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How to Electrocuate an Elephant    by David Edgerley Gates
Price: Free! 1730 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.

Topsy killed George Fennady today. She maneuvered him into the corner of her pen and crushed him against the walls. It may have been an accident, of course, but I doubt it. This is the third death she’s caused in three years.
The Devil's Justice    by Chad Cull
Price: Free! 36800 words. Language: English. Published by Monogram Press  on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

Vengeance is the Devil's Justice! When Jace Carlin's family is killed by drunken marauders, he goes on aquest for vengeance until he settles the score. With his mission complete, he finds no satisfaction in what he has done. He is alone and haunted by the violence and killing he has left behind him. When a brewing range war draws him into taking sides, he once again takes up his gun to kill.
Nineteen Hundred    by Susan Koenig
Price: $0.99 USD. 8050 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Victorian.

December 31,1899. At a dinner, hosted by her landlady, to celebrate the new century,Kathryn St. Clair meets sophisticated and handsome Gideon Thomas. His air of mystery speaks to her romantic imagination. His secrets forbid him from answering her questions. He fears the truth would throw her into madness. Their new love may end drastically before it begins.
When Fate Dictates    by Elizabeth Marshall
Price: Free! 90460 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Historical.

'Dying’, Corran is mysteriously saved from death by a Highland Stag. Confused and alone, she makes her way back to Glencoe where she comes face to face with, Simon Campbell, a Red Coat, deserter and traitor. With her family massacred and her village destroyed, Corran trusts the fugitive when he offers to help her escape.
Life and Death at Agua Prieta    by W. Michael Farmer
Price: $0.99 USD. 14910 words. Language: English. Published by Lee Emory on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

Short Historical western story. Setting: 1915
The Secrets of the Sibyl: a short story    by Nancy Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. 5930 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

"The Secrets of the Sibyl" is a short Gothic tale set in the Roman world of 382 A.D. When her father buys a decaying villa on the wild, rocky coast of Cumae, city of the ancient Sibyline oracle, fourteen-year-old Cellina finds mysteries at every turn. Following the trail of a mysterious silver box, she uncovers the secret of a decades-old crime committed within the villa's crumbling walls.
Reefer Ranger (Lost DMB Files #9)    by David Mark Brown
Price: $0.99 USD. 9840 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

"Blood soaked and terse, J.T. McCutchen is an epic anti-hero in the making." A devout man of the law, Ranger McCutchen has vowed to tame the wild borderlands of early twentieth century Texas, but at what cost? Fractured, both physically and emotionally, the once singular man is forced to either reinterpret himself or the world around him.
The Wild One    by Danelle Harmon
Price: $0.99 USD. 112450 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Romance » Historical.

"The bluest of blood, the boldest of hearts; the de Montforte brothers will take your breath away." England, 1776: When Lord Gareth de Montforte thwarts a stagecoach robbery, he unwittingly finds himself inheriting his dead brother's fiancee and infant baby in this breathtaking first book in the De Montforte Brothers series by critically acclaimed author Danelle Harmon.
Powerful Spirits    by Scott  Roche
Price: $0.99 USD. 6220 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Paranormal.

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Dr. Emil Lazarus, town drunk and physician to the unserved Chinese in 1906 San Francisco, is able to see and speak to the town's deceased population. Long time companion and ghostly philosopher Chin Lao brings him dire news of a creature that is consuming the local spirits and may eventually jeopardize the living. Defeating it may require Doc to join his only friends prematurely.
Wise Men    by Lonon Smith
Price: Free! 87850 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Classical Greece & Rome.

Khefren is ordered to shadow a mysterious African on his way to Roman Palestine. They join a caravan of well armed emissaries from Rome’s hated Parthian Empire rivals to the east. Old prophecies have the local Roman ruler worried ... and Khefren becomes all that stands between a young Jewish girl (pregnant she claims with her people’s messiah) and the mad ruler who wants her dead