Inspirational Historical Fiction

New York City, 1890 Olga Schoon’s father has big plans for her life. Soon, she will be married. In fact, he has found her the perfect match. Olga, however, has no time for love. New York City’s garment factory workers deserve safe and fair working conditions, and as the daughter of one of the city’s most successful factory owners, she is determined to help the cause. Can she navigate her father’s strict expectations while still pursuing her calling? And what happens when her growing feelings for a handsome business associate threaten to destroy everything she’s been striving for? ...

Growing up in the Depression, Tom thinks his southern Indiana life is perfect, until the day the green beans burn on the stove and he cannot find his mother. As an adult, Tom determines he will never forgive God for taking the most important person in his life. Not even the prestige of working in the White House under President Eisenhower and in the CIA under President Kennedy can ease his bitterness. Then, through an unexpected voice and an unpretentious Amish man, Tom Kirkman is forever changed.

When former Congressman Mark Stedman throws in the towel on his presidential campaign, his only choice is to return to his home state and decide how to spend the rest of his life...until he meets Josiah Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer from Pennsylvania. Using his old campaign headquarters for a base, Mark Stedman determines to introduce a new candidate to America. He pledges to do everything in his power to make sure Josiah gets elected. But can a plain man of faith turn the tide of politics and become the leader of America? And what will he have to risk to do it?

When Olivia Dawson returned home one rainy Autumn afternoon, she could never imagine her life as she knew it would change dramatically. She finds an injured and unconscious man close to her cottage and takes him back to her home. After three days of nursing him back to health, a search party arrives at her cottage, and Lord Falmer identifies the injured man as his cousin, the Duke of Penrith. In a surprise decision, the Duke requests Miss Olivia stay at the estate until he regains his memory and recovers completely, as she is the only familiar thing in his life at that moment. When Lord ...

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 ...

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 set amazon.com/dp/B08L35W7SG (copy and paste the link into your browser) ***** - Will Caroline’s family get in the way of her happiness? Caroline Carson is expecting her trip to Montana to be a short one, just until her father feels it’s safe for her to return to Philadelphia after being robbed in broad daylight. Imagine her surprise when she gets off the train and learns she isn’t visiting her aunt, but rather is set to marry a rancher! Logan Gillespie has been waiting for weeks to meet his bride, but all his dreams of family life fly out the window when...

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 ...

Available as a value box set www.amazon.com/dp/B07634VX9W (copy and paste the link into your browser) Meet Betsy. She’s an independent woman who likes flirting a bit too much. When her flirtations land her in hot water, she has no choice but to become a mail order bride to James Tucker in Oklahoma. During the train ride west, Betsy makes the acquaintance of Simon, a handsome soldier. The two know they can’t marry, but that doesn’t stop them from developing deep feelings for each other. -How can Betsy marry someone else? -What surprises are in store for her once she arrives in Oklahoma...

The right man will heal all pain and heartache within an instant. Lady Anna had always been sickly, but when her father insists that she and her maidservant accompany them to the North of England for a hunting trip to Cragshead Keep, Lady Anna is less than optimistic. Spending most of her days in her bedchambers, she is desperate to escape the stern and watchful eyes of her maidservant, Katie. ***This book is included in the Regency Engagements Box Set.*** As she finally slips away, she meets a mysterious and handsome stranger while attempting to navigate her way through the Keep halls. ...

Experience the talented Harry Frost’s narration. A master at voices, he truly brings this enchanting, heartfelt story to life!

The matchmaker’s son, Josiah Milton, finally falls in love with a bride from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Miss Julia Sullivan has stolen his heart. A breath of fresh air with a humble teaching background, she’s not like the other brides. Julia doesn’t have numerous trunks for him to hoist upstairs. Nor is she invasive and eccentric, like Miss Rose MacPherson, a wealthy socialite housing a flying contraption in his barn while waiting for Ella to find her a husband. Then Julia comes face to face with a shocking discovery about her already difficult past. Her world turns upside...

~Embracing progress becomes a matter of the heart~ The Lure of Modernization Busy with her downtown beautification work, Elina Marshall witnesses near calamity as Lathe Dailey, Flora’s new town manager, rescues a widow and her children from a downburst when the old railroad water tower fails. The Marshall family soon attends the world-famous 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and Lathe is invited along to contract the new waterworks that will modernize their town with running water. Romance leads the way through exotic gardens and a gondola ride, until drama unfolds down The Pike’s rowdy midway...

~His quest for innovation…Her conquest for endearment~ Materials engineer Mason Porter rescues HR director Glori Dawes when a platform collapses under her at the kickoff presentation for Coleman Company’s “America Goes Camping” campaign. To return the favor, Glori selects Mason as her camping husband, which launches a filming adventure through three national parks. When admiration kindles a deeper spark, Mason will have to force the issue regarding the ring on her finger that represents her vow with the devious Marketing director in charge of the campaign. Is it phony—or matrimony...

At the beginning of the first century, within the bustling village of Capernaum, Shena’s life is simple and ordinary. The duties of the house and her assistance to her family take up much of her time. However, blind since the day she was born, she suffers greatly, knowing how many experiences she has missed and enduring the derision and ignorant speculations of her people who presume that her sins have caused her blindness. At sixteen, having past the conventional age for marriage, she witnesses dear friends begin to marry, while she must stay in the house of her parents as her blindness ...

Both rebels in their own way, Josie and Jerry Patterson must figure out how to keep the other's love...and keep the German enemy at bay. She has two loves—her skating and Jerry, her husband. But when he returns home looking like a skeleton trying to return to life, she’s scared. What happened in Germany to change a man so much? Has another woman captured his heart? Jerry has vowed to let Josie live her own glamorous life...especially after what happened in Germany. But when his wife's life is threatened, Jerry realizes he can’t stand by and do nothing. Jerry has to risk all for the ...

Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance. Best Selling Author Katie Wyatt Always Free on Kindle Unlimited Meet Sarah, an orphan who has suffered more tragedy than most in her short life. After her parents’ deaths when she was three, and the burning of her orphanage when she was seventeen, Sarah is left with next to nothing—except her faith and a hope of a new beginning out West. When Jed Neilson, San Mateo’s local butcher, answers her advertisement and proposes to her, she eagerly travels to meet him. But the man she finds is not the verbose, ...

Denton Stephens plies his trade as a hauler until he drops through a rain-slicked bridge and falls into the Marias Des Cygnes River, where he’s rescued by pretty Haven Christiansen from the nearby ranch. Even with her father in a wheelchair, Haven manages to keep the Kansas ranch running, but when the construction crew lines up equipment to build the replacement bridge, realignment of the pasture’s fence puts her on overload. Needing a new hauling base, Denton trades off ranch work for room and board. When a troublesome project boss makes unwanted appearances, Denton infuses his ...

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.

Lucy Russell travels west to make a life as a mail-order bride, but when her would-be groom skips town, a wealthy benefactor sweeps her away to Whisper Ridge Ranch where she unwittingly falls for the one man in Montana who doesn’t want a wife. Lucas Deardon leaves Oregon in search of his estranged grandfather with the hope he’ll be able to mend their broken relationship and save his family’s ranch in the process, but he never imagined the journey would lead him to the one woman whose kindness and intoxicating smile could tempt him enough to marry.