Historical Fiction

King of the Romans is satisfying as a historical novel and a tale of adventure, but it succeeds on other levels as well. We are shown unspeakable cruelty and corruption. We also are treated to deep friendship, love and courage, as Syagrius and his companions battle their own personal demons along with more prosaic enemies. Gorman does not provide easy answers or pat happy endings. Instead, he celebrates the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit."--Ilene Sirocca for The RunningRive... more info>>

1866 Kitty McKenzie path has taken her from the slums of York to the inhospitable bush of colonial Australia. Yet, when she believes her dreams will never be attained, she is shown that sometimes life can be even better than what you wish for. Kitty McKenzie is gifted land in the far north of New South Wales. Life at the northern property is full of hardships as she learns how to become a successful landowner. However, Kitty's strength of will and belief in herself gives her the courage most ... more info>>

Elizabeth Conway's greatest ambition is to discover a comet. Unfortunately, she is the eldest of eight daughters of an earl, so her relative expect her to take her rightful place in Society. The heavenly bodies she views through her telescope hold far more fascination for Elizabeth than any mere male, although her perpetual beau, dashing Lord Bevis, would change that if he could. When Tom Conroy, a distant cousin and the new Earl of Clanross, appears after a year's delay, Elizabeth offers him a ... more info>>

Amanda Wilde never wanted to be different, but from the time she was a young girl she had a "gift" of seeing into the future and a way with animals. Local folk labeled her peculiar, but she managed to create a happy though somewhat isolated life on her family's Virginia plantation, Wilde Rose, with her twin brother Andrew for a companion. Then the War Between the States broke out and her world crumbled. Lord Brandon Huntington, oldest son of British nobility, came into the title after his father... more info>>

Fleeing arrest by a spurned suitor, Lady Riana Travistock heads for London where she is knifed in a street brawl when she helps a man attacked by footpads. Luckily for Lady Riana, the victim of the attack is army surgeon Captain Devlin Carrington who takes her home to tend her injury. When Dev cuts off her blood-soaked chemise to stitch the knife wound, a fortune in jewels spill out. Has he saved a lovely jewel thief only to watch her hang?

When Melissa Johnson once again wandered away from the group on her Highland Tour, she had no idea she would stumble into a fierce battle complete with warriors, warhorses and swords. After a harrowing rescue by the most stunning man she's ever met, she comes to the conclusion that she's somehow traveled back in time to the year 1745. How will she ever return to the future and her family? And does she truly want to? Alexander G. MacKenna, the reigning Laird of the Game, is absolutely shocked wh... more info>>

Little is written about World War II as faced by those who lived in the Dutch-held Indonesian Islands when Japan invaded. When the Allies occupied neutral Portuguese East Timor, the Governor of Macao requests the aide of the International Red Cross to correct the situation. Along with the Director, DeGroot and his co-pilot Gabbi fly from Shanghai to Manila, and eventually to East Timor. During an early morning air raid, the Japanese destroy the Goose, leaving them to attempt escape to Australia... more info>>

Henry Sweeney must choose between rescuing a stunning girl from brutal rape at the hands of two demon-eyed Italian men and killing them, or turning his back on the girl and returning to the saloon where he deals poker. Sweeney knows either decision will forever change his life. Saving Emma from unspeakable acts and life in the brothels of the Chicago Levee is only the beginning of their life together. They face streets filled with chaos and a city under the control of clashing mob factions as Pr... more info>>

The town of Apache Wells had quietly sneered at Brian Sheridan all his life. It knew him as a drunk, a playboy, the worthless son of a man who had hacked his power and fortune from the Arizona wilds in the tradition of the great empire builders. And then one day the father was dead. Brian found himself broke, hated, squeezed dry by the men he'd known as friends. Slowly Brian Sheridan began to fight back, to come alive as a man. It was a good feeling. But it carried the uneasy knowledge that some... more info>>

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.

By Baroness Emma Orczy A collection of Short Stories on how the Scarlet Pimpernel met members of his League. Learn of the beginnings of those men, and women, who hold membership in the LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. Dashing, swashbuckling adventure, combined with regency romance.

Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning novel, Francine explores the new life that love can bring to a decaying garden of broken relationships.

There's only one person in town brave enough to step in and take over for the sheriff when he's shot, and that's his wife. Diggett Monroe's gang of outlaws is set to overrun the town of Endurance, Idaho, and claim it for their own. They start by ambushing Sheriff Pelham Birdsall, leaving him for dead, lying in a pool of blood. But Birdsall, thanks to his young wife Delight, doesn't die, and as she strives to get him back on his feet in time for the inevitable, swiftly approaching showdown, mor... more info>>

Young Gincy Tate's father is murdered before he can fulfill a contract to supply the Army with remounts. In order to pay his debts and save the ranch, she must make the sale in his place. Afraid the lien-holder, whom she suspects of being the murderer, will foreclose before June 7, 1883, she tells no one Morris Tate is dead. Instead, she says he is here, there, or elsewhere. Gincy hires two cowboys to help trail the herd to Fort Spokane. One is on the murderer's payroll, but Sawyer Kennett hires... more info>>

Samia Giamal has come to the desert to kill herself. A childless first wife of Ibrahim, she has sunk to the position of slavery to serve him and his succeeding wives. But it was not to be. She is rescued as she stumbles upon the excavation expedition of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter who are digging around the already grave-robber plundered tombs of the Pharoahs, finding little worthwhile. They revive the near death Samia and she joins and contributes to their efforts as they accidentally stum... more info>>

Alexander the Great has conquered the Persian Empire and is marching eastward to India. In his wake he leaves small groups of soldiers to govern great tracts of land and diverse peoples. Nikometros is a young cavalry captain left behind in the lands of the fierce nomadic Scythian horsemen. Captured after an ambush, he must fight for his life and the lives of his surviving men. He seeks an opportunity to escape but owes a debt of loyalty to the chief, and a developing love for the young priestess... more info>>

Classic Western Tales from Louis L'Amour! Here is a passel of stories by the supreme master of the western tale, Louis L'Amour. Forgotten for almost forty years, they were penned at the outset of L'Amour's career, when he was writing for the late, lamented pulp magazines. Though he would gain his greatest success with the novel, this volume reveals him to have been an equally accomplished practitioner of short story and novelette. If you are already a Louis L'Amour fan, stories like "Lit a Shuck... more info>>

Liberated from a band of Cheyenne who had annihilated his family on their way to Oregon, a young Ohio farm boy is transported to England by a visiting nobleman to be educated and live with the aristocracy.

As the son of an infamous gunfighter, Buck Duane has the natural instincts and lightening-quick reflexes of his father. After killing a man in self-defense, he becomes an outlaw living amongst gunfighters and bandits on the Texas-Mexico border.

Ken Hodgson, an authentic, powerfully original voice in Western fiction, returns with the most notorious story in the annals of the frontier.... In 1873, Alferd Packer led 21 men from Utah to the gold fields of Colorado. Three months later, he came back to civilization alone, guarding the terrible secret of what he had done there. To this day, no one knows what really happened on that fateful expedition--except Packer himself. Lone Survivor brilliantly recreates--from Packer's unique point of vi... more info>>

The interesting tale contained in this volume of romantic adventure in the forests of Canada, was much appreciated and enjoyed by a large circle of young readers when first published, under the title of "The Canadian Crusoes." After being many years out of print, it will now, we hope and believe, with a new and more descriptive title, prove equally attractive to our young friends of the present time.

Kyra Morgan always wanted to live in the past, and now she's found a way to do just that. Whether she likes it or not. Wrapping herself in black velvet under the sweltering Southern sun, Kyra spends her summers working at the Tudor Rose Renaissance Festival, a Lady in an imaginary royal court. She hasn't had much luck with men either and has little interest in handing her heart over again, so she immerses herself in her scholarship and the local faire where she can escape into the past and ignor... more info>>

An adventurous romp through Italian love, war, and politics at the end of the 15th century. A strong and noble Count must save the Prince's beautiful niece from the unwanted attentions of a loathsome Duke and a treacherous courtier. As the Duke's armies lay siege to the impregnable castle, which must survive on supplies of much wine and little powder, the count turns the tables on his enemies. You'll see why Sabatini is considered the all-time greatest writer of historical adventure.

June 1967. As Vincent Torelli stepped off the plane at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, he was almost overwhelmed by the stench in the hot, humid air. He still had a hard time realizing he was in Vietnam. Drafted into the armed forces five months earlier, he ended up becoming a Military Policeman, assigned to the 557th MP Co. at Long Binh Post just outside Binh Hoa City. His year tour of duty in Vietnam changes him from a somewhat naïve young man to a battle hardened veteran. Through unlucky ch... more info>>

Years earlier Erik faked his death and vowed the Phantom would never again haunt the Opera Garnier. But strange packages left by Anna, an unwanted Samaritan turned unlikely friend, cause him to desire the unattainable--love. Battling the nobleman determined to lock him away, Erik must control his demons and tame a heart unexpectedly beating for two opposite women: Christine, who he longs to love, and Anna the woman who saw beyond his bitter soul to the man beneath the mask. In the midst of a bru... more info>>