Historical Fiction Books Worth Checking Out!
Discover the best historical fiction books worth reading! From Tricia Goyer's Whisper of Freedom to Tamera Alexander's Remembered, explore gripping tales of faith, love, and adventure. This curated collection features Christian fiction, frontier sagas, and wartime dramas by beloved authors like Robin Lee Hatcher and Bodie Thoene. Perfect for fans of American history, Kentucky pioneers, and epic journeys. Dive into these timeless stories today!
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Loving Liza Jane
by Sharlene MacLaren
"Feisty Liza Jane Merriwether discovers that God is the ultimate Matchmaker when she moves to Little Hickman Creek, Kentucky, to become the new schoolteacher; she meets a widowed farmer who falls in love with her, but he has already sent for a mail-order bride"--Provided by publisher.
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Petticoat Ranch
by Mary Connealy
Faith and love help unruly newlyweds find common ground and a chance at love on the Texas frontier in this rollicking, adventure-packed romance about a headstrong mountain man and an independent frontier woman.
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Rekindled
by Tamera Alexander
A Gripping Story of Love, Loss, and Second Chances When her husband disappears into a mountain snowstorm one morning, Kathryn Jennings is flung into the world of ranching, banking, and business. Penniless and pregnant, Kathryn is determined to keep her land as a legacy for her child. The man who offers her a job seems to have an awful lot of secrets, but she is desperate. Most disconcerting of all is the uncanny familiarity she feels toward the badly scarred ranch hand who works in the dark shadows of the horse stables.
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Revealed
by Tamera Alexander
Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can't claim it with the cloud of her past hanging over her in Willow Springs. After her husband dies, she advertises for a trail guide to accompany her to land waiting for her in Idaho--and a most unlikely candidate applies for the job. Matthew Taylor is a man on the run, with consequences of past mistakes pursuing him at every turn. Meeting Annabelle Grayson the first time was unpleasant enough, but when she crosses his path again, her presence in his life--and what she reveals--is devastating. If given a single wish, Matthew would turn back time and right a grievous wrong. If given a second wish, he would make Annabelle Grayson pay.
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Remembered
by Tamera Alexander
The threat of war--and a final request--send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she searches for the man who has held her heart since childhood--her father. Pierre Girard left Paris for the Americas to seek his fortune in fur trading, vowing to send for his wife and daughter. But twenty-five years have passed and his vow remains unfulfilled. Sifting through shards of broken promises, Véronique embarks on a dangerous search for a man she scarcely remembers. His grief finally healed, Jack Brennan is moving on with life. After years of guiding families west, he is now working as a freighter to the mining towns surrounding Willow Springs. What he doesn't count on is an unexpected traveling companion on his trips up into the mountains, and how one woman's search will cause havoc with his plans . . . and his life.
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Dear Lady
by Robin Lee Hatcher
Beth Wellington travels from England to Montana where she becomes the town's schoolmistress, is pursued by the mayor, and eventually falls for Garret Steele, a widower who is still in love with his dead wife.
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Promised to Me
by Robin Lee Hatcher
After a wait of over ten years, Karola Breit finally receives word from her betrothed in America to join him, but then she discovers that he's a recent widower with two children.
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In His Arms
by Robin Lee Hatcher
Facing a difficult new life in 1898 America as a single mother when her first husband is killed, Irish woman Mary Malone has a dangerous altercation with an employer before falling in love with the handsome sheriff of a small Idaho town. Original.
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Patterns of Love
by Robin Lee Hatcher
Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg, a pastor's daughter agrees to a marriage of convenience in hope of finding real love.
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Dawn of a Thousand Nights
by Tricia Goyer
This powerful historical novel tells the tale of the men and women involved in lesser-known World War II conflicts, including Dan Fletcher who, after surviving the Bataan Death March in the Philippines, is imprisoned in the American POW camp in Japan and subjected to extreme brutality and injustice. Original.
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A Valley of Betrayal
by Tricia Goyer
Sophie finds herself alone in the war-torn Spanish countryside. On her darkest night, she takes refuge with a brigade of international compatriots and pledges to make the plight of the Spanish people known around the world through the power of art.
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Night Song
by Tricia Goyer
A love story between a beautiful member of the Austrian resistance and the American soldier who loves her is told against the true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler's Mauthausen death camp, who played the American national anthem as troops arrived to liberate them. Original.
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Arms of Deliverance
by Tricia Goyer
Katrine, a Czech Jew passing herself off as an Aryan, starts dating a Nazi officer who sends her to stay at a Lebensborn home while American reporters Mary and Lee, assigned to the war-torn European front lines, work to present the realities of the war.
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A Shadow of Treason
by Tricia Goyer
When Walt, the reporter who helped her over the border, shows up again after Guernica is bombed, Sophie is given an impossible mission. She must leave behind the man she loves and return to the person who betrayed her. Another layer of the war in Spain is revealed as Sophie is drawn into the international espionage schemes that could turn the tide of the war.
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A Whisper of Freedom
by Tricia Goyer
Brave and idealistic Sophie, Philip, Jose, and Deion realize their only hope for freedom is escaping Spain's borders. The conclusion of this series proves that courage and commitment don't always result in outward victory. But there are whispers of freedom that resonate through even the darkest night.
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Blue Night
by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
In this epic story of a woman seeking her missing husband, a mysterious blue tile is a clue that takes her search back to World War II Austria. A sequel to the successful debut novel "Winter Passing".
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Winter Passing
by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
Tatianna died before a firing squad in Austria in 1941, but as Darby Evans stands at her grandmother's bed, many years later, her grandmother is calling that name. "Two headstones with the same name and a wedding ring finally produce clues that lead to a love found and the passing of a sixty-year-old winter of sorrow."--Cover.
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North of Tomorrow
by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
"A novel about a devastating family secret and one woman's determination to overcome."--Cover.
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London Refrain
by Bodie Thoene
In Poland in the fall of 1939, Nazi forces descend upon Warsaw while hundreds of foreign nationals are desperate to flee the country, including an American photojournalist and a Jewish schoolteacher.
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Dunkirk Crescendo
by Bodie Thoene
As the Fuhrer gathers his forces for another invasion journalist, Josephine Marlow is sent back across the borders, while Colonel Andre Cahrdon decodes a message about the attack so outrageous that no one believes it is the true plan.
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Paris Encore
by Bodie Thoene
Reveals the fates of Jacob and Lori Kalner in Warsaw, as well as David Meyer, Madame Rose Smith, Jerome Jardin, and Rachel and Yacov Lubetkin.