Historical Fiction

The winner of the National Book Award and many other honors, Gore Vidal is one of America's best regarded novelists and essayists. Throughout his career, Gore Vidal has rubbed shoulders and crossed swords with many of the foremost cultural and political figures of our century: from Jack Kennedy to Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote to William F. Buckley. Over a twenty-five period, Gore Vidal created a series of seven novels, which together are referred to as his American Chronicle novels. These novels ... more info>>

By Way of the Rose opens in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee are being moved from the Carolinas to Oklahoma Indian Territory. The DuVal's get entangled in a saga of love, hate and bitter hostilities when they befriend a battered Cherokee woman who leaves them with an unexpected gift.

Surviving the War Between the States had made young Sergeant Ed Cade superbly adept at killing. Returning to the ruins of his family's farm, Cade discovered that his parents hadn't survived the war years. He also discovered that he no longer had any interest in farming. After leasing his land to others, Cade set forth to find or make some kind of a future for himself amid the bitter aftermath of the American Civil War.

Set during the reign of the Emperor Commodus, here is Talbot Mundy's tale of palace intrigue, the brutalities and debaucheries of Rome, and a man who would make himself ruler of the civilized world! Features an introduction by scholar Darrell Schweitzer.

A rapist is loose in London?and he has plans for Marguerite Wiggins. Grippingly suspenseful and romantic, CALL ME DUCHESS is one young woman's stunning journey to find love in 1870s London while a dashingly handsome chaperone, a heinous villain, and her own lofty aspirations stand in her way. Left penniless by their father, Marguerite Wiggins and her sisters must find husbands during the London season or find work as governesses by season's end. Determined to become the next Duchess of Wallingf... more info>>

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a "thief and pirate." Even when he destroys England's enemies, even at his most triumphant ... but wait! Is that ... A classic novel and the model for a generation of writers.

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>>

In a small fictional town in the northeast corner of Massachusetts a mysterious package from out of the past had the residents buzzing. The original recipient had long since passed, and the sender of the package had died at sea in a tragedy that stunned the world. Where had this package been all these years, and why, even if it was postmarked the year it was sent, was it never delivered? When the present day recipient received the mysterious package, he wondered if he opened it, would he be open... more info>>

I was leading my mule, Roscoe, into town to be shod, uncertain what I was going to do after, when I saw the wagons. I knew where they were headed--west. West to Oregon. They weren't the first to come through and I'd probably have paid them no mind, except for three things. First, it was one of those fine early April days that starts the sap to running and just naturally makes a man's foot start to itch. Second, Pa and me had a fair-sized argument that morning and I was still feeling rankled. The... more info>>

Caves, Cannons and Crinolines is the story of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Stamford and her family's daily struggle to survive a changing way of life during the American Civil War. This is a story of fear, courage, and understanding that people, no matter where they live, have the same needs: love, peace and security.

Matthew Smith seizes Sarah Lloyd and her family as prisoners on a clear autumn day. Leading a party of British deserters, he now holds the family hostage north of Saratoga, New York. The Americans have just won a decisive battle, the turning point in their revolution, but Matthew's turning point is yet to come. On another battlefield in Pennsylvania, the Lloyd's oldest son struggles to find meaning in this war, while his twin sister remains trapped inside the British-occupied, rebel-capital of P... more info>>

In the fiery aftermath of apocalypse, America, as we knew it, disappeared--and was reborn as the Tri-States. Under the Rebel law of Ben Raines, there are no slums, no gangs, and no crime. But a new breed of anarchists and malcontents have banded together to destroy everything Ben Raines and his army have risked their lives--and the future of a new America--to build. As devastating civil war turns race against race, brother against brother, and the nation's once-peaceful citizens into a modern-da... more info>>

Chesapeake Harvest visits Maryland''s Eastern Shore with the earliest colonists where they battle harsh weather, fever and swarms of mosquitoes to forge a new land. Voyage across the sea with Mary Charles and share her life on a frontier farm as an indentured servant. Learn the ways of country life with a woman who holds love as an ideal to guide her life. Come to Chesapeake country!

The family saga continues, as Hannah tries to find her place between two worlds. Raised by the English colonists, she is forced from her home and sent off to fend for herself, because of her Indian heritage. At last, she finds a place among the Native American people. But where will she find love?

Chesapeake Series, vol. 4 by Terry L. White Jewel LeCompte is raised to be a lady, her blindness notwithstanding, but the events of the Civil War introduce her to the harsh reality of the work that goes with running an Eastern Shore plantation. After the war, Jewel marries Carroll Taylor, who takes her home to the plantation known as Baron's Hope. Happy and expecting her first child, Jewel is finally learning to read Braille through the help of a tutor from Baltimore. Unfortunately Carroll is ... more info>>

In 1841, St. Louis businessman Guy Strauss had sent his hopes, his son, and his money up the Missouri River to the Yellowstone, where he was opening a trading post under the command of a wild mountain man named Broken Leg Fitzhugh. Strauss knew the plan was fraught with danger. But he didn't know how many ways it could go wrong, or who would be the first to die. The Rocky Mountain Company had an enemy in a rival company, and Fitzhugh--fierce, profane, and proud--had one very deadly enemy of his ... more info>>

Born to commoners, Imhotep grows to become a scribe, a healer, an architect, and a high priest. He battles barbarians, rebellious nobles, and the invasion of his Egypt by a voracious empire. This is a story of love, adventure, intrigue, and magic, set in Egypt's Old Kingdom.

What would people do if they found her childhood toys lying in the street? Act selfishly? Miss Terry tossed each toy one by one to the snowy sidewalk in front of her house. But her heart is moved when she sees the Christmas Angel kicked aside. Remembering all the years it graced her family mantel, she rushes to rescue it. Back inside, the Christmas Angel comes to life, and reveals the actual destiny for each toy, and for Miss Terry, that she could have never imagined. A stirring reminder of what... more info>>

Clearwater is an action novel set in 1879. The story revolves around the exploits of a small town in the Indian Territory. Its small bank is robbed by a murderer who has just escaped execution. He kills three men in the process of escaping and robbing. In his escape, he almost burns the town down. The town springs in to action and quickly forms a posse consisting of the aged sheriff, a retired Pinkerton Operative, Indian scout, and the bank's president. The president wants to catch the robber so... more info>>

Tired of the evil doings of the government in Washington, the Comanches go on a rampage. Sick of dealing with corrupt whiskey traders, they devote themselves to destroying the lives of the settlers. They go through the land like an unstoppable force, the finger of God, stealing, raping, and murdering. The only group with any chance of stopping the Comanches is the equally bloodthirsty Pony Soldiers. Which side will surrender first?

Still in pursuit, the Pony Soldiers get closer and closer to White Eagle, the kidnapper. He put the noose around his own neck the minute he enslaved Major Harding's daughter. Now he is being hunted like a dog, and the Pony Soldiers have no intention of showing any mercy. They want to tear White Eagle apart and feed him to the buzzards. His death draws nearer as the unrelenting, unstoppable Pony Soldiers seek his head.

Young Jonathan Sullivane (the fictional son of the patriot James Sullivane) and Billy "Cacao" Logan are sent with urgence on a seemingly short trip. But the two friends soon find themselves enlisting as "Secret Agents" for General George Washington. As the Revolutionary War progresses, they mature into dedicated young men, who find danger, horror, laughter and love.

On a summer day in 1945, Louisa Gordon receives a telegram from the International Red Cross Tracing Service. Her young cousin, Elisabeth, has just been released from Dachau, a concentration camp, and Louisa is her only remaining relative. Determined to go to war-torn Germany to retrieve her cousin, Louisa is also on a mission to discover the whereabouts of Friedrich Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer who fled Copper Springs, Arizona. What Louisa never expected was to meet the man she had once loved. ... more info>>

Smuggled out of Nazi Germany after working in the resistance, Louisa finds herself waiting out the war in a dusty Arizona copper mining town. Sponsored by the Reverend Robert Gordon, Louisa quickly discovers he is hiding a tragic secret. Louisa irritates, intrigues, and charms Robert, soon becoming an indispensable part of his household. Trouble begins to brew when Friedrich Mueller, a prominent resident of Copper Springs and avid Nazi sympathizer, ferrets out Louisa's background. Soon Louisa i... more info>>

"I'm gonna die," screams Cosmo, a failed Navy parachute streaming behind him as his body hurtles earthward. Yet he survives. How? Was his unlikely birth in an Italian farmer's field in 1922 an omen of the untoward circumstances that would later characterize his life? Ministered to in the critical moments of his life by a mysterious "spooky" lady, Cosmo stumbles through countless storms of life: forced to fight with the Italian Army in WW II against his fellow Americans, gut-wrenching failed ro... more info>>