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Death of a Cigarette: A Story of Survival, Memory, and Legacy by Timothy Webber and Milo Grey

A single unlit cigarette survives Omaha Beach and becomes the keeper of a family’s memory. Told through the eyes of that unlit cigarette, *Death of a Cigarette* is a story of courage in many forms: the spark that burns bright, the voice that steadies, and the choice to endure without flame.

This is my first published book so quite new to all of this. Its a unique pov, but I tried to keep it as historically accurate as possible with the exception of one event. Its not a blood and guts war book, its more lyrical and restrained. Its available on Kindle Unlimited also Hard Cover and Paperback. I have a few Audible promo codes still available for a free listen on Audible. Those are at https://audible-promo.deathofacigaret...

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The Muse of Freedom: a Cévenoles Sagas novel

In an age of state persecution, how far would you go to protect your faith, your identity, your freedom?

17th-century Languedoc, France, as authorities outlaw rights, and difference becomes dangerous, a man of unbreakable spirit, a mystic healer, and a hidden network of rebels search for freedom and light in the darkest of times.

This timely, epic adventure is based on a true story of resistance and divided loyalties, echoing our present times in a testament to the enduring human spirit that refuses to be silenced. In the shadows, communities defied the odds, guided by courage and solidarity, resisting the growing darkness of oppression with resilience, secrecy, and hope.

The Muse of Freedom by Jules Larimore is a historical fiction novel set in 17th-century France, following a young Huguenot nobleman, Jehan BonDurant, as he navigates religious persecution, discovers his family's secrets, and finds love and purpose while resisting oppression in the Cévennes mountains. Inspired by the true story of Jean Pierre Bondurant, the book is the first in The Cévenoles Sagas and blends historical events with elements of magic and folklore, focusing on themes of faith, freedom, and resistance against King Louis XIV's absolutist rule.

Key aspects of the book:

Setting: The Cévennes mountains in Languedoc, France, in 1695, during a time of intense persecution of Huguenots (French Protestants).

Protagonist: Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman with a dangerous Huguenot legacy, who becomes an apothecary and joins a secret network of rebels.

Plot: Jehan's journey of self-discovery, his relationship with a mystic healer named Amelia Auvrey, and their fight for freedom against the King's forces, leading to choices between hiding, rebellion, or exile.

Genre: Historical fiction, metaphysical fiction, and family saga, with elements of romance and adventure.

Inspiration: Based on the true story of Jean Pierre Bondurant dit Cougoussac, blended with local lore.

Series: It is the first book in The Cévenoles Sagas.

Thank you, Jules!

A Storm Coming is about my ancestors' participation in the Tuscarora Wars of 1710- 1715. It is a sweeping historical novel set in pre-colonial North Carolina, where a young Tuscarora woman, Jane, must choose between love and loyalty as colonial forces threaten her people’s survival.
Through Jane’s eyes, A Storm Coming reveals the Tuscarora people’s struggle to preserve their culture and sovereignty. Woven with the rhythms of everyday life—harvest feasts, sacred stories, and the bonds of kinship—this novel immerses readers in a world rarely explored in historical fiction. As alliances fracture and the storm of war gathers, Jane learns that survival demands more than weapons—it demands courage, sacrifice, and the strength to choose one’s own path.
Step into Jane’s world, witness the fight for her people’s survival, and experience a story that will stay with you long after the last page.

Hello, fellow historical fiction readers.
I've just published THE TASTE OF LEAD, a dark academia novel set at the University of Padua in 1592, and I'm looking for honest reviewers.
The story: A woman arrives at the university disguised as a boy. She draws cadavers with a precision that catches the attention of Professor Enea Valier. When her anatomical illustrations reveal evidence of mercury poisoning in the university's supply chain, she uncovers a truth the institution needs buried. He tells her to destroy her notes. She refuses.
What makes it different: No magic. No supernatural. Real Renaissance anatomy, real chemistry, real institutional politics. The romance is measured in centimetres — the distance between two drawings on a workbench. The horror is bureaucratic — the lie on a death certificate written in perfect calligraphy.
For fans of: The Name of the Rose, The Miniaturist, Babel, Perfume.
First in a completed trilogy — all three books are available now.
Free ebook for an honest Amazon review. All ratings genuinely welcome. DM me if interested.
— Kristof Loak

My historical WWII novel, Nisei: A Novel

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

The ICE victims of WWII

In this gripping novel, a man in despair stumbles upon the secrets of his Japanese father's World War II experiences, and the past that shaped his family.

Robert Takahashi sits in the empty attic of his mother's old home in Hawaii, a home he has to sell to cover financial losses from her nursing home care—and his own massive gambling debts. Once his affairs are in order, he can proceed to the next step: suicide. His wife is done with him anyway. His daughters—well, he's nothing but an embarrassment to them.

Robert barely remembers his father and knows little about his parents' past. But a manuscript he's just found—left under an eave and contained in a dusty box along with ten medals from the US military—will enlighten him about many things. As he reads his father's words, he discovers a story of a Japanese boy born in Hawaii, a life uprooted by internment, and a young Nisei's harrowing quest to prove his patriotism by serving with the renowned 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He also learns about a long-ago forbidden love—and how prejudice can derail a life—in this sweeping tale of family, war, and two generations of men battling powerful forces both externally and within themselves.

Well, I do not write whimiscal tales of the medieval world. Concerning my writing style, well... someone either loves it or they hate it. When Time Found Her is a visceral, historical time-slip novel that explores the brutal consequences of a fractured timeline during the bloody 14th-century War of the Breton Succession. The narrative centers on a devastating rupture in history: during the chaotic 1342 Siege of Hennebont, Joanna of Flanders loses her eight-year-old daughter, when the walls crumble. Time itself mistakenly thrust Joanna's daughter foreward to the 20th century where she spends the next forty-two years living in a century that is not her own. This profound, unnatural tragedy breaks the intended course of reality, resulting in Charles of Blois seizing the keep and plunging Brittany into an alternate, darker path.

But time cannot abide this grave imbalance. In 1384, the timeline attempts a violent, bloody correction. Joanna's daughter is drawn back from the sterile comfort of the modern life of 2026 and thrust back into the mud, ash, and steel of her stolen past. Bearing a bog oak amulet she created from her dreams and the heavy, suffocating memories of a displaced existence, she is tasked with a monumental burden: reclaiming her birthright.

The story weaves the sensory nightmare of medieval warfare with a cosmic mandate, following a woman who must fight through a meat-grinder of dynastic conflict to force history back onto its rightful, albeit scarred, axis. It is an exploration of what it takes to mend a broken reality when every step toward equilibrium must be bought with blood and iron.

You can go to my profile and see my book and its trailer:
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Happy to share! Grunts, Gramps & Tanks: A Soldier’s Tales. A heartfelt journey of a soldier and his young family during the turbulent post-Vietnam transformation of the Army. 19 ‘Tales’ capturing their trials, setbacks and triumphs as Tyler Gordon Willett goes from corporate executive to infantry private to eventual command of a tank company. Spliced throughout are military family stories displaying a universality about marriage and child raising. rickbogdan.com Paperback, ebook and audiobook which I had great fun narrating.

The Roman: Son of Subura — Historical Fiction Set in Ancient Rome

Hi everyone! My name is James Forestall, and I'd like to introduce my historical novel, The Roman: Son of Subura.

I've been fascinated by Ancient Rome since I was a kid. One of the things that first sparked that fascination was playing Rome: Total War. I remember watching thousands of Roman soldiers forming their lines before battle and wondering what it would actually feel like to be one of them — not Caesar, not a famous general, but simply one ordinary man standing somewhere among thousands of others.

Years later, that idea became the foundation for The Roman.

The Roman: Son of Subura follows Marcus Flavius, a poor young man growing up in Rome's Subura. Marcus has no famous family name, no wealth and no political influence. He works simply to help his family survive, until circumstances eventually push him toward a very different life beneath the eagles of the Roman legions.

I wanted to tell the story of Rome from the ground rather than from the Senate chamber — through training, marching, camp life, friendships between soldiers, exhaustion, fear, battle, and the small everyday experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary historical events.

Son of Subura is the beginning of a larger story. The Roman is planned as a seven-book historical series following Marcus through the final years of the Roman Republic, including Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and the conflicts that eventually turn Romans against Romans.

The Roman: Son of Subura is currently free on Amazon, so if Roman historical fiction is something you enjoy, you're very welcome to give Marcus's story a chance.

I'm particularly interested in honest feedback. I'm not looking for guaranteed positive reviews — if you read the book, I'd genuinely like to know what worked for you and what didn't.

If you'd like to read it:

https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Son-Subu...

Thank you for giving an independent author a little space to share his work.

James Forestall
Author of The Roman series

1974 FORTRESS — A Historical Novel of the Defense of Famagusta

In July 1974, Famagusta was preparing for war.

1974 FORTRESS is a historical novel built on extensive research, eyewitness accounts, interviews, documents, and visits to the locations where the events unfolded. My aim was not simply to reconstruct military events, but to tell the human story behind them — through Turkish Cypriot fighters, officers, doctors, families, and civilians facing an uncertain siege.

One part of my research took me inside a defensive tunnel beneath Famagusta with Osman Saner, one of the men who had helped design and build it years before the conflict.

At the heart of the novel is a question:

How long can a surrounded city refuse to fall?

1974 FORTRESS was published in English in August 2026.

My new historical fiction release - and a giveaway ebook this month - is titled The Lark. Ebook available for preorder, paperback coming September 23. Here's the blurb:
When The Wizard of Oz graced the silver screen in 1939, it changed cinema and popular culture forever. But the true story began decades earlier with the young composer who risked everything to bring it to the Broadway stage.
At the turn of the century, twenty-three-year-old Paul Tietjens is a gifted classical pianist with dreams of greatness and a non-refundable ticket to Europe to study with the master composers of his time.
But when the bank calls in the debt on his family’s Missouri farm, Paul forgoes his dream to save them from financial ruin. Desperate to find a new road to success, he moves to up-and-coming Chicago, where he persuades author L. Frank Baum to collaborate on a comic opera of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, setting the stage for the defining cultural touchstone that we know today.
Paul embarks on his opera with high hopes, but scandal threatens his soaring ambition when he falls in love with his best friend’s beautiful but married sister, and his fears grow as the Wizard of Oz demands not only his talent but his soul.
Inspired by Paul’s 1901 diary, The Lark follows Paul as he journeys from the theaters of Chicago to the streets of Manhattan, from his family’s Missouri farm to the beaches of Michigan, fighting to hang onto the chance of a lifetime, his integrity, and the woman he loves.