Justin Lindsay
Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Robert Smalls’ meteoric rise from a slave at the eve of the American Civil War to famous war hero, then…
Fallen Land
During the US Civil War, Callum, an orphaned Irish immigrant, runs afoul of his commanding officer when he deserts to…
Water Ghosts
James McCafferty would rather be anywhere else than on this Chinese Junk his mother has forced him onto. Meant to…
Ice Queen: Book Two of Odd Tangle-Hair’s Saga
Odd Tangle-Hair, exiled Icelander and skald to Harald, renegade prince of Norway, is deeply enmeshed in the politics and personalities…
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Housing four of the five senses, our brain, and the body’s most elaborate set of muscles, the head naturally ranks…
Iron and Rust: Throne of the Caesars, Book 1
The murder of Emperor Alexander in the year AD 235 begins what is known to us as the Year of…
The Girls of Gettysburg
With both her older brothers dead while serving in the Confederate Army, and nothing to keep her home, thirteen-year-old Annie…
The Pale House
Gregor Reinhardt is a decorated war hero, a veteran of both the First World War and the current one, in…
Fire and Sword
In June 1488 two Scottish armies meet at Sauchieburn. The Sempills of Ellestoun fight for their king, but lose to…
Surfmen
When Captain Hooper is approached by his congressman to become the keeper for the new United States Lifesaving Service’s most…
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