Fiction » Historical » USA

Deceptive Hearts    by Cynthia Owens
Price: $3.99 USD. 101100 words. Language: English. Published by Highland Press Publishing on June 19, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

He survived war, and returned to devastation... A hero of the Irish Brigade, Shane MacDermott returned to New York to find his family decimated and his world shattered. She risks her life to save the people she loves... Lydia Daniels will risk anything to protect the women she shelters beneath the roof of her elegant Gramercy Park mansion-even if she has to trust the one man who can destroy her.
The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson    by Nancy Peacock
Price: $9.99 USD. 112370 words. Language: English. Published on June 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

“‘I have been to hangings before, but never my own…’ Thus begins the retelling of Persimmon Wilson's journey to find his true love. He goes from a Louisiana slave plantation to a Texas ranch, to riding with the Comanches, to Drunken Bride, TX, where he will be hanged. His is a love story, an adventure story, and a very American saga.
The Legend of Stuckey's Bridge    by Lori Crane
Price: $2.99 USD. 47300 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller.

In 1901, the Virginia Bridge & Iron Company began re-building a fifty-year-old Mississippi bridge and discovered bodies buried on the banks of the river. In earlier days, flatboats witnessed him on the bridge at night, waving a lantern, offering travelers a hot meal and a soft bed. Not much else is known about the man locals refer to as Old Man Stuckey...until now.
A Union of Brothers    by Steven Kirk
Price: $4.25 USD. 55630 words. Language: American English. Published on June 13, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Firman Kirk, a young lumberman working in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, was recruited to join an elite unit of sharpshooters for the Union army shortly after confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter. His sense of duty to Country outweighed the trepidation he felt in exposing himself to the realities of war.
Cry No More    by Leonard Thomas
Price: $4.99 USD. 195660 words. Language: English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Adventure » War & military.

Jump into a fast paced thriller set in 1978 where a young Damien Borceu is on the verge of becoming a serial killer as he joins the CIA with a secret agenda of unbridled mayhem and murder. He becomes part of a plot by his new employer, Doctor Charlene Brighton, to avenge the murder of her family. The story is a mixture of medical thriller, spy novel and military action.
The Trouble With Cass:A Civil War Era Murder Mystery    by C. B.. Huesing
Price: $1.99 USD. 30850 words. Language: English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

The Trouble With Cass is and exciting and romantic mystery set in the Civil War era. Cass Brooks is a beautiful, intelligent, and resourceful young woman with few scruples. An underlying murder plot with an unforgetable ending makes this a good read. It's a colorful whodunit with some unforeseen twists.
The Quadrant: At the Crossroads of Anjier    by Kimberly Raikes
Price: $2.99 USD. 223700 words. Language: English. Published on June 11, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Second in a 3-volume narrative set in 19th century New England and on the high seas. In Volume II, Maine native Capt. Ben Melchett and Welsh Romany seaman James Robertson narrow the gaps in culture, work and belief. Mediated by the hand of first mate Eben McCabe, they move closer to their true vocations. Though they come within sight of their landfall, it is the sea which has the final word.
Bounty For Booth    by Scott Westmoreland
Price: $7.99 USD. 71980 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Who is Gabe Stone? And what secret does he harbor surrounding the Lincoln assassination? Reality bumps into the bizarre when a memoir is found beneath the deathbed of Jeremy Gabrick Stone, who journals his life as a scenic designer for actors Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. But when he paints a portrait of President Lincoln, and a fast friendship is forged, all roads lead to tragedy...or do they?
The Last Summer of Love    by Gary Ernst
Price: $3.99 USD. 66590 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Set in New York City during the summer of 1970, The Last Summer of Love focuses on one family, the Sevens, especially on two twenty-one-year-old cousins, Kiel and Katy. The novel follows family members as they navigate the radically changing urban culture and adapt to new attitudes toward gender, religion, authority, war, drugs, and sex.
Dream of Time    by Nancy J Price
Price: $3.99 USD. 151450 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

Each night, when Robin drifts off to sleep, she finds herself dreaming about the life of a woman in the Victorian age. She soon realizes it’s not a dream at all, but she is truly slipping into San Francisco’s past. With the help of a rookie police officer, Robin takes off on a spellbinding adventure, sifting through a century’s worth of clues to untangle history.