Historical Books
> Romantic Times Award Nominee for Best First Historical Romance "Delicious romance, inspired setting, and righteous characters make a divine excuse for ...
Brookes, an officer working clandestinely in Fascist Italy, is badly wounded while fighting for the partisans. He regains consciousness only to find himself ...
Howard Bahr's award-winning debut novel, The Black Flower, was embraced by readers and critics as one of the finest Civil War novels written in recent years, ...
In this epic novel of violence and redemption by the author of The Black Flower, a Civil War veteran travels back over old battlefields toward a reckoning ...
The Black Flower is the gripping story of a young Confederate rifleman from Mississippi named Bushrod Carter, who serves in General John Bell Hood's Army of ...
A thrilling debut novel starring one of history's most famous and beloved courtesans. From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses, The Darling Strumpet ...
At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. ‘Bad Juliet will ...
‘A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily Larson’s hidden life, Ellen Baker tenderly ...
From the acclaimed author of The Orphan of Salt Winds, The Whispering House, and The House in the Orchard comes a passionate and fateful story of love, ...
In Outer Banks, North Carolina, during the 1800's, Hannah Ballinger is a mail order bride who comes to find love and acceptance in a desolate lifesaving ...
ATTRACTEDEveryone in her North Carolina town knew MacRorah Douglas as a rebelliousyoung girl who was always getting herself into scrapes. Unlike her ...
Forced by circumstance to accept a teaching position in an isolated community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a young woman meets a handsome lighthouse ...
Confirmed Bachelor Matthew Powers Was In Need Of A Nursemaid! His aunt Bessassured him that she could find a suitable woman, one who would tend theorphaned ...
St. Bride needed a wife, but the latest candidate was much too pretty tolive amid a bunch of sailors on his desolate island. Ever since he'd firstset eyes on ...
Half-Breed Loner. Jonah Longshadow had never walked an easy road. Now thehands of destiny had yanked him from a white man's prison and set him downon a ...
These four exquisite tales shimmer with emotion and prove that home is wherethe heart is.Fern Michaels tells the heartwarming tale of Hunter Kingsley in ...
Description
Historical fiction is a genre that sets its stories in the past, often during significant periods of history. In these stories, the time period isn’t just a backdrop but an essential part of the setting and the narrative itself.
Historical fiction may feature fictional characters, well-known historical figures, or a combination of the two. Authors typically pay close attention to details—such as setting, clothing, and dialogue—to ensure the story feels authentic to the time period it portrays.
Sometimes, historical fiction portrays famous events from perspectives not recorded in history, showing historical figures grappling with real events but in ways not captured in historical records. Other times, the historical event or era provides a rich backdrop that shapes the characters’ lives and actions. In some cases, the story remains largely accurate, but names of people or places are changed for narrative reasons.
Because this is fiction, authors have artistic license to creatively present and explore these settings, as long as they remain reasonably faithful to established historical facts. If the story deviates significantly from historical record, it may move into the genre of alternate history, which imagines how things might have been different if a major historical event had played out differently. Similarly, historical fiction should generally follow the rules of physics and realism; stories that include magical or fantastical elements typically fall under the category of historical fantasy or historical romance.