Historical Fiction

Sir William Barnett is a man with no regrets. Or so he would have everyone believe. Orphaned and abandoned as a child, he finds his wit and his prowess with the ladies a convenient cover for his pain. Until he is asked to serve as guardian for Lady Prudence Marlow, a young hellcat whose sharp tongue and insistent charm tempt him to risk his heart. Lady Prudence has only one desire. To cause enough problems for the people around her that no man will ever agree to marry her. When King Henry seemin... more info>>

Once again Anna and Mycroft Holmes tear through London in hansom cabs as they pursue three further adventures set in the eighteen-eighties. Mycroft puffs and pants his way through his cases, applying not only his keen mind but also, in one case, the precepts of the Kama Sutra, while Anna hobnobs with Buffalo Bill, Henry Irving and Oscar Wilde. In "The Deadwood Stage" an anarchist threatens mayhem at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Anna finds herself having to impersonate Miss Annie Oakley befo... more info>>

Lincoln's haunted by ghosts of dead soldiers and Hoss is in "love," what Hop Sing calls an unhealthy obsession. Adam's missing, Joe thinks Ben is dead and Ben follows the trail of a slave's suspicion that Lincoln is a traitor. In a departure from FELLING OF THE SONS, MYSTIC FIRE separates the Cartwrights into four misadventures, involving Lincoln, Mark Twain, slavery, greed, and Victorian Spiritualism. A Civil War-impacted adventure that tears the Cartwrights apart even as they try to cling toge... more info>>

It's Christmas Eve, 1492, and the second night of Chanukah. The crew of the Santa Maria, including Admiral Columbus, are sleeping off a three-day party with the local Taino. Diego, the young Marrano sailor who first appeared in the Agatha-nominated story, "The Green Cross," climbs into the crow's nest to light his secret menorah. When the ship goes aground, consequences arise that will affect the history of the New World from that moment on. A historical short story for the holidays from our Ni... more info>>

A new generation ascends the throne of Vannin? The dramatic conclusion to The Hearts of Ellan Vannin Trilogy. Prince Manfred knows King Roan didn't take him under his wing out of the goodness of his heart. It was to keep his treasonous father Godfrey under control, assuring peace in the kingdom of Vannin. Yet a bond of loyalty and friendship develops between the two men as Manfred, under Roan's fosterage, turns into a fine warrior. But that loyalty is torn apart when Roan discovers Manfred's ... more info>>

Marianne Noble is a lady's companion when she meets Jerome Rivers at the fashionable Northern resort of Scarborough. The devastatingly handsome Jerome sweeps her into a world of riches, privilege and love. When a mysterious assassin threatens their lives, Marianne must take all her courage and defeat the evil that has entered her new world. Otherwise she will lose everything; a love beyond imagining, her independence and even her life.

Can the promise of Odessa's sweet lips lure Zach from the secret mission that has his gut twisted into a knot? When the wagon carrying Odessa Clay and her father overturns, he is killed. She is left alone in the middle of the desert to try to find her way to kin in Phoenix. Hot, dry and scared, Odessa is near death when Zach Johnson finds her. Squinting up into his tanned and handsome face, she imagines she's died and gone to heaven. Would-be-outlaw, Zach comes across an unconscious woman alone... more info>>

Can doves and falcons live peacefully together? The FitzStephen and Farles family's try during sixteenth century England under the reigns of three very different monarchs

A 5000-years-dead pharaoh (descendant of the REAL Scorpion King) and his favorite concubine quarrel bitterly inside an exhibit hall in a museum in Cairo, about love, hate, and murder--especially his murder of his brother and his and the concubine's son. When gods Isis and Anubis step in, a possibility of reconciliation with each other and the dead reveals itself.

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>>

Raped at 14, Galen Stewart awakens from a state of shock to find her foster father's blood on her hands. Determined to stay two steps ahead of the man's politician brother who'd rather see her dead than reveal his darkest secret, she's forced to use the only gift Fate has seen fit to bestow upon her. Hiding beneath an array of identities, Galen works the oldest profession in the book. Instead of committing the carnal act, she concocts a tonic that sends her 'Johns' into a slumberous stupor while... more info>>

Abigail McKee vowed revenge. Ethan O'Conner not only lied to her and broke her ten-year-old heart, but also drugged her and then put her on a horrific orphan train. Since then, her life had been nothing but miserable. 14-year-old Ethan had vowed to keep Abby safe. And although he feared he would never see her again by putting her on the train, he fought back the tears with the knowledge that he had kept his promise to Abby the only way he knew how. Now ten years later, Ethan is back in Abby's li... more info>>

Baker sets an epic family saga against the wars that shaped generations of Americans. A realistic yet sensitive story of love and friendship, courage and cowardice, this is a timeless tale filled with rich emotion, high tension and stunning passion.

Shauna Joyce has three weeks to find a husband or face watching a special little girl fall into the hands of loveless parents. An orphan herself, she knows the heartache of growing up without love. Armed with a need greater than her own, she finds a likely candidate in bridge-builder, Kane McKenna. Kane McKenna has one goal; to finish the bridge he's erecting so he can earn the capital needed to start a business of his own. A wife and child would drain his finances, so when Shauna Joyce proposes... more info>>

Zeke Hill is a lot wilder than his brother Gene. Maybe that's why Gene's not entirely happy to see him when he shows up looking for a job at the ranch where Gene draws cowhand wages. His loyalty to Zeke soon puts him into danger--and worse. He must keep Zeke's terrible secrets, even from Katharine, the woman he loves. When deadly violence erupts, Gene must choose between his brother and his conscience.

On the northern Arkansas border of 1804, an Osage warrior and a young trapper pit wits and strength in a deadly battle only one can win. When the dust settles, who will hold the prize? When Matt Crane left home to travel the far western lands, he didn't intend to be gone long. Four years later he returned home to find his family dead, his home destroyed and his sweetheart taken captive by a vicious renegade Osage warrior. Shunned by his own people, Quick Killer is out for revenge against the man... more info>>

There is not, perhaps, in all Paris, a quieter street than the Rue St. Gilles in the Marais, within a step of the Place Royale. No carriages there; never a crowd. Hardly is the silence broken by the regulation drums of the Minims Barracks near by, by the chimes of the Church of St. Louis, or by the joyous clamors of the pupils of the Massin School during the hours of recreation.

Sending Josh Holt and his friends home to daddy, tied on their horses backward, might seem to some a mean thing to do, but to Marshal Stan Hankins, it was better than sending them home dead. Outlaws West follows the fast-thinking Deputy U.S. Marshal and his partner Chico Wrath as they find and arrest outlaws who have fled to Indian Territory in the 1870's to escape the law. It's a dangerous job, and it doesn't pay very well, but it sure beats farming! Meet the characters and smell the gun smoke ... more info>>

A Baronet's son, naïve and irresponsible, must fend for himself in the South Pacific. He survives hardship, kidnap and mugging before getting tangled up in the Japanese invasion of Guadalcanal.

A World War II 'Homefront' Adventure Lillian wants nothing more than to join the war effort, especially since her childhood sweetheart is headed to war -- and promising to write -- to her gorgeous adversary, Celia. Her accidental introduction to injured pilot Callahan sets her on an unexpected path. She joins the Civil Patrol, but suspects the war will hardly be coming to Maine's quiet shores. Or, will it? Excerpt: They were far from the sight or sound of people. She could hardly outpace him ... more info>>

A curious eleven-year boy becomes involved in WWII espionage. What he discovers terrifies him, but like a moth to the candle, his fascination with the "Swiss" leads to violence and death -- twice nearly his own. He is the most unlikely person in the most unlikely place to discover a major espionage attempt to obtain America's atomic bomb secrets. It's so implausible no one believes him. Told through the eyes of a small boy, this story unfolds in a setting where the Great Depression ends and w... more info>>

The MacMichael family struggles to survive war reconstruction and the brutal murder of a daughter. Former slaves, Phoebe and Ezra are devoted to the family.

Sievert Olafson wants to give up a sure thing--farming the rich soil of Minnesota--to go to college. His father forbids it, his brothers ridicule him, and his sweetheart refuses to join him. So what does a seventeen-year-old, first generation American do? Sievert leaves home for the goldfields of the Arizona Territory. What he finds is a world of contrasts; a mentor who is his father's diametric opposite, a young woman who takes him to new emotional heights, and depths, a "do it to them before t... more info>>

From the pages of the December, 1920 issue of "Adventure" magazine comes this thrilling tale of pirate adventure on the high seas--a rousing action-adventure from H. Bedford-Jones, King of the Pulps!

Jimmy was tall and strong. He looked like a paperback edition of a Twentieth-Century Magog, and at a distance he seemed to show breed from head to foot. He radiated it. Girls just out of boarding school who saw him swing down the main street of the little Northwestern town where he had been born and bred spoke of his fascinating virility. But when he came nearer, and chiefly when he raised his olive-green velvet hat with the twisted, many-colored pugaree band, you changed your first impression. ... more info>>