Category: Historical Fiction

Discovery in the Desert

So you think that being a “good person” is a free ticket to heaven? That is exactly what NASA’s, David Hart, thinks. That is, until he meets Jesus Christ face to face! David is on a top-secrect NASA team assigned to harness a new, cutting-edge technology for the organization—Time Travel. When the project’s progress hits a brick wall, this grates on David’s nerves. Young and impatient, David chooses to do the unthinkable! $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Munich Girl: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast War

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna uncovers a web of long-buried secrets, including those in her own heart, to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that alway... [Read More...]

MAKAHA

Archaeologists make an exciting discovery during the ongoing excavations in Pompeii Italy. The earliest known New Testament writings buried almost two thousand years ago when Vesuvius erupted. Verifiable texts that could bring revolutionary changes to the world’s secular, religious, and political paradigms. Stolen from Italian authorities a worldwide hunt that started in Amsterdam ends in the waters of Oahu’s west side, the valley and beach named for the outlaws that once populated ... [Read More...]

Damned Yankees

Those who fight their nation’s wars are typically those least able to avoid it. The world was, is now, and always will be a complicated and volatile place filled with those whose self-interests supersede more noble aspirations. If history has taught us anything, it is that times may change, but human nature does not. The competing interests and political tensions of the formation of our country were no more or less dysfunctional than they are today, with the best and worst of individual behav... [Read More...]

The Lost Page: An Archaeological Thriller

A well-paced, dual-timeline novel that spans centuries, connecting the perilous journey of John Mark during the Roman siege of Jerusalem to a modern-day search for the original scroll of the Gospel of Mark he left behind. Joe Edd Morris uses richly detailed historical settings while presenting compelling characters driven by their pursuit of truth. $1.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Rainbow’s End: 20th Anniversary Edition

A Confederate raiding party from Canada commandeers a Lake Erie ferry boat in Put-in-Bay and plans to free 2,000 Confederate prisoners on nearby Johnson Island while a spy schemes to destroy the Union gunboat in Sandusky Bay. The raid is complicated by a seedy French-Canadian, a mysterious trunk and a body found on Rattlesnake Island where rainbows end. One hundred forty plus years later, Emerson Moore, an investigative reporter struggling with the tragic death of his wife and son, returns to v... [Read More...]

Chasing Eleanor

Newly orphaned Magnolia Parker must protect her sick little brothers, but when the authorities send the boys to an unknown orphan asylum, Magnolia calls on her unwavering grit to bring them home. Magnolia sets out on a cross-country quest, as she has a secret weapon: a promise from Eleanor Roosevelt, the most famous woman in America. She joins force with two unlikely travelers, and after an assault, they’re forced to outrun the police, all while trying to track down the First Lady. But ti... [Read More...]

And Union No More

In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act creates a path for slavery to expand. Northerners and southerners rush settlers to the Kansas Territory, seeking to gain the majority. Guerrilla warfare results. Fictional characters interact with historical figures (including abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln), as the United States moves closer to civil war. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

A Murder on Allen Street

Time: the late nineteenth century. Place: the city of New York, a mecca for the ambitious and the corrupt where the poor barely survive on the wages for their fourteen-hour work day. Crime is at its highest, higher than it will be in all of the city’s history. Nevertheless, the burgeoning city is alive with possibilities. This is the setting for a different kind of coming-of-age story. Sixteen-year-old Rivka Lenski, a recent Russian Jewish immigrant and orphan, cannot even read or write E... [Read More...]