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Let Us Be! A Mining Saga: Is the Gold Worth the Water    by Chris F. Fotheringham
Price: Free! 136080 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

Spawned by a modern-day gold boom, family turmoil and social unrest draw Bud Foster and Sarah Stetson back to their home town in northern Nevada, only to find death, danger and deceit threatening to derail their renewed love.
The Ghoul    by John Joseph Connelly
Price: Free! 101440 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Horror » General.

The Ghoul is a Gothic horror set in the slums of Barcelona, 1895. A young and inexperienced priest arrives in El Raval and discovers a world of crime, poverty and disease. Soon after his arrival children start to go missing in the neighborhood. At the same time he learns of local people rumored to be practicing black magic, casting spells powerful enough to raise the dead from their graves...
Huntsville: A Story of Post Civil War Texas    by Glynn Rogers
Price: Free! 113590 words. Language: English. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Huntsville, Texas, 1874: Jacob Magruder, a former Texas Ranger, receives a pardon from his prison sentence. Soon he meets a beautiful widow whose husband has just been robbed and killed by highwaymen. Magruder vows to catch the killers and recover the lady's money. And this adventure leads to romance.
The Cry For Freedom, Winds of Betrayal Book One    by Jerri Hines
Price: Free! 53400 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Colonial America.

A rousing family saga for the fight for America's independence. Tension against the crown is mounting. The rebellion burns strong in the hearts of two siblings, Jonathan and Hannah Corbett—spirited and headstrong, Hannah finds herself thrust in the middle of a conspiracy. Jonathan is torn between duty and family. The siblings soon discover there is a high price to be paid for the cry for freedom.
Angelica's Act    by D. Allen Henry
Price: Free! 73530 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure.

When twenty-one year old Grant Sutherland, heir to the Earldom of Winston, enlists his friend Angelica in a costume contest, little does he know that a heinous crime will lead to Angelica’s disappearance. Grant subsequently vows to never give up until he has paid for his treatment of Angelica. He enlists in the U.S. Army and is sent into action in The Vietnam War. But will he find redemption?
Felicite's Fact    by D. Allen Henry
Price: Free! 66530 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure.

(4.00 from 1 review)
When twenty year old Felicité challenges Trant Sutherland, heir to the Earldom of Winston, to a game of tennis on the eve of The Battle of Britain in 1940, little does she know that losing will dramatically alter her life. Subsequently volunteering to become a spy to restore the respect of Trant, she is unfortunately captured by the Germans. Will a world at war end her dream of redemption?
Stowaway Heart    by Patricia Strefling
Price: Free! 70550 words. Language: English. Published on May 1, 2013. Fiction » Christian » Romance.

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Francine Louise Devin hovers on a dark dock in Devon, England. Fifteen and alone she huddles in the night -- she must be on the last ship to France before the snow flies. Frannie does the unthinkable and sneaks aboard The Antonia, becoming a stowaway.
Tug River Murder    by James Knox
Price: Free! 52330 words. Language: English. Published on April 24, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical.

This is a fictional murder mystery set in 1897 at the site of the Hatfield & McCoy feud. Deputy Sheriff Richard James, a Canadian, finds himself having to juggle cultural differences, grief over the recent loss of his wife and son, and a murder investigation, after a McCoy is found dead from a snakebite. The death threatens to reignite the Hatfield/McCoy feud as Richard struggles to solve it.
Elizabeth's Heart    by M.L. Gardner
Price: Free! 82420 words. Language: English. Published on April 23, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Paranormal.

Simon Sinclair, who is institutionalized for having prophetic visions, narrates from inside the Massachusetts Asylum for Feeble Minds and Lunatics. There he meets Elizabeth, a young woman with a shadow personality and a dark, secretive past. Someone Simon knows he is destined to love.
The Moss Garden Journal Of Chan Wing Tsit    by Richard Bell
Price: Free! 82700 words. Language: American English. Published on April 19, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

1750. A young Buddhist priest traveling to Korea is caught in storm, driven across the Pacific and shipwrecked. Lacking survival skills, he is taken in by the local people who are far from the barbarians he expected; complex, political, sophisticated, urbane and multilingual,they are a community of traders and priests with deep cultural and spiritual ways and little need for his Buddhist dharma.