Inspirational Historical Fiction

Beyond the sea lies ancient, Celtic Ireland, a proud land where tradition is everything and travel through the wild can mean slavery or death. There the Roman evangelist, Saint Patrick, carries a message of love, hope, and salvation - a message that threatens kingdoms, rulers, and powerful druid advisors. When Taran mac Teague joins the fight, he promises his beloved Laurna he’ll return. But will he? Can he? Or will the realm of spiritual darkness prove too strong?

It is the year AD 62. The notorious Roman emperor Nero orders Marco Junio Vitalis, a seasoned military general, to assist him in a most peculiar legal proceeding. Vitalis interrogates an elderly Jewish fisherman named Peter, who many years earlier had been a close friend of a man known as Jesus - the same Jesus condemned to death in Jerusalem by Pontius Pilate.

It will take a whole lot of faith, plus plenty of detective work, for Ellie and her new friends to figure out the next puzzle in the ongoing Twin Creeks saga! Ellie Harris, a woman as intent on an adventure as she is on writing romance novels, packs up and moves out west to California to be with the love of her life, Jeremy Lotter. However, as much as Ellie loves adventure, she doesn’t bargain on the craziness of tiny Twin Creeks, California. Within days of arriving, Ellie is swept up into a life-threatening mystery. When the dust clears, will Jeremy forgive her for her deception? And ...

Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Mary moves West as a mail-order bride, expecting hardship but not love. After losing her parents and living under a cruel guardian, she escapes to marry John, a retired Texas Ranger with no plans for love. Arriving in Settler's Creek, she finds him drunk outside a saloon, fearing she’s made a mistake. As they navigate their new life, past wounds begin to heal, and deeper feelings emerge. But when disaster strikes, they must lean on each other—and their faith—to survive. Historical Mail Order Bride of ...

Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king.

She’s making a run toward hope, love, and family and she’s not letting go. Orphaned as a young girl, Ella longs for a life she’s only read about in books. To escape a desperate situation, she heads west as a mail-order bride, narrowing her choice of spouse to three brothers, a millwright, a businessman, and a horse trainer, all searching for a marriage of convenience which will provide the inheritance that will finance the family’s business venture in Oklahoma. Newspapers claim the unchartered territory is a land where streams flow with milk and the heavens rain down a supply of ...

Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. Meet 21-year-old Rose Sinclair, she was young and naive and married a bad man that ended in disaster. She has written to Eva Crabtree and hope of some help with her future. Meet Anna, a spoiled wealthy girl who never lifted a finger in her life to do anything. She just wants to marry a rich man and has no clue about what it takes to be a new frontier woman! Also, buxom Laura from a large family and is used to hard work, desperately seeking a man out West due to the fact there are no men in her town. Can ...

A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of World War I. Each author was invited to choose an object that had a connection to the war - a writing kit for David Almond, a helmet for Michael Morpurgo - and use it as the inspiration for an original short story.

"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." If you just heaved a contented sigh at Mr. Darcy's heartfelt words, then you, dear listener, are in good company. Here is a delightful collection of never-before-published stories inspired by Jane Austen - her novels, her life, her wit, her world.

Castle Marlowe is an artist who travels to small South Alabama towns in 1914, preaching in rural schools, where he illustrates his sermons with chalkboard sketches. After his wife drowns, he finds it difficult to balance his responsibilities. How can he continue his ministry and take care of five children? An old-maid parishioner suggests her niece in North Alabama could be a great help to him. He assumes she’s suggesting marriage. Why not? The children need a mother and plenty of men marry mail-order brides they’ve never met. It would solve his problem. He sends money for the woman’s...

In the snowbound valleys of 1912 in Bansfield, Massachusetts, love dares to bloom where it should never take root. Winter is no stranger to suffering. A housemaid with fiery red curls and haunting blue eyes, she keeps to herself, hiding a past that could cost her everything. Hunted by shadows and secrets, she’s learned to trust no one—until Ethan. Ethan is a quiet farmer shackled in a loveless, manipulative marriage. Bound by duty and a sense of right, his days are marked by hardship and guilt. But when Winter arrives to assist his petulant wife something buried long ago begins to stir...

Farm girl Rose Magee is delighted to spend the day with wheeler-dealer Joseph Thompson when he goes into town to sell the fish he purchased from her father. Joseph is intrigued by the girl who can hook a worm, pull in a fish, and clean it without being the least bit squeamish. When she discovers he has never learned to fish, she gives him a lesson. Sparks fly between them, but Rose's father puts the skids on this budding romance because he doesn't think Joseph knows some of the essentials skills that a man should possess. Is it possible for Joseph to prove his "manliness" in order to have ...

Ethan Redbourne has secluded himself away from the world since a horrible accident left him scarred and bitter toward the man responsible. But when his help is enlisted by the spirited woman next door to help in the hunt for a legendary treasure, the fire in her emerald eyes reignites hope in the forges of his heart.

Available as a value box set (Pioneer Wilderness Romance Complete Series) amazon.com/dp/B0743DNQTG (copy and paste the link into your browser) It's 1886 and love is getting tested in the dusty faraway plains of Kansas Meet Julia Herod, a young and naive lady who just lost her job as a governess and an influx of immigrants made it increasingly difficult for her to find work anywhere. The threat of homelessness and joblessness hovering over her head prompted her to send a reply to a mail order bride ad. Realizing that she has nowhere to run, and she's running out of options, she decided to ...

Cynthia Kent is a burden. She's tried to help her sister and brother-in-law, but most of her efforts have ended up in disasters of varying degrees. She's depended on their charity for too long and it was high time she started taking care of herself. But how? Tyler Shelton is a widower with two young children. As the sheriff, raising two children alone while handling his important job has pushed him to the breaking point. He's taken everything one day at a time, but his family is suffering and they need help. Tyler is used to giving help to others, but not asking for it.

Tayla Hawthorne finds herself far from home with no memory of her past - her only connection an ornately carved locket. But when a dark and dashing stranger triggers a familiar yearning inside her, she discovers that the key to her future lies in her past. Rafe Redbourne has a lock on his heart. For eight years he has carried the weight of his past on his shoulders, immersing himself in his life as a bounty hunter, tracking fugitives.

Jasper asked Bessie to marry him, and she said yes. How was Jasper to know that he would have to wait to marry her? Bessie decides to go to Oklahoma on her own for the land rush. If Jasper has something that is more important than getting them land, then she will just have to get it herself. They say woman can own land, but the trick will be her being able to claim the land. Her father's best friend, Sam, and his son decided to accompany her so she would not be going alone. Will Bessie find land and be able to claim it for herself? Will Sam try to match her up with his son? Will Jasper come...

Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Best Selling Author Katie Wyatt Becky had never expected that life would take such a different turn as she had prepared for her fairytale wedding but everything had changed so drastically that she wasn’t even given time to acclimatize. When tragedies struck one after the other, all she could do was hold fast and pray for them to be over but the final stroke of bad luck seems to be too much and she has to make choices she never would have otherwise. John had hoped for a practical woman but could never in a ...

Available as a value box amazon.com/dp/B07Y2B5HJG (copy and paste the link into your browser) Join Emily from Marshall Manor as she prepares for a wedding she doesn’t want to go through with and find out what happens when her entire life changes in a span of a week. It’s a crisp autumn evening and the weather in Chicago is not the only reason for the chill in the air. Promised to an older man when she was just a young girl, Emily has now come of age and is forced to face a long-delayed reality. Living in Marshall Manor has been an exceptional blessing for Emily and her fellow orphan ...

It’s Daisy Williams’ birthday month, and it’s a month she will never forget. In the midst of expansion plans for her private detective agency, she finds the body of a good friend – murdered. Her desire is for revenge, but first she must find the culprit. Along with seeking justice for her friend and trying to decipher her father’s mysterious visits to various politicians, she meets with Reed O’Connor for the first time in over a year. Does her friend’s death have anything to do with an old case? And if Daisy finds the murderer, does she risk disrupting her entire agency? ...