Fiction - Alternative History

Who killed the captain? It's not bad enough that Halvar is stuck in Manatas while Don Felipe is off exploring the New World. Now he's got a dead ship captain on his hands, a noblewoman and his virago wife complaining about their living accommodations,...

Halvar Danske, known as the Hireling, has come to Manatas to determine whether there's fraud afoot in the Feria. His master, the Al-Andalusian Calif Don Felipe, has had a letter from an old friend named Leon di Vicenza claiming part of the calif's share...

The hidden history of FatLand -- a territory established by people seeking freedom from the oppressive Pro-Health Laws of the United States of America -- is revealed in Volume II of The FatLand Trilogy. They only wanted to build a land where they would...

Alone. Taken from my home, I face a future I never expected. Or wanted. Thrown into the midst of powerful men who want to use me for their own purposes, the line between ally and enemy is subtle. What is a ruse and what...

This is a story of life in a southern Indiana town in the late 1960's and early 70's, a place where the villagers struggle to preserve their long held All-American ideals of God, Football, and the Constitution in the turmoil of dramatic social and...

The Other Hotel is an alternate reality novel set on the Gulf of Mexico in the year 2032. It follows the life of a man who inherits a four story hotel. He also has a buggy he invented that cleans beaches. One day a...

In a time some 25,000 years ago, a small tribe located in a primal valley attempts to survive the many threats from the catastrophes of geological upheavals, where survival is wrested from the elements and life is to endure starvation. The perspective of this...

Adolf Hitler is reviled as the greatest tyrant in history. Yet behind this well-deserved image, there was a man with personal and political secrets known to very few and almost unknown to conventional historians. This remarkable novel reveals his hitherto unknown connection with England...

With the help of his daughter and a mysterious Buddhist monk, Stefan Cossack drives democracy within the borders of Kievan Rus, modern day Ukraine. A story of romance, friendship, military struggle and political intrigue.Author: Pete GodstonISBN-10: 1541347781ISBN-13: 9781541347786Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2016Pages:...

Joshua Boehm is an intergalactic spy, loner, womanizer, and a recovering addict. He loves his job, but he also wants something more; an existence celebrating the warmness of love instead of lamenting the past and dreading the future he yearns for a normal life...

In which unstoppable time meets immoveable space... James Ovit is a naive and slightly-lost maverick son of an elderly serial monogamist mother, whose mundane life is suddenly kick-started into headlong travel through time and space by a group of ruthless and callous scientists. His...

SPECIAL SECOND EDITION with 2020 Art - Faeries are enslaved by humans. Harpers Faery friends are chased by human soldiers because they are illegal citizens. There is a mountain skirmish and some faeries are put in Charles City's Castle dungeon. Inside the dungeon is...

"History's Left Turn" is a collection of 30 alternate-history flash-fiction stories that span the globe and make stops at different points in time when some act led to a different outcome and explores the aftermath of decisions made. From an ancient Rome that fell...

He is a secret agent assigned to fight a war of time. He serves an alien overlord, which has subjugated humankind through untold generations. They use him to execute subtle manipulations of time and space by sending him on mysterious errands to faraway places...

1279, Southern China The fall of the Song Dynasty is imminent. Song General Zhang Shijie is commanded to escape the Mongol horde and preserve a relic that's been guarded by Chinese Dynasties for more than 1,200 years. His duty: protect it until a time...

To Trust in What We Cannot See is the first book in Dennis Mansfield's series of time-traveling, historical thrillers. The story builds a genre-bending, thought provoking plot around a little known historical fact: During the month of January 1913, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir...

Flora Annie Steel (1847 - 1929) was an English writer who notably lived in British India for 22 years and is best remembered for her books set or related to the sub-continent. First published in 1903, Steel's historical novel "A Sovereign Remedy" offers the...

Author: Sharon HuntISBN-10: 1524504041ISBN-13: 9781524504045Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2016Pages: 422Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

The novel envisions the election of a President in 2016 who starts to deport 11 million US residents. We see what happens in the US and in Mexico through the actions of staff of both Presidents, a Mexican journalist, a US congressman, and religious...

Book Eleven of The Londum Series. Once upon a time, private detective Rufus Cobb met the supreme being of the Multiverse, the Creator, who was called ... Jeremy. Before they parted, Jeremy gave him these words of wisdom to remember - 'Cobb ... never...

Tales of My Ancestors is like watching the History Channel broadcast via "The Twilight Zone." It will take you on a journey through time with historical figures like Bat Masterson, Queen Elizabeth, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Cochise, Saint Margaret of Scotland, and players from...

A political novel of speculative fiction depicting the rise of oligarchic power and the suppression of democratic institutions in an imagined future America.First published in 1908, The Iron Heel presents a narrative framed as a manuscript recounting the ascent of an authoritarian regime dominated...

RIVER MOTHER: The Face of the Sphinx is the story of an extraordinary female shaman and leader of a hunter-gatherer tribe living between the second and third cataracts in Nubia. The story is set in the Proto-Egyptian Mother Goddess period c. 6000 B.C. and...

Author: James HufferdISBN-10: 1514468123ISBN-13: 9781514468128Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2016Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

The afternoon sun was high and the heat of it felt good. The noonday meal had been finished and everyone was just a little sleepy when Izel heard one of her handmaids scream in terror. Izel looked instinctively at her guard and watched in...

It's 2026 and Iran's nuclear threat has reached the point to where it's highly believed they intend to launch a missile strike against Israel before years end; an ultra-aggressive action, and one that would no doubt mark the beginning of World War III. US...

In the tradition of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Michael Crichton's Timeline, medievalist Stanley Lombardo's Paxton in the New World delivers a tale of adventure, romance, and thought-challenging alternative history in the second of The Crosstime Adventures of Carter...

Nevada began as a wasteland, a haven for vices of all kinds, attracting misfits and outcasts. Yet these ne'er do wells created one of the greatest cities in the world. This is their storyAuthor: A. J. Hicks,Kaaran E. ThomasISBN-10: 1499256825ISBN-13: 9781499256826Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

In 1963, on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy, the eminent painter Gabriel Marchant, reflects on his early days when he met Archie, charismatic warden of The Settlement, an arts centre in his home town. Unemployed and feeling very low, Gabriel was...

Tragedy in Königsberg is an Alternate History/Murder Mystery novel. Set in 1956, seventeen years after the Autumn War of 1939: Imagine a world in which the Second World War lasted months not years: where there was no Fall of France, no attack on Pearl...

The Altamira Caves and The Mage is not about Pythagoras, Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, Mark Twain or any other exceptional man, although aspects of those lives are presented in this novel. On one level it is not about us, our ills, mistakes, and our view...

The year is 2073. It's been sixty years since The Red Death wiped out most of humanity. James Howard Smith is one of the last survivors of the pre-plague era, but he knows he's dying. He must instill values and wisdom to his grandsons,...

Jules Verne meets Firefly in this series of tales by a new voice on the steampunk landscape. Join this group of misfits, castoffs, and fugitives as they try to make a living moving cargo in Colonial Africa on their ramshackle blimp, the Kestrel, in...

It is 1988-the height of the Cold War. At Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, David Balzen is a straightforward, decisive, and ethical security police sergeant. But when he finds himself the solo hostage negotiator at a top secret research hangar, Balzen soon learns...

The nineteenth century is coming to a close when Hans Kasper Ivan Karp makes it his life mission to relieve the world of sex and gender. Knowing that his goal will take several generations to achieve, Karp invents a new, dominant chromosome known as...

The Toronto Maple Leafs have not won a Stanley cup since 1967-a burden that long-suffering fans have regrettably had to bear. Ron Bailey, the new director of player personnel for the Leafs, is more than frustrated with his beloved team, who last won the...

Book two of the Pirate Empire series. Once again pirate captain Scarlet MacGrath is on the run with a hold full of refugees. All she wants is to find safe haven, but before she knows it she's locked in battle with bloodthirsty natives, armed...

Author: Brenda SmithISBN-10: 1483602478ISBN-13: 9781483602479Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2013Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

In this book, a seminal book in the Theoclea series, we see Theoclea as a child, as she experiences her first vision of the future. The book moves on to a time when she has become The Delphic Oracle and gives the speech of...

The spectacular heist from the San Martino Cathedral in Lucca had cost a security guard his life. But now the priceless icon lay in splinters on a seaside loading dock. The theft is a shock to Professor Johann Krugel, but not the destruction. After...

Brandenburgers: Invasion of Russia This a alternative/historical fantasy set during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941. It is a fast-paced tale about a squad of soldiers racing across the Baltic States toward Leningrad. The squad is held together by...

Author: Jose MarquezISBN-10: 1477106618ISBN-13: 9781477106617Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2012Pages: 48Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

It is 1812 in Sapoda, a small crossroads town nestled in the neutral zone between the New Roman and Mongol Empires. Mikail de Reuter, a young political officer bored by his job and worried about his prospects, is only there to visit his girl....

I Am Celtic is a story set in about 10,000 BCE and takes the reader from the destruction of Atlantis, to Egypt, across Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, and finally to the British Isles, specifically England. The story spans the lifetime of the beautiful...

"An invitation from a firing squad to attend my own execution does not frighten me nearly as much as one from Bahram to join him for a cup of tea."- Dr. Frederick Hoffman In this sweeping saga of good versus evil, Dr. Frederick Hoffman...

Ireland, a country dominated for centuries by England, has given the world many fascinating stories. Herein is one of them about love and scandal set against the backdrop of volatile Anglo-Irish politics between 1881 and 1921. It is based on the true story of...

Upside Down Heart follows beautiful Michelle Sands and the sisterhood of The Upside Down Heart Society as they continue using the power inherited from the ancient Vampire Glome. Religious and political leaders and the powerful group L'ordre de l'Aigle are determined to possess their...

Author: Julius XISBN-10: 1465394176ISBN-13: 9781465394170Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2011Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Author: Julius XISBN-10: 1465310169ISBN-13: 9781465310163Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2012Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

The brutal murder of a Baron in the provinces punctuates the bitter rivalry between two royal houses. While this kind of small-scale conflict isn't uncommon amongst the male-driven rural estates, the fact that one of the Lords is an Islander (Black) while the other...