Indian Wars Fiction

The border country has erupted in flames! It is 1763: The French and Indian War is over. But the tribes of the Ohio Country, under a charismatic leader named Pontiac, have united in bloody rebellion against their new British rulers and the relentless waves of European settlers who threaten their way of life. Young Wend Eckert, German by birth and Scots-Irish by adoption, marches as a scout with the British Army to find the dazzling English girl who was his first love and is now the captive of a Mingo war captain. The youth must help Colonel Henry Bouquet of the Royal Americans guide an ...

If you like complex characters, engaging action, and stories based on real people, then you’ll love Norbert Aubrey’s revolutionary tale. The American Frontier, 1777. Lewis Wetzel will battle to his last breath. Hit in the breastbone by a musket ball, the wounded fourteen-year-old looks up to see the painted faces of the men attacking. So he panics and runs for his life, only for he and his brother to be quickly captured. Knotche swore vengeance on his father’s murder. So after trespassers ignored warnings and put up a cabin near his tribe's territory, the raiding party leader vows to ...

In the tumultuous wake of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, a Jacobite exile flees a broken Scotland to seek sanctuary in the New World. Arriving in the bustling chaos of Philadelphia in 1750, he finds himself a reluctant immigrant, his soldier's past a source of bitter shame. But as tensions rise between the British and French empires over control of the Ohio Country, a new opportunity arises. Recruited to join the newly formed Pennsylvania Rangers, he is thrust onto the savage American frontier. This is a world of brutal survival, where loyalties are tested, and the rules of Old World warfare ...

The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. Jonathan Zane and Lewis Wetzel face constant action, trying turn the tide. But just when the beautiful Betty Sheppard has convinced Jonathan to give up his lonely war, she is captured, and taken into the unknown wilderness. Jonathan and Lewis set out on their last desperate journey to save her.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Indian Wars, then pay attention.... Three captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: American Indian Wars, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, and The Wounded Knee Massacre.

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were...

Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map...

De tha sinn a' deanamh an seo, Ewan ? What are we doing here, Ewan ? This is the question asked by Ewan MacKenzie's friend Alexander MacDonald. What could make a man fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie against the hated Redcoats , yet only a decade later become a Redcoat himself ? This is an epic tale of individuals, societies and nations in transition on both sides of the Atlantic. Ewan's journey takes him from wild Highland charges in the Jacobite Rising to massed Redcoat volleys in the two great battles for Quebec. Along the way, he will wade ashore ,under fire, on Ile Royale before the ...

A war-torn land. A forgotten boy. A love that changes everything. In the heart of occupied Kashmir, seventeen-year-old Imran Ullah has spent his life haunted by a past he never knew. Orphaned as an infant by the Indian army, Imran has grown up amid poverty, violence, and a relentless search for meaning in a world that seems to have forgotten him. But everything changes the day he meets Fiza, a girl whose kindness begins to unravel the pain buried deep within him. As their bond grows, Imran embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about his parents’ deaths—and to discover his place in a...

The Crow Creek Expedition is the third book in the duelist series. In The Confederate Cipher, young Henry Hudson begins his journey down the rabbit hole of espionage as an initiate, guided by the fledgling British Secret Service. In Hudson’s Scouts, he expands his tradecraft and gains experience during the War of Southern Independence. The Crow Creek Expedition begins with a massacre and ends with a prophecy. There is something intoxicating about a secret. Fraternal societies base their rites on symbolic rituals that take the initiate on a journey from darkness into light. Secret ...

The second book in the Forbes Road/Wend Eckert Series Insurrection Sweeps the Border Settlements! Young sharpshooter and gunsmith Wend Eckert returns to the Pennsylvania border settlements from his service as s scout during Pontiac's Rebellion. He is determined to take revenge against wealthy Indian trader Richard Grenough and his henchmen---the men who were responsible for the death of his family. But Eckert finds that the Ulster-Scot settlers are infuriated by the refusal of the pacifist government in Philadelphia to help defend the border country from rampaging war parties. In ...

Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help of two freed slaves, the Bougereau siblings. They try to keep the brutal outside world at bay, along with their memories of the past.

Thrones and Thorns A royal marriage. A buried bloodline. A love that could ignite a kingdom. When fierce, self-made lawyer Ishita Mehra is thrown into an arranged marriage with the enigmatic royal heir Arjun Choudhari, it seems like just another business deal between dynasties. But fate has a sharper plan. As Ishita uncovers secrets about her birth—ones that tie her to the ancient bloodline of Devgarh—the palace corridors erupt in whispers, betrayals, and power games. Across velvet courtrooms and candlelit ceremonies, she must fight not just for her identity, but for her kingdom. ...

Little Turtle: The Rising in Ohio plunges into the brutal and relentless struggle for the Northwest Territories in the decades following the American Revolution, from 1785 to 1813. This historical novel offers a raw, immersive journey into a pivotal chapter of American history. The nascent United States, barely out of its swaddling clothes, finds itself a collection of squabbling states, bound by a weak central authority, attempting to claim the vast Northwest Territory ceded by Britain. Against this backdrop, American pioneers like Thomas and Elara MacGregor brave the untamed wilderness, ...

“Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a...

When the Confederacy concentrated their forces at Corinth, Mississippi preparatory to attacking General U. S. Grant’s army at Shiloh in April 1862, the Rebel brass ordered the largest army west of the Mississippi River–The Army of the West–to join the concentration. Although it did not arrive at Corinth until after Shiloh had been fought and lost, the bulk of the Army of the West remained east of the Mississippi River until the end of the war. Consequently, the Northern front of the Confederate battle line west of the River was almost defenseless. Even after Arkansans complained to ...

New Hampshire Colony, 1725 After meeting Captain Sheldon, he arranges a meeting with the Governor who promises to try to find her two kidnapped daughters. A letter arrives from Rachel in New France. Someone breaks down their door and a drunk is hurled inside. At the Meeting House on Sunday, the minister accuses them of having a drunken party. The truth comes out and the minister apologizes. Tamsen goes into labor. The midwife discovers there is a dangerous problem with the birth. Meanwhile, Rachel, who was kidnapped by the Abenaki, is embroiled in tribal unrest. Chief Orono fears for her ...

“CHILLING HISTORICAL HORROR” “Wildly imaginative” A delicious mix of history, horror, and love. Three early American gothic tales, including America’s last witch trial in 1730, the birth of the Jersey Devil in 1735, and the true origin of the Headless Horseman in 1776. In 1730 Ben Franklin published a story about a witch trial in Mount Holly, in The Pennsylvania Gazette. But did he tell the complete story, or was it a coverup of more sinister and frightening events? Emmet, an aspiring reporter, takes his first assignment for Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette and travels to New ...

In the unforgiving spring of 1755, two young men with romantic notions of glory join a grand expedition into the American wilderness. Silas and Jeremiah, weary of their quiet lives in rural Virginia, enlist with Major General Edward Braddock's formidable army. Their objective: seize the French stronghold of Fort Duquesne. But the road is a crucible of bone-deep exhaustion, blistering heat, and the ever-present, unseen threat lurking in the dense forests of western Pennsylvania. As Braddock’s road grinds to a halt on the banks of the Monongahela River, the dreams of fortune give way to a ...