It's 412 A.D., the Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. In Albion, Lalia gathers with fellow supplicants to call on the Goddess Cybele to aid their city of Londinium. It is a simple plan; lure her to the temple with Marcus, a handsome but reluctant priestly candidate. They succeed. The goddess animates her statue using the power of a golden orb, forged by Vulcan, the god of fire. A rival mob attacks; a melee ensues causing Cybele to drop her orb. Lalia retrieves it but in a panicked fight with Marcus, flings it into the River Thames. Without its power the goddess is trapped in her own statue. Before she turns to stone, Cybele lays a curse on Lalia's head; she is bound in a cycle of reincarnation and death. Only the return of the orb will set her free.

Imprisonment, pregnancy, death. These are the difficulties facing Rachel Palsgrove and her teamster confidant, Jesse Quinter. During the winter of 1777-1778, British troops luxuriate in Philadelphia while General George Washington’s soldiers starve and freeze at Valley Forge. Rachel lives at Hopewell Village, an iron-making community supporting the Patriots. She scorns the traditional women’s roles of wife and mother and would rather shovel out a stall than clean a house. Her dreams of becoming a teacher are dashed when the trustees at the University in Philadelphia won’t admit a woman to their all-male society. A barrister at her boardinghouse, British spy Edmund Morris, helps her appeal the University’s decision while hoping to glean intelligence about Hopewell’s treasonous activities. Rachel and Jesse race to the village to warn of a possible inspection by British troops that could jeopardize everything. Will they survive imprisonment, pregnancy, and death? Will Rachel achieve her d

‘A story of love and political intrigue, set against the backdrop of the English hunting shires and the streets of Victorian London and post-revolutionary Paris.’

This novel draws attention to a protagonist’s narrative of an obscure chapter of the Philippine-American War. Full of action and drama, it vividly portrays an oppressed people's predicament driven into ambivalence, duplicity, and expediency that would compromise ideology but for the ultimate common good—Peace. It happened more than a hundred years ago, but still relevant, and timely in our conflicted world today.
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As an eyewitness, Felipe narrates his first-hand account of the Balangiga massacre and its Aftermath. He recalls his ambivalent roles as a teenage Filipino houseboy of the massacred Company C. Tipped by his friends, he did not tell Capt. Connell about the plot. During the attack, he fought with them, fleeing with the surviving Yanqui soldiers to Basey. His insurrecto brother Victor took him to the Sohoton camps, throwing him to the other side of the conflict. In the brutal retribution campaign by the Americans to turn Samar into a “howling wilderness,” he witnessed the cruel treatment of his compatriots, the tortures, the killings, and the summary executions of Maj. Waller’s mutinous cargadores, including his brother, Waller’s accused would-be assassin during the Lanang-Basey march. These atrocities shocked the conscience of America, leading to the court-martial of the General in command, the operations Major and his lieutenants.

One man fights to destroy his family, another to save his. Only one can be victorious.
Ireland 1594. Eunan’s village is destroyed, the rebellion appears over. As the forces of the English crown pillage the countryside, the rebel leader goes into hiding. Eunan’s past has come back to haunt him.

Eunan goes forth to seek the rebel leaders. He must take control of his family lands and turn them from supporting the crown to declaring for the rebellion.

All that stands before him are the forces of the crown, the deserted ranks of the rebellion and the minor matter of his own family.

Meanwhile, Seamus faces a dilemma. Consequences from the past loom large. He must save his own family, but to do so could stop the rebellion in its tracks.

Who will succeed if the other needs to fail?

‘Uprising’ is the next instalment of the gripping ‘Exiles’ historical Irish family saga.

If you love fast-paced action and adventure orientated historical fiction, then you will love this book.

Buy ‘Uprising’ to discover this exciting new series today.

What would you do to save your clan?
Ireland 1585. When Eunan Maguire’s village is raided by the English, he flees, his parents are killed and he blames himself for their death.

When he meets Seamus MacSheehy, Seamus encourages him to go to the election of the new leader of the Maguire clan to claim his father’s voting rights. With Seamus’ guidance, he sets out to ingratiate himself with the new Maguire. But all is not well for Eunan is wracked with guilt because of the death of his parents and Seamus is not all he appears. The English invade Fermanagh, and he is called to fight.

Will Eunan discover the secret of his parent’s death? Will Eunan discover who Seamus MacSheehy really is and why he has taken such an interest in him? Can Eunan overcome his inner demons and save his clan from English onslaught?

Bad Blood is the first novel in the ‘Exiles’ series of Irish historical fiction novels. If you love fast-paced action and adventure orientated historical fiction then you will love this book.

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"The Weight of the Crown represents Historical Fiction at its pinnacle." –Pacific Book Review

Now that the destructive force of black powder has been unleashed, Alfred must reinforce his alliances in a world where the nature of conflict has been changed for all time. Against this backdrop, he faces the daunting task of finding a suitable match for his eldest daughter, knowing he must balance the needs of the kingdom against his vow to ensure the happiness of the child whose anticipated arrival kept him alive during his ordeal in captivity.

When the Teutons take advantage of the ongoing civil war in the Kingdom Across the Southern Sea by seizing its southeastern province, the stakes are ratcheted up yet again. Does Alfred hold the trump card to subdue the ambitions of the Teutons and find a new equilibrium in a constantly changing world?

1917. A farm girl from Cavan, Veronica McDermott is desperate to find more to life than peeling potatoes. Persuading her family to let her stay with her aunt and uncle in Dublin so she can attend secretarial college, she has no idea what she is getting into. Recruited by Fr Michael O'Flanagan to type for Eamon De Valera, Veronica is soon caught up in the danger and intrigue of that fighting for Ireland's independence from Britain.

The attentions of a handsome British soldier, Major Harry Fairfax, do not go unnoticed by Veronica's superiors. But when Veronica is tasked with earning his affections to gather intelligence for Sinn Féin, it isn't long before her loyalty to her countrymen and her feelings for Harry are in conflict. To choose one is to betray the other...

Mates from the Sydney suburb of Botany go away to fight in the first world war. Far from the adventure they imagined, the five years bring challenge, fear and loss but also lighter moments and some unexpected romance.
The boys shoulder distinctive responsibilities in Gallipoli and France as ambulance driver, engineer, howitzer operator, spy-catcher and daring fighter pilot. Two Australian nurses and a French pastrycook enter their lives.
Based on true accounts, these Botany boys experience daily horrors but learn the true value of mateship and the cost involved in striving to preserve a way of life they believe cannot be compromised.

Stina caught the excitement spreading like wildfire amongst the passengers. The Friedeburg had anchored in Moreton Bay and the long and uneventful voyage was finally over. It was 1872 and she couldn’t wait to go ashore, to feel the earth solid under her feet and to run forever without bumping into someone. To feel her hair flying out behind her and to put her arms around something sure and steadfast like a tree. To have a moment of quiet and uninterrupted solitude, to hear birdsong and nobody calling her name or requiring her help.
Her new home would be in Australia, already so different from everything she’d left behind in Sweden. Life still wouldn’t be perfect, her stepmother would see to that, but soon Stina would be able to find a job and leave home. Through her fourteen-year-old eyes, the world was filled with possibilities just waiting for her to discover…

Kit Markham decides to leave her family in Melbourne and takes a fast clipper to England. In London she answers a call for help and volunteers to work on a hospital ship bringing back the wounded from the Crimean War. From this experience she sets herself the goal of training to become a doctor. She travels to America and, despite setbacks and delays, she achieves her goal.
She falls in love and marries her supervising doctor, Ned, and they have a child but the life they envisaged is shattered by the outbreak of the Civil War. The Union Army refuses to recognise her services as a doctor but she obstinately remains working in the battlefields beside Ned. At Fredericksburg, she is captured by rebel soldiers and becomes a prisoner-of-war.

Adam undertakes an overland journey from Sydney to Melbourne with his two young sons and leaves them there while he joins a whaling ship.
When he returns, Joey is there to greet him. Although she has been in love with him since they first met, she knows he does not reciprocate her feelings. Despite this, Adam agrees to stay in Melbourne and manage one of her five hotels and slowly realises his growing attachment to her. They marry but Adam is not the person she once knew and, with Joey intent on continuing her business interests, their marriage is far from perfect.
Victoria becomes a separate colony and bushfires in 1851 devastate much of the land. Adam struggles to find his place in Joey’s world. With the advent of the gold rush, their business interests rapidly expand. Joey is away from home a great deal and forms a liaison with an American entrepreneur, Bart Montgomery which further complicates their lives and ultimately leads to tragedy.