For the first time ever, and with a big thank you to the original publisher, every e-volume of my award-winning American historical fiction series, FREE MEN and DREAMERS, is discounted.
You can now download the entire series for under $10.00 for a limited time.
This eight-year labor of love takes six families--three American, two British, and one slave--through 40 years of tumultuous American history. Witness the second war of independence, the War of 1812, the war most historians credit with forging a loose confederation of states into one nation under God. Experience the Chesapeake campaign, the burning of Washington, the Battle of Baltimore, the Star- Spangled Banner story, and the first major test of the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom.
For the first time ever, and with a big thank you to the original publisher, every e-volume of my award-winning American historical fiction series, FREE MEN and DREAMERS, is discounted.
You can now download the entire series for under $10.00 for a limited time.
This eight-year labor of love takes six families--three American, two British, and one slave--through 40 years of tumultuous American history. Witness the second war of independence, the War of 1812, the war most historians credit with forging a loose confederation of states into one nation under God. Experience the Chesapeake campaign, the burning of Washington, the Battle of Baltimore, the Star- Spangled Banner story, and the first major test of the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom.
Every book lover has found a few authors, (hopefully me included) whose books speak personally to them, either easing them away from their current cares, or tackling hard topics with characters whose perspective or courage or humor inspires or challenges them in new ways. These are authors and books we cherish.
But what happens when we've read through that author's catalog and seek out new books and new voices? It can be tricky. And costly. We've all read a book we've wanted to toss across the room, or set on a cafe table and walk away from. That's a big financial ouch if we've bought it.
Here's a risk-free promo for HISTORICAL FICTION lovers. My Book Cave Promos has gathered 15 authors, myself included, who are offering one of their historical e-books for free in exchange for a chance to put their work in front of you and hopefully add you to their list of loyal readers. Click the pic above to peruse the titles and select books. You can also enter to win a $25 gift card!
I'm offering "In God is Out Trust," volume 5 of Free Men and Dreamers. Readers can also pick up volume three for free as well at https://mybookcave.com/d/ce3e0f00/. Now you're on your way to owning a much beloved series set against the back drop of the War of 1812.
Try out these other wonderful authors' books for free!
Lovers of historical romance will relish Did Lawson’s Hohenstein, an engaging pre-World War I
glimpse into the privilege and problems besetting the German aristocracy, and
the young nobles caught in the transition to the modern world.
Nineteen-year-old Marie Louise, Baroness von Hohenstein, and
heir of Hohenstein Castle, is a headstrong heiress with serious money troubles.
Abandoned by party-seeking mother to the care of a stern aunt as a child, and
then carted off to boarding school upon her father’s death when only seven,
Marie-Louise has learned to be independent and determined.
The inexplicable failure of her solicitor to pay her tuition
brings her home to Hohenstein after a twelve-year absence. Marie-Louise is stunned
to discover that the staff has been dismissed due to lack of funds, and her stern
and proper Aunt Ambrosia, defender of the aristocracy, is the cook, maid, and
gardener. More distressing, the castle is in dire need of repairs, and the responsibility
to restore the House of Hohenstein rests on her pretty, young shoulders.
A trip to Wolfburg Bank to meet with a loving but distant
uncle, Count Wolfburg, or Onkel Georg, upends her world as she discovers that the
count has passed away, leaving the bank and the responsibility for the entire
family, of which she is a part, to his dashing oldest son, Ulrich.
Ulrich remembers Marie-Louise as a mischievous child, and
she sees him as a handsome, chiseled version of the same standoffish snob she
remembers—the snob also assigned to manage her strictly guarded trust, of which
only a small allowance is available to her until her twenty-fifth birthday or
her wedding day.
Ulrich’s cat-and-mouse flirtations disarm her while he
refuses her any sort of financial help to save the castle, and as rumors abound
about his impending engagement. Marie-Louise’s pride, and lack of experience
with romance, get her into scrape after scrape, requiring some damage control
by the family members she is learning to both love and rely upon.
Lawson pulls from her beloved German heritage, sprinkling Hohenstein with delightful details and
rich, descriptive settings. Her phrasing has a German lilt that, when combined
with dozens of regional names and phrases, anchors the reader in the story and
time.
Lovers of romance will not be disappointed. Lawson turns up
the heat while keeping the book a clean read suitable even for mature teens. Details
and questions raised throughout the story are tied together nicely, leaving
readers satisfied and smiling. Best of all, Hohenstein
achieves what readers of historicals want. It transports you to another
place and time, entertains, and becomes a trusted guide. What more could a
reader ask?
Didi Lawson’s beautiful Hohenstein
cover, and her engaging story and settings inspired me to do a little
reader-research of my own, placing the restored castle and its surrounding
communities on my list of places I’d love to visit. Start with the trailer,
then grab the book. You’ll be glad you did.
