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Greetings to all Historical Fiction Readers & Writers! Feel free to use this folder to post books and topics related to this genre.

Wow! Alexander the Great sounds intriguing. Mine is based during the life of Christ with a pleasant twist.
amzn.to/1MI540T It's on sale till July 5th. Blessings

My novel, Bridgetown High, is a bit more contemporary being set in the mid-1960s. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680583093/

I have just finished reading My Real Name Is Hanna by Tara Lynn Masih. It was an amazing book. I have been completely blown away by it which is something that doesn't happen very often. A very clear 5 * for this one.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I decided I needed more adventures of Marian Halcombe. So I write a sequel to THE WOMAN IN WHITE, and it's just been published by Serial Box: https://www.serialbox.com/serials/mos...

I am getting ready to release my book; Inca Gods and Aliens. It is a Work of fiction based on documents and lore based on the Spanish Conquest, Archeology and the unexplained.
An excerpt from my book:
Peru, AD 1527 Spanish Invaders
Led by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers, 160 mounted and battle-ready Spanish conquistadors rode into a clearing while sitting high above those on foot. Each rider seemed to be an extension of the horse he rode. It seemed as if each could read the other’s mind. They were lean and wiry men outfitted with armor, weapons, and will, and they seemed to have no equal among the natives. They were prepared for battle and driven by greed for gold and lust for power.
Pizarro heard someone around him gasp and say, “Madre Dios!” and while instinctively drawing his sword, he asked, “What is it?” You could hear the ring of the steel swords being pulled from their scabbards all around him.
Pizarro’s brother Gonzalo used his sword to point high up toward the sheer cliffs. “Someone is falling from the cliff.” They all watched as a figure fell silently in the distance and then disappeared beyond the giant trees that surrounded them.

I look forward to those who would like to read the first few chapters.
thanks

Bruce Id love to read that if I can have the chapters. Sounds good.
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Thanks!

FREE Swashbuckling, Historical Fiction eBook for a limited time only, from NOW until Saturday, March 28, 2020 ... Amazon eBook can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Against-...

Plot: On the first Monday of April 1625, in Paris, Monsieur Charles d'Avaloy, a lieutenant in Louis XIII's Guard, suddenly finds himself mixed up in some high intrigue. Other than duels (which, admittedly, he has done quite often, and for a long time), the soldier normally keeps away from public life as much as possible. So, why, all of a sudden, does somebody want him dead? And, whoever it is, is willing to set assassins at his heels to make sure that the job gets done right ... Again, dueling other soldiers for honor is one thing, but assassination attempts are quite another! Within a single evening, not only is this man's life turned completely upside-down, but in order to keep this matter as hushed as possible, several other men have already been murdered – one of them just for attempting to warn him!

To top things off, and on this same eerie evening, Monsieur d'Avaloy's brother, who's a priest, happens to also visit – mysteriously, after nine years of them being separated – to warn him to turn away from a life of the sword, else it will be his undoing! Even though the priest admits that he knows nothing of these sudden attempts upon his brother's life, the soldier does begin to wonder if the man's presence and words are a prophecy, or just a weird coincidence. Is God truly, and through these strange occurrences, trying to sway the solider away from his violent lifestyle? That is, since he has killed every single man with whom he has dueled? Or – and, as the soldier also begins to think – is God only besetting him with these current, horrible things to finally destroy him in the name of justice? Whatever's happening, will Monsieur d'Avaloy turn away from his life of violence and accept a life of priestly robes – since he feels that this is the real reason for his brother's visit? Or, will he end up dying by the sword, since he has been living by the Sword? ... Even though the priest assures him that his visit is only to give him peace within his heart (because, since his youth, the soldier has suffered horribly from deep depression – a result of the daily thrashings from his supposed Christian father), and to tell him that by accepting faith in God, and of stopping all the violence, that it will finally set him at liberty ... But, after everything is said and done, what will the end results be? Will the swordsman, through all of these events, find out that these circumstances, which have finally caught up with him, truly are the results of his life of the sword as opposed to a life of faith? Or, rather, the difference of having peace in one's heart who wears the priestly robes, as opposed to the violent, disturbing lifestyle of those who fiercely wield a blade? In other words, perhaps his has been a life of a sword against the robe!

The Irish: The Irish - Book 3

I recently completed the third in this Irish historical fiction series and trilogy. The Nationalists and Exile complete the three.