Historical Fiction category: 74504 books

*“These stories were being read by men who’d been there, done that. I had to have the personalities and the details right. They wouldn’t tolerate having men like themselves overly glorified, or to have war made glamorous. . . .”  * Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was...

It’s Munich 1931. In a plush apartment in Prinzregentenplatz, Geli Raubal is eight months pregnant and dying. She has shot herself after being ordered to ‘get rid of the child’ by the father, a man the world would shortly know as ‘The Fuhrer’. With Geli’s last breath, the baby takes his...

A historical short story with magic. Germany, 1924. Ingeborg goes back to the family estate for the first time after her father died at war. She doesn't think she still care for the place, but when the maze where she used to wander with her father is threatened to be taken down, she starts...

"Jesse Blackadder has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. . . . In The Raven's Heart she doesn't hit one wrong note."—The Sunday Telegraph Scotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the...

"In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Palombo has married fine art with romantic historical fiction in this lush and sensual interpretation of Medici Florence, artist Sandro Botticelli, and the muse that inspired them all." - Booklist A girl as beautiful...

The tale of King Arthur and his knights has been told and retold countless times over a thousand years.  According to legend, the king’s tomb is marked by the cryptic inscription, “Here lies Arthur, the Once and Future King.”  And although this epithet is meant to signify the promise of Arthur’s...

Vainglory begins in France in 1429, the year of the Siege of Orleans, as Victoire de Gloriole regains possession of the family castle from the English following the Battle of Agincourt. Having consolidated his position by marrying a beautiful Englishwoman, Victoire sets out to rebuild a dynasty and a...

*A historical romance meets a grown-up fairy tale! * A Charming Fairy Tale, Book 1 Rapunzel knows no other existence but her life in her tower, carrying for her twenty ells of golden hair and obeying her strict mother.  She would love to feel the grass between her toes and touch...

FOR BETTER OR CURSE. That might as well have been the wedding vow of Elle Chance and her new husband, the ex-Warlock Hugh Marsh in the second book of this edgy new series that transforms elements of urban fantasy, historical adventure, and paranormal romance into storytelling magic. ** ** As Elle...

For romance and urban fantasy fans and readers of Gail Carriger’s Changeless and Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker, thisthrilling historical fantasy adventure features warlocks, fairies, and the unforgettable heroine—the daring dirigible pilot Elle Chance—who navigates the realms between the Light...

Hunted by demons. Lost in time. Welcome to the First Crusade. Syria, 636: As heretic invaders circle Jerusalem, young Lukas Bessarion vows to defend his people. Instead, disaster strikes. His family is ripped apart. His allies are slaughtered. And Lukas is hurled across the centuries...

Pendant que leurs frères bâtissent la célèbre entreprise de petits gâteaux, Béatrice et Rédempteur Vachon, les autres enfants de Rose-Anna, choisissent d'emprunter un chemin différent. Si Béatrice prend le voile et décide de donner...

E.C. Ambrose's gritty, sharp historical fantasy series, The Dark Apostle, follows Elisha Barber through a magical reimagining of 14th-century England Elisha, a barber-surgeon from the poorest streets of benighted fourteenth-century London, has come a long way from home. He was always skilled...

When orphan Owen Morgan is taken in by his uncle, his future seems secure. Growing up, Owen and his eldest cousin Jane plan to marry. But mere weeks before the wedding, Owen falls passionately in love with another woman. Banished from his uncle's house, Owen returns to his native South Wales, where unresolved...