fiction on history setting
09/02/2026 Michael Andoscia – Historical Fiction – Stone is not Forever is a classic immigrant’s tale. Young Dominico Rossa left his paesera for the opportunities offered by the United States at the turn of the 20th century. He hoped to make enough money to return to Italy as a man of respect, save his destroyed … Read more
Louis Angellotti – Organized Crime, Historical Fiction – What’s Done is Done takes readers into the hazy backrooms and busy streets of Prohibition-era Chicagoland, where mysteries hide in every dark corner. The story’s rich setting, layered characters, and themes of loyalty, ambition, and betrayal carry readers into a world filled with duplicity and danger. Louis … Read more
08/02/2026 Jack Head – Historical Fiction – Volunteers helping others, put their families’ lives at risk in The Wheel, a book on those who risked it all for the lives of others. Author Jack Head has combined his passion for genealogy with his decades-long study of the involvement of everyday people who opened their homes … Read more
07/22/2026 Lori Joan Swick -Historical Fiction – Thirteen hundred years after her death, Saint Cecilia’s body is exhumed from her grave and young artist Stefano Maderno is commissioned by the pope to sculpt her likeness. In this gripping tale of passion and agony, two lives separated by centuries are united in their search for purity … Read more
08/31/2025 by Curtis P. Ayers III -Historical Fiction, (Travel, Adventure & Romance) C. P. Tertius is a pseudonym for a former military officer, corporate executive and university professor who is a semi-professional musician, blue-water sailor and adventure traveler. He has attained both civilian and military graduate and post-graduate diplomas and has been published technically under … Read more
08/24/2025 by Lori Joan Swick Historical Fiction Thirteen hundred years after her death, Saint Cecilia’s body is exhumed from her grave and young artist Stefano Maderno is commissioned by the pope to sculpt her likeness. In this gripping tale of passion and agony, two lives separated by centuries are united in their search for purity … Read more
by DL Havlin Historical Fiction Random events and coincidence fashion this story that sits on a knife’s edge between historical fact and historical fiction. The novels subject: the development of a machine that saved thousands of Marines in WW II and the men who were responsible. Real lives of the historical protagonists and the events … Read more
by Lori Joan Swick Historical Fiction Comfort and Mirth offers a rare glimpse into the capital city of Texas during the early decades of the twentieth century and brings into play the formation of the Texas suffrage movement, Prohibition, the treatment of the mentally ill, and the first round of controversies over the Jim Crow … Read more
The Story of ‘The Fierce People’ by Edward Donlin Historical Fiction Ewat, a Calusa Indian boy, was a member of the powerful southwest Florida tribe, who dominated their world until his birth in 1500 and the arrival of Columbus and the following Conquistadors. His coming-of-age story explains the tribe’s adjustments to the new challenges to … Read more
