Historical Fiction

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>>

Half white, half Apache, life had not been easy for a girl of seventeen summers in the tribe of Little Squirrel. Raped by outlaws, when her babe is born, She Who Flies With Doves, her daughter and her own mother are cast out, to fend for themselves.

In a stagecoach bound from Fort Scott to the rowdy cow town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. In the summer of 1868, Marshal Dallas Blackwood is escorting a prisoner, Three Fingers Tindall, and aboard the stage is Anastasia Forsythe, a pretty young woman headed to Baxter to set up a school. When the stage is attacked by Tindall's outlaw gang, led by flamboyant Tango Pendergrass, the driver is killed, but Dallas fights off the attack, saving the life of the young woman in the process. Anastasia, though,... more info>>

Blood Feud has come to the mountain and a showdown is coming?who will survive the Showdown in Shadow Creek? It's been a long bloody trail for J.R. Bell. His father died in his arms, Missouri raiders killed his mother and brother, leaving him with nothing but vengeance and a pistol. Now he has a home and a family?but still his past pursues him. This time it's all or nothing. It has come to a fight for survival on the streets of Shadow Creek?who will walk away?who will die in the name of Blood Jus... more info>>

A rarely reprinted pulp magazine novel from bestselling western novelist Louis L'Amour. Showdown on the Hogback was first published in Giant Western magazine August 1950 under the pseudonym Jim Mayo. Years later, as was Louis L'Amour's habit, it was rewritten as Showdown at Yellow Butte. Was any gunfighter ever in a worse predicament? Tom Kedrick found himself caught between two sides - and he was both those sides! Hired by a big land syndicate to drive out what he is told are dangerous squatter... more info>>

Josiah Silence, an amnesiac civil war veteran walks into the once bucolic Thunder Valley where a madman who calls himself God and his thug army have oppressed the people. Indians surround the valley and are keeping all penned in with the constant fear of attack. Once there, Silence meets Rachel, a courageous young girl and the two of them form a unique alliance as he strives to solve the mystery of his past and stop the oppression of the false deity. Will he save the valley, the girl, his sanity... more info>>

She vowed to make every revolutionary her mortal enemy, but hers was vow destined to be broken. After bloodthirsty revolutionaries murder her family, Françoise Despres vows to avenge their deaths and fight the violent mob destroying her beloved France by becoming a spy for the counter-revolutionary cause. She knows great success, silently slipping between the shadows to carry secret messages that thwart her foes. But she never expected to come up against Sebastien de Bréze, a daring, clever c... more info>>

Elizabeth (Betty) Rose finds herself a young widow. She is angry with a husband who left her with a house, blacksmith shop and no money to maintain either. Hoping to earn a living by renting rooms, she winds up with Ross Culpepper, a mystery man, a sassy young schoolmarm, and a dangerous-looking downright scary fellow named Bart Devlin. Betty Rose and her two helpmates, an Indian couple saved from a massacre, hope to make the best of a bad situation. Will they be able to survive mystery, danger,... more info>>

Haunting memories of a Civil War event draws Marshal Damian Boedel and Colonel Brown together for the first time in several years. In an all-but-dead town they find themselves pitted against a mystical foe they thought had been done away with in the swamps of Florida during the war. The marshal also has to deal with outlaws that have his demise well planned. Forced by the outlaws into tunnels beneath the sleeping town, the marshal and colonel and a group of people unfortunate enough to be with t... more info>>

TULLY GIBBS WAS A KILLER ... A bullet sang, and Tully Gibbs hit the dirt. Tully was a killer--trained, highly skilled, merciless. But he was pinned down, exposed to the hail of rifle fire: shots slamming past his ear, spraying the bitter dust into his mouth and eyes, with his own gun a deadly three yards away from his hand ... Right or wrong, Tully Gibbs had staked his claim. Now he had to fight for it! Tully Gibbs was a hard man. War, prison camp, fighting for his life had made him that way. Wh... more info>>

Jebediah Simpson Ellsworth, a young brigadier general from Vicksburg, Mississippi, arrives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, seeking not only victory for his army and freedom from Northern tyranny, but also to prove his worthiness to his father's ghost. Instead, his army suffers defeat, he is wounded, and while recovering in enemy territory, is falsely accused of plotting a heinous crime. With the aid of Faith Bradshaw, a young Yankee woman, and Isaiah Walker, an ex-slave, Jeb embarks on a perilous q... more info>>

Seeking gold, the new white settlers block all Indian access to the Bozeman Trail; they are determined to kill any Indian who comes anywhere near the trail that leads to the gold fields. Red Cloud is not afraid. A Sioux leader, he moves toward the Bozeman Trail, determined to take back the gold fields for his people. A fierce fighter, Red Cloud is ready to stand up to anyone and anything. The settler's primary concern is no longer gold, but escaping death. The Pony Soldiers, their only hope, hav... more info>>

From Jean M. Auel's THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR to Linda Lay Shuler's SHE WHO REMEMBERS, novels set among pre-historic cultures have shown a very strong appeal to readers of all types from fans of genre fantasy to historical to romance. E-Reads is pleased to offer a three-volume series--An Epic of Ancient Tahiti. In the first volume, DAUGHTER OF THE REEF, Tepua, the daughter of an atoll chief is stranded on an unknown island called Tahiti. Despite adversity and peril, she has made a life and foun... more info>>

Harold Gilbert started out as a small-town kid on the vaudeville trouping circuit, and ended up as the world's most popular film comedian. He's got a million-dollar career, his own studio, an estate called Avalon, a cherry-red Bugatti sportscar, a beautiful wife and two children. But in 1927 Hollywood, nothing is quite what it seems?including Harold and everything that seems perfect in his life. His wife Ella, formerly his leading lady in his early comedies, is steeped in alcoholism and growing ... more info>>

Captain Colt Harding, grief-stricken and hungry for revenge, sets out to destroy White Eagle, the Indian who killed his wife and son. White Eagle roams the land raping, pillaging, and murdering, showing no mercy. Captain Harding takes it upon himself to see that this savage be fed to the scavengers. Only with the help of Pony Soldiers, some of the vilest people in existence, will Captain Harding be able to avenge the deaths of his wife and son and rescue his daughter from a life of servitude.

After the apocalypse destroyed what was left of America, Rebel leader Ben Raines helped create the Tri-States. But no system is perfect: criminal gangs still roam the land, spreading havoc and violence. The punks, thugs and creeps have had a free hand for too long-especially in untamed Northern Maine, where a secret sect of underground cannibals threatens the new nation's freedom. It's time for them all to meet judge, jury ... and executioner. If the new U.S. President agrees, Ben Raines and his... more info>>

The last Sapa-Inca dreamed of rings around the moon; one bloody, one greenish-black, and one of smoke. Red meant war between descendants; black threatened religion, and all he'd accomplished would vanish into the ring of smoke. Smoke Around The Moon is a tale of the Spanish Conquest of Peru and its Sapa-Inca, Atahuallpa, as viewed by the simple Felipillo, an Incan peasant who was coopted by the Spanish to be their interpreter. In Felipillo's simple view, the coming of the Spaniards destroyed mor... more info>>

Six passengers on a stage are bushwhacked by three road agents as they try to make it through Eagles Pass before the snow closes it for the winter. Believe it or not, this holiday story has a romantic angle as well

Snow Eagle, Shaman of the Tlingit is well respected by the people of the north. As member of the Elder Council and Shaman he is responsible not only for the safety and welfare of his people but for securing their future. South East Alaska and northern British Columbia is rugged, harsh country and the Tlingit face many obstacles and dangers but nature is not Snow Eagle's worry at the moment. His son, Gray Wolf, a hot-headed warrior, has made a decision that could cost them all their lives. Impuls... more info>>

There rebels on the island Dominion of Santome want to oust the white settlers. Adam, chief of staff of a mixed race army is caught in the middle. Leading his raw troops to engage the enemy while he tries to reconcile his actions with his honor, morals, a humanity. Can he stand up to the pressure of duty and the hazards of his tumultuous love life? Reminiscent of the classic movie, Bhowani Junction, the emergence of racism, and the woes of newly independent colonies are featured in this authenti... more info>>

The Holocaust becomes a breathtaking personal drama, in the midst of a vast cataclysm, in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a big and questing novel with autobiographical elements and a fearless determination to explore a particular human dimension of a historical nightmare. The novel speaks through the voice of Styron's alter ego, a polite young Tidewater Virginian called Stingo who comes to New York in 1947 in the hopes of being a writer. With a small legacy that will enable him to devote hims... more info>>

A society murder, his psychic sister, Jillian,and suspicions of a departmental cover-up, all contribute to the complications that find Jack Abercrombie resigning from Baltimore's Police Department and going on tour with his actress friend Genevieve Desmond during the hurricane-laced summer of 1906. Jill sees the storm coming and tries to warn them, but when have they ever listened to her?

After attempting to burn Mairenn Morgan at the stake for witchcraft, her cousin Sir Adrian Maddox, an evil warlock, pursues Mairenn to the new world of Colonial America. There he links with an Indian Shaman, granting the Shaman power and even immortality in exchange for his support in pursuing first Mairenn and then three more generations of women descending from Mairenn. Because Mairenn's blood holds the one threat to the wizard's ultimate victory.

New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men--a gunner from a B-17 bomber who's a national hero, a magazine editor uprooted from civilian life and attached to the Allied High Command, and the violence-stalked captain of a Royal Merchant Navy freighter--find their destinies linked with three volunteer hostesses from New York's famous Stage Door Canteen. Genevieve Rose is a beautiful Broadway sta... more info>>

The old boy network finds itself turned upside down in chaos and comedy when the 1980s usher young professional women like Samantha Matijevic into the male-dominated Satellite Test Center. Book 3 of the Samantha Matajevic Chronicles