Summon Your Dragons    by Roger Parkinson
Price: Free! 154160 words. Published on July 4, 2009. .
Is Azkun an ancient hero returned to save them all or just a madman with absurd ideas about dragons? The King of Anthor has no time for ancient heroes and even less time for dragons. Old crimes are coming back to haunt him and old enemies are stirring on his borders. His last hopes may lie with Azkun, whoever he is. This is a gritty fantasy with no elves anywhere.

Dream of the Dragon Pool -- A Daoist Quest    by Albert Dalia
Price: $9.99 USD. 94660 words. Published by Pleasure Boat Studio on August 11, 2009. .
Dream of the Dragon Pool – A Daoist Quest is a multifaceted novel woven around the historical fact of the death-sentence exile of China’s best-loved poet-adventurer, Li Bo (also known as Li Bai, 701-762 A.D.). This is an adventure story of magic and myth that involves the occult powers of an ancient Chinese shape-shifting vampire written in traditional Chinese-style wuxia (heroic) novel form.

Dragons Heart    by RD Le Coeur
Price: $2.99 USD. 67400 words. Published on August 14, 2009. .
A naïve but athletic shepherd boy from West Wales in 75AD enters the competitions at the spring fair with a view to winning the Dragons Heart. Little does he know what awaits the overall winner of the events. Murder, mystery, adventure, love & betrayal played out across the ancient landscapes with brutal and often gritty realism. Dragons Heart...quality fantasy rooted in real history.

Viking Saga    by Mark Coakley
Price: Free! 69630 words. Published on November 7, 2009. .
Viking Saga is a pulse-pounding literary historical thriller, set in 793 AD, when Norway was ruled by many small kingdoms and folk still worshipped the old gods. Halfdan the Black -- a young fighter and beer-soaked poet, with a Norse father and African mother -- vows revenge for the killing of his king. Halfdan's fate leads him through real historical events, eg the raid on the Lindisfarne nunnery

Shadow Song    by Lorina Stephens
Price: $4.95 USD. 87640 words. Published by Five Rivers Chapmanry on November 17, 2009. .
Based upon a true tragedy, Shadow Song is set amid the economic ruin that occurred to so many émigrés and British pensioned officers of the 1830s. It is full of psychological and cultural contrasts of two cultures at odds with one another, and an intimate familiarity with pioneer and Ojibwa culture.

Ars Magica    by Judith Tarr
Price: $3.99 USD. 73710 words. Published by Book View Cafe on February 14, 2010. .
This is a true story. Once there was a boy whose soul soared so high that no simple farmstead could contain him. A wise teacher took him from his father’s farm and taught him all that the teacher knew; then sent him on to greater teachers, until the boy arrived at the pinnacle of the world. Emperors bowed before him; princes of the Church yielded to his will. But the boy had a secret…

Prophet of Israel    by Timothy Wilkinson
You set the price! 149670 words. Published on April 21, 2010. .
Darkness threatens to consume Israel. High Priest Eli allows corruption to infect even the Tabernacle, the holiest place in the land. Hordes of Philistines ravage the countryside, led by a merciless warlord and bolstered by the might of a race of giants. As battle rages between Israel and their enemies, the key to their survival waits, ignorant of his destiny. A child. A seer. A Prophet of Israel.

Cameo the Assassin    by Dawn McCullough White
Price: $0.99 USD. 57350 words. Published on June 12, 2010. .
~Sometimes the anti-hero is the only hero you can find. Scarred and jaded Cameo is one of the most formidable assassins in the employ of the Association. She moves from one mission to the next as long as the alcohol keeps flowing, until the day she meets two dashing highwaymen who unwittingly throw in with the dangerous and otherworldly Cameo. But that's really where the story begins...

The Great Belzoni and the Gait of Anubis    by W.D. Gagliani
Price: $0.99 USD. 9950 words. Published on July 10, 2010. .
Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian circus strongman and one of the earliest European antiquities procurers. Also one of the first Europeans inside the Great Pyramid. I gave him a "chronicler" in the Sherlock Holmes vein and a new set of supernatural adventures fit for an explorer of his caliber. Followed by short-short "The Great Belzoni and the Monster of Goa," this novella is 9800 words.

Surviving the Elephant    by Lisa Silverthorne
Price: $0.99 USD. 4070 words. Published by Elusive Blue Fiction  on July 26, 2010. .
After losing his brother to war, a young man fights to protect his father during of the Battle of Antietam, one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles.