Colonial Fiction

When America’s first President, George Washington, was13 years of age, he penned 110 rules of civility. Some believe he was simply transcribing something he had read, but no one seems to know exactly what that may have been.

A prisoner being taken away for various crimes on a distant planet has the chance to escape when the entire planet is hit by a massive force that begins to transform all people into wild undead beasts.

One mistake cost him everything. Building a new life might give him a second chance at love. Thomas Bray came to Gloucester to escape his disgrace in Plymouth Colony, not to find his future. The skilled carpenter seeks redemption through hard work until he meets Mary Wilson—a founding family's daughter who sees beyond his painful past. As Thomas builds a canal vital to the settlement's future, Mary challenges the barriers around his heart. But when a wealthy merchant pursues her and whispers from Plymouth resurface, Thomas must decide: retreat again or finally fight for the love he ...

Moussane: The River’s Daughter (A prequel to Blood for Pearls and Beyond—The Door of No Return) Before the transatlantic slave trade changed the course of history, a woman in West Africa saw it coming. Senegal, 1500. In a peaceful pre-colonial village along the Gambia River, Moussane lives in harmony with the land, the spirits, and her family. A mother, healer, and spiritual seer, she carries new life within her—but also carries a heavy burden: visions of a distant island drenched in blood and sorrow. Its name is Gorée. As her ten-year-old son plays among the millet fields, Moussane ...

The Pirate Raiders, with the villainous Captain Bardoso in command, are employed by the vicious Captain Ramon to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy caballero, hoping to use her to trap Zorro. Battles on land and sea, flashing swords and booming cannon explode before your very ears in this exciting audio production.

Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning—not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect.

As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in the colony of New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England so he can study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting his teeth in business on the rough and ready goldfields of Far North Queensland's Palmer River, he finally realises his dream and travels to England, where he is accepted into the Sandhurst military academy.

What a rollercoaster of a ride rollicking through Revolutionary times. Felt like I was there...totally immersed. - John B. Ward We admire and salute great patriotism. - E. Ramos "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale - New York City - September 22, 1776 In September 1776, the mighty war machine of the British Empire surrounded George Washington and his ragtag Continental Army on Manhattan Island. If the British prevail, Washington might well hang for treason. Desperate for information, he calls for an officer to venture behind enemy lines. Captain Nathan ...

As the Revolutionary War shifts south, and west, so too, the Mallory’s find themselves right in the thick of it. On the banks of the Congaree River in South Carolina, and on the Wabash in the Northwest Territory, war is not the only problem they face. Revenge stirs among the embers of war.

In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly decide to join the hunt. As they journey up into this wild, haunted country, they discover there's far more to the land and people of the highlands than they imagined. And as they close in on their prey, they're forced to reckon with conflicts both ancient and deeply personal.

When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing a bloody war with America is for Duncan to secretly deliver the fossils to Franklin in London.

An epic gothic adventure set in various locations in South Africa and the UK during the late 19th century. Sign of the Spider is a mesmerizing tale that revolves around the life of Laurence Ferran who is trapped within the confines of a dull suburban life in London. Spurred by hopes of breaking free and forging a new life, Ferran embarks on a thrilling adventure to Johannesburg, South Africa, a land of booming prospects during this period.While aboard the RMS Persian, Ferran builds significant relationships, particularly with Martin and the enchanting Lilith Battey. Ferran’s deepening ...

Jonathan’s Story Continues “Bravo! Bravo! I am enjoying this game immensely, and I will be sad when it ends. But ‘twill end, I promise you, Mr. Asher. You need to win with the cards you hold every time; I only need to win once.” Revolutionary New York City: Where the British officers dance, gamble, foxhunt, and take over the homes of the residents while in the burnt-out neighborhoods thousands of refugees huddle in canvas shelters, and captured Continental soldiers starve in the churches, warehouses and ships converted into prisons. A dangerous city but the perfect place for a war ...

Born in a London workhouse, John has suffered years of physical and verbal abuse. Finally managing to escape, he stows away on a ship bound for the colonies, only to be discovered while out at sea. After another failed attempt at freedom, he is sold as an indentured servant to the bootmaker in Williamsburg, Virginia. His new-found faith in Christ is tested daily by his master’s arrogant son. Then Elizabeth walks into his life… (A Christian Historical Romance Novel)

This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback - a desolate place of gas stations and fast-food franchises: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion, he finds something more sinister than economic depression: The ghost towns of Australia appear to be literally disappearing. An epidemic of mysterious holes is threatening his new home’s very existence, and this discovery plunges the researcher into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never escape.

A heart-pounding novel of a love that must truly conquer all. LOVE'S WHISPER is the highly-rated tenth book in Wiley's bestselling novels of the American frontier. Danger and beauty, trials and heroism, faith and family, at the heart of the American frontier. A sweet historical romance set against the stunning backdrop of the Kentucky wilderness. In 1811, strengthened by his own struggles and triumphs, Liam Roberts earned the respect of his commanding officers and his current boss, cattleman Stephen Wyllie. Although Liam considers himself a homebody, he lacks a home. Tired of bunkhouse life...

Professor Augustus Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine,' is an eccentric scientist with superior mental powers, who insists that logic will solve any problem. He has an assistant, the clever newspaper reporter Hutchinson Hatch, who brings him cases. the escapades of Professor Van Dusen provide a splendid romp for all lovers of traditional mysteries.

Years ago, a mysterious coven of witchlords was defeated in their attempt to enslave the world of Nevermore. But now a remnant of that old foe is re-emerging at the same time a new one rises. Orphaned by the the Razhod, Syago obsesses over following in the footsteps of his legendary ancestral line. A legacy that could lift him out of peasant bondage and rescue his ailing family. However, he gets more than he bargained for when bloody unrest takes the realm. Yearning for the independence and fulfillment few women are allowed, Leyta immerses herself in the traumatizing study of dyne. She ...

In Michael B. Druxman's outrageous comedy, Hail on the Chief!, cantankerous gentleman rancher Oliver Pettridge hates his neighbor, a former cowboy movie star. He's hated him for years over a property line dispute. As the play begins, the neighbor has just been elected President of the United States.

From the author of The Widow’s War and Bound comes a compelling new novel about a young woman’s struggle to decide where her loyalties lie - with family or with forbidden love; with royalist tradition or upstart independence - on the eve of the Revolutionary War.