' talent for betting and Riley's skills as a sharpshooter, Cass hoped to win them both a whole heap of cash? But even rich men--especially rich men--don't like getting swindled by two raggedy con artists from everywhere and nowhere. Now the pa... more info>>

The fourth installment of Bruce H. Thorstad's boisterous "Gents" series finds incorrigible scoundrels Cass McCasland and Riley Stokes in another lawless town and another heady situation. This time it's the mining village of Buckshot, Colorado, where the boys hope to find fortune in the underground caves belonging to Riley's Uncle Rufus. But once they arrive, they realize that their get-rich-quick scheme has turned into a get-suited-up challenge for their wits and their baseball skills. When Uncl... more info>>

The first Interracial romance has Ramona falling in love with a Native American in Old California. In writing it, Helen Hunt Jackson hoped to bring the wrongs done to the Native American to the public consciousness in the same way that Uncle Tom's Cabin brought public awareness of the evils of slavery.

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures Following in the footsteps of her pirate great-grandmother, Grace O'Malley takes matters into her own hands, risking her love--her life. Owen O'Donnell views the 'Deer Stalker' as a Robin Hood to the starving villagers. Only, Lord Rushmount has vowed to stop the poacher one way or another. As suspicions grow, Owen fears he won't be able to keep Grace from harm's way. Grace knows the perils facing them all, but cannot pull back in this most dangerous ga... more info>>

Serendipity Beasley faces a challenge when her Pa leaves home. After her brother is gunned down, will she be able to keep the family together?

by Raphael Sabatini Action-Adventure with a touch of historical romance by a master storyteller. "He whom they called the Tavern Knight laughed an evil laugh--such a laugh as the pious might conceive on the lips of Satan." Thus begins Sabatini's masterful romance of the life of a Tavern King--a story of swashbuckling adventure and murderous action. Unusually for Sabatini, he has turned to English history to provide the backdrop for this thrilling tale. Another romantic action thriller by the aut... more info>>

Another classic Western adventure romance by one of America's most prolific authors of action adventure.

Forced to the streets after her mother dies, Carina Gallo is desperate to survive and find her long lost sisters. Consumed with locating his missing brother, Count Luciano has forsaken his needs. When he catches beautiful and vulnerable Carina stealing from him, he takes pity and cares for her until she's strong enough to work off her crime. Carina is forever grateful to Luciano, yet fears he will learn of her wicked secret and condemn her to burn. Will Luciano and Carina find a way to feed the ... more info>>

War! Tom Holloway and his Southern friends are excited about the prospects. But what do they know of war? Only what they read about in the newspapers. They envision the whole thing as an adventure, something to prove their manhood, to make them into men. A quick, few-month diversion from their sometimes boring school regimen. A chance to be part of a winning team. But words from a grizzled war veteran sets Tom to thinking. And he remembers those words as he marches off with his friends to do bat... more info>>

The Martha Whittaker Story is a historical romance taking the reader on a journey from the English aristocracy to the trials and tribulations of pioneer life. Martha McGuire's arranged marriage to Jebediah Whittaker turns her life into her worst nightmare. After travelling on an immigrant ship to the Americas, a Conestoga wagon to the west, calamity follows, leaving her alone with a devil of a man and his three sons in the vast wilderness of Wyoming. Will hero Austin Wells find her and rescue he... more info>>

This is the story of how one man and his family migrated from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to a small village in Orange County, New York. The Village was called Sugar Loaf and has come to be referred to as "The Village of Craftsman". When he arrived in Sugar Loaf, he was fortunate enough to meet wonderful people who welcomed him and his family. As a result, he was quickly able to find a home and a job. This first book of the Wesley's is filled with happiness, drama, sorrow, and love. It is a heart- w... more info>>

When her adoptive mother dies in a bank shootout, orphan Karina Vadislav is sent to live with Patrick Baker, her uncle in Dodge City, Kansas. After years of abuse, she flees, meeting Benjamin Sawyer, a gambler with a sordid past. He agrees to help her claim her inheritance in Topeka, posing as her husband to keep her safe. But there are men who are out for Ben's blood and will stop at nothing to see him dead. Coupled with Karina's bloodthirsty uncle, neither of them is safe on the trail. When bu... more info>>

Defying family and social pressure, Nettie Brady bucks 1920s convention with her dream of becoming a rodeo star. That means competing with men, and cowgirls who ride the rodeo circuit are considered "loose women." Addicted to the thrill of pitting her strength and wits against a half-ton steer in a rodeo, Nettie exchanges skirts for pants, rides with her brothers on their Montana ranch, and competes in neighborhood rodeos. Broken bones, killer influenza, flash floods, and family hardship team up... more info>>

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and gu... more info>>

Max Brand's first western novel, "The Untamed" is the fictionalized west that we know and love, where men and women were larger than life and strode across a fantasy world of death, lawlessness, and strange beauty. After reading this novel, pick any other Faust/Brand title and give it a try: I guarantee you that you won't find a dud.

Dido, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation, runs away to join Henry Morgan's privateer fleet and find the treasure that will allow her to buy her family's freedom. What she doesn't bargain on is falling in love with El Negro, a pirate captain with no particular yen for a long-lasting relationship. As Morgan sails the Spanish Main, sacking first, El Puerto del Principe in Cuba, and then the great city of Porto Bello in Panama, Dido becomes a valued member of El Negro's crew. After the ships ret... more info>>

In this thrilling sequel to Boston Baked Churchill, the year is 1903 and Boston Sleuth Cootch Connolly finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation when a judge and probationer are found dead. After receiving death threats from an anti-Irish group, Cootch races to the aid of young, embattled politician, James Michael Curley, a flamboyant, risk-taker who will one day become Boston's most famous mayor. Along with his Boston cop brother, Finn, Cootch and Curley set out to trap the killer, send... more info>>

As with the better-known Capt. Blood, the story takes place during the ill-fated Protestant rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth against James II. The characters are carefully drawn. Not the best the author has to offer, but Sabatini fans will love it, as will lovers of historical romance

Buffalo Jones was born sixty-two years ago on the Illinois prairie, and he has devoted practically all of his life to the pursuit of wild animals. It has been a pursuit which owed its unflagging energy and indomitable purpose to a singular passion, almost an obsession, to capture alive, not to kill. For ten years he labored, pursuing, capturing and taming buffalo, for which the West gave him fame, and the name Preserver of the American Bison.

Carib Indian--warrior/cannibal is the first novel written about this incredible tribe of extinct Indians. It begins on a 16th century night as an old Carib instructs five young boys on top a mountain near their village on Dominica Island--the 2008 location of the last descendants of this tribe. From him they will learn many tales of past battles and the courage of the warriors who fought in them. Two that stand out will be the Carib Chief Ahameke, and his foe Baracoraima, an Arawak Chief. The bo... more info>>