Historical Fiction
Historical fiction brings the past to life through richly imagined characters, authentic settings, and real historical events. It blends meticulous research with compelling storytelling, letting readers walk battlefields, sit at kitchen tables, and witness turning points in history—feeling the hopes, fears, and choices of people who might truly have lived.
Hanna's Room - Secrets Sealed Since 1942
A Novel of Nazi-Occupied Paris
In 2006 Paris, Claire discovers an apartment sealed since 1942, an untouched relic of a family. Through letters and clues, she reconstructs teenage Hanna Rosen’s escape from Nazi-occupied Europe—safe houses, mountain crossings, forged identities. As archives, art, and a contested inheritance surface, Claire must decide how far she’ll go to let the past speak.
Capone's North Road
The Bootleggers Highway
Capone’s North Road follows Joe Danner, a Northwoods bootlegger feeding Capone’s Chicago pipeline along Lake Superior. After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, rival crews and federal agents close in. One brutal season forces Joe to choose: protect his family by betraying the Outfit—or go under the ice with their secrets
The Corner Man of the West Bottoms
A Kansas City Boxing Story Under the Pendergast Machine
Between 1925 and 1939 in Kansas City, a determined boxing trainer navigates the brutal fight world of the West Bottoms under a powerful political machine. As careers rise and fall in smoke-filled arenas, he confronts corruption, loyalty, and the true cost of ambition in a city where power always watches from ringside.
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The Petticoat Butcher - The Pinkertons' Hunt for Jimmy Ward
A 19th Century Serial Killer
A nameless killer haunts post–Civil War rail lines, slaughtering women as he rides from Indiana to Kansas. Pinkerton agents Hart and Meachman, aided by farmer-veteran Peter Cornelius, track Jimmy Ward through prisons, boomtowns, and one fragile love. The Petticoat Butcher is a relentless historical manhunt you won’t forget.
Promise in the Sky
From Bataan to Home — A Pilot’s WWII Story
Promise in the Sky follows Colonel Robert J. Jones, a Wisconsin farm boy turned WWII aviator whose vow to Dorothy sustains him through Bataan, the Death March, and brutal POW camps. Blending history and heart, this true narrative honors love, faith, and endurance across the Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam.
Rafters of the Plains
Kansas Basketball’s Rise Through Segregation
Spanning 1898–1955, Rafters of the Plains follows KU basketball’s rise through Miles “Bell” Gaines, a fictional Black aide whose bell rope and timetables keep the team moving. Blending documentary history with scenes of segregation, it traces Naismith, Phog Allen, and stars from Endacott to Wilt as the program grows.
Between to Flags
An American in the German Army 1942 - 1945
For fans of Band of Brothers, a D-Day novel about Heinrich “Henry” Keller, a German immigrant trapped in Nazi service after a 1939 visit home. Fighting from Poland to Normandy while wife Mary is shunned in Oregon, Henry’s capture near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont forces a reckoning with the country and family he loves.
Mercy in the Fire
From Chains to Courage | A Civil War Novel
Born enslaved in Arkansas, Isaac escapes to Kansas, joins the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, and returns to the county that owned him. Ordered to burn his former master’s farm, he instead saves the planter’s family, is punished as a traitor, and discovers that mercy can ignite a new kind of freedom.
Orchard of Silence
A Soldier’s Redemption in Occupied Italy
In war-torn Italy, 1943, American soldier Tony Bellini defies orders to save two orphaned children and becomes a hunted deserter. Sheltered by nurse Alessandra Russo in her family’s orchard, he battles guilt, danger, and growing love. Together they protect the children, discovering courage, sacrifice, and a fragile hope that outlasts the guns.
The Last Transmission
WWII 1944 and 2003 | A Radio Call Across Time
In 2003 Kentucky, a guilt-haunted ham radio operator and his wife make contact with a young radio man trapped in the 1944 siege of Bastogne. Across thirty-two nights of crackling transmissions, small comforts and hard truths pass between them, turning one doomed soldier’s fear into purpose and an old man’s regret into grace.