Historical Fiction Latino

Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts.

The most fearsome enemy he ever faced. Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all. By his own admission they gave him nightmares into his dotage. It was not the French, the Spanish, the Americans, or the Mexicans. It was not even the more exotic adversaries such as the Iroquois, Mahratta, or Zulus. While they could all make his guts churn anxiously, the foe that really put him off his lunch were the Ashanti.

Experience the PULSE-POUNDING action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat for days! NICARAGUA 1975 ... Deep in the heart of the Nicaraguan jungle, An elite squad of Green Berets secretly undertake covert operations on behalf of the United States. A COUNTRY ON THE CUSP OF REVOLUTION ... Times are changing, however, and the political climate of Nicaragua begins to take a step away from dictatorship and towards revolution, with the team caught in the center of it all. With the sudden explosive arrival of a mysterious female doctor and a deadly assassin, the team realize a grave...

Havana, Cuba. December 1958. Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of Castro’s revolution. One dark night, after rescuing a leader of the revolt under house arrest, one brother finds himself hunted. The other, an influential attorney, must make a choice. Help his brother, placing the whole family at risk, or let Batista’s forces capture him. His decision will haunt them both for the rest of their lives.

The Undying Thirst is an folklore legend that describes the unquenchable thirst victims of milk related deaths suffer. These poor souls are said to wander the Earth in search of precious milk. Flynn, dies on his dairy farm, a month before his wife, Florence, is to give birth to their child. With the help of the milk cow who accidentally killed him, Flynn discovers how to reconnect with his true love. Hint: It’s through a special kind of milk. Will Flynn listen to the cow’s advice? Or will he remain in thirsty turmoil forever?

The upscale neighborhood of Summerton doesn’t know what hit them. In the last year, all the women of the neighborhood have become pregnant within months of each other. Then, one by one, each husband suffered inexplicable deaths, leaving the women of Summerton widows with newborn babies. Brendan, on the heels of a break up with the woman he thought he was going to marry, arrives in Summerton, unaware of the community’s recent events. As the only adult male in the vicinity, all his female neighbors want to welcome him personally. Marina Moreno, the interior decorator responsible for ...

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The Undying Thirst is a folklore legend that describes the unquenchable thirst victims of milk related deaths suffer. These poor souls are said to wander the Earth in search of precious milk. Bart surprises his girlfriend, Pam, with a trip to a cheese cave. Both are cheesemongers and dutifully committed to a life of cheese. Bart plans on asking for Pam’s hand in marriage and in business – he bought the cheese cave! One fatal slip onto a sharp rock inside the cave ends Bart’s life before he has a chance to propose and before Pam reveals a secret of her own. Will Bart ever find out ...

Anna Hall was a beautiful and skilled Second World War air force operative, guiding RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain - before a bomb killed her sister and left her disfigured. In the aftermath, haunted by her failure to keep her sister safe, Anna retreats to a posting in the countryside - until a chance encounter spins her life in a new direction.

Rebellion has always been in the O'Reilly family's blood. So when faced with the tragic death of her brother during Northern Ireland's infamous Troubles, a teenage Nora joined the IRA to fight for her country's freedom. Now, more than a decade later, Nora is haunted by both her past and vivid dreams of a man she has never met. When she is given a relic belonging to Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland, the mystical artifact transports her back eighty years - to the height of Ireland's brutal civil war.

Hector Santinio is the younger son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life’s realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family’s adoptive land.

Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate - on identity and what it is that defines us - from which he cannot break free. Indefinitely stuck in Wandernburg until his debate with the organ-grinder is concluded, he begins to meet the various characters who populate the town, including a young freethinker named Sophie.

As a boy, Frank Mederos’ grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much-needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America. Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn’t be worse. Frank’s true story, a tale of love, loss, and courage, will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

It’s Jessica and Ray’s first weekend alone since having the twins. Jessica is eager to reignite her passion for her husband but is nervous they have drifted apart. Before their hopeful weekend begins, Jessica attends Clarisa’s cookie brunch, where a batch of cookies used to increase milk supply gets mixed up with all the cookies! After eating the cookies, Jessica can’t stop her flow. Will this milk surprise ruin their romantic weekend? Or will it be the right amount of sweetness to bring them back together? MF MFMM tantalizing short story containing consensual group activities.

Son los años cincuenta, Raquel y Alejo se aman a escondidas: los prejuicios del padre de Raquel les impiden verse libremente. Sin embargo, las precauciones para no ser encontrados fallan y una noche los protagonistas son sorprendidos. El castigo es la separación, la que llevará a Raquel a París y a Alejo, a la Amazonía peruana.

The year is 1967. Vietnam is in flames, and few realize that a firefight on a jungle road in Latin America is the beginning of a new and secret war. In Bolivia, international revolutionary Ché Guevara leads a band of guerillas determined to liberate a continent. Paul Hoyle, a CIA paramilitary officer, joins a team of operatives sent to crush the Bolivian insurgency. When a recovered backpack reveals that Ché Guevara is in command of the rebels, the stage is set for a duel between world ideologies.

In 1809, at the age of 18, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris - and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the next 15 years practicing medicine and living as a man. Drafted to serve as a surgeon in Napoleon's army, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. She later embarked to the Caribbean and set up a medical practice in a remote Cuban village, where she married Juana de León, an impoverished local.

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser Bruguera, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile.

In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum", an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois, and died fighting with guerillas in Central America.

The Undying Thirst is an folklore legend that describes the unquenchable thirst victims of milk related deaths suffer. These poor souls are said to wander the Earth in search of precious milk. Logan, an unfortunate victim of The Undying Thirst, finds himself sharing his apartment with a beautiful, recently divorced woman, Valerie. Despite being a ghost, no one can see, he is besotted with her from the start. His desire for her only grows stronger when he discovers she has milk. Will Logan ever quench his thirst with fresh milk? Or will he remain thirsty until eternity?