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Angels of Death    by Ravi Chen
Price: Free! 1670 words. Published on October 10, 2010. .

A cautionary tale of good and evil. Tackling the age old question of what happens to us when we die?
First Fleet    by M Howard Morgan
Price: $2.99 USD. 91150 words. Published on January 23, 2011. .

Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia.
Gain by Violence    by R. J. Thomas
Price: $2.99 USD. 14690 words. Published on January 25, 2011. .

On July 2, 1948, three inmates attempted to break out of the most-feared and most-inescapable prison in the world: the Annokea Federal Prison in Bixby, Georgia. Their plan was perfect. They seized one of the main cellblocks in minutes. They took three guards hostage. They made a deal with the warden. Soon they would be on the road to freedom. And then it all began to fall apart.
Drowned Hopes    by Allan Cole
Price: $4.99 USD. 48080 words. Published on February 9, 2011. .

Betrayed by her friends, her family and her lover, Ellen thinks she's reached rock bottom. Then she is tangled in the web of one of the worst villains to ever step out of a cellblock.
Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America    by Anthony Vaver
Price: $3.99 USD. 16230 words. Published on July 3, 2011. .

In 1723, James Bell stole a book from a London bookstall. As punishment, he was loaded on a ship and sent to colonial America, where he was sold as an indentured servant. In telling the epic story of how thousands of British convicts like Bell were separated from families and transported to America in the 18th century, Anthony Vaver challenges the way we think about immigration to early America.
High Desert    by Jordan Rivers
Price: $0.99 USD. 50790 words. Published on July 29, 2011. .

A family is taken hostage by escaped convicts at their isolated ranch in the high desert of Mojave. One of the convicts is actually a gun runner trying to flee before Interpol can come claim him; One of the hostages is a policewoman determined to keep him from escaping. There's just one problem: They fall for each other.
Nathaniel's Bloodline    by Peter Blakeborough
Price: $2.99 USD. 127060 words. Published on September 24, 2011. .

A novel about Australian First Fleet convicts and their families. Nathaniel's Bloodline is based on historical events in the earliest days of convict settlement in New South Wales. It is also about fair-dinkum Aussie battlers chasing their dreams, and running from gangsters and corrupt lawmen.
The Convict and her Doctor    by Ken Humphrey
Price: $2.99 USD. 83250 words. Published on September 30, 2011. .

In 1828, Britain is overcrowded, London is filthy and the lives of the poor are valued less than the city's rats. A Scottish Doctor meets a pretty young working girl while enjoying a night out on the town. Little does he know that their lives are destined to intertwine, even on the far side of the Earth. Life in Australian colonies has its challenges.
Jeremy Kane: A Canadian historical adventure novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the Australian penal colonies.    by Sidney Allinson
Price: $7.99 USD. 116240 words. Published on October 30, 2011. .

Jeremy Kane: A Canadian Historical Adventure Novel Of The 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion And Its Brutal Aftermath In The Australian Penal Colonies. A young Ontario rebel's adventures in love, politics and war, amidst violent events that helped shape Canada's early nationhood. Romantically involved with two beautiful and very different young sisters, Jeremy is caught up in the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion.
Letters of a Convict Girl, Age 11    by Kate Walker
Price: $0.99 USD. 8100 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .

At age 11 Rosie O'Brien is sentenced to 14 years in prison and transported to the other side of the world – the far Colony of New South Wales. In this wild place she has only herself to rely on. Her letters home record the trials, hardships and miracles that befall her. Somewhere in this God forsaken land is her convict father, but is he alive? Based on actual convict experiences.