This Week in History

Ever wondered what happened on a given day many years ago? Well here, the HistFic team bring you some of the highlights!

The Dead May Rise ✓ (GxG)

All her life, Aedona "Donnie" Stavayeva has had a crush on the mysterious woman dubbed "the Warmonger"; it's ruined her chances for relationships. Now, in 1915--during the peak of World War 1, Donnie's brother--Pyotr--enlists in the military. Donnie decides to take up a job as a nurse, in hopes she'll cross paths with...

The Scourge - Pirates & Privateers

SHORTLISTED FOR WATTYS 2022 What should have been an easy payday for a band of British privateers turns into a desperate fight for survival when they find a young woman in the wreck of a schooner. Life is unforgiving for any privateering ship fighting in the Queen Anne's War, but of all the leaky tubs on the Caribbean...

Jade Fire | Origins of The Great Wall

🏆WINNER of September '23 on Wattpad's @HistoricalFiction! Previously titled "Mysteries of Jade Fire" ══════════ After a harrowing hike towards The Great Wall of China, Quentin Trevelyan, expeditionist and scholar to all things great for the mind, has a piece for the venture he sorely wanted to solve. Hundreds of myst...

SCREAM, NIGHTINGALE, SCREAM ✓

WHAT'S MORE COMMON IN WAR: LOYALTY OR BETRAYAL? April 1944. After so-called liberation from both the Nazis and the Soviets, Ukraine remains a battleground between resistance fighters and the ruthless Soviet secret police working to break them at all costs. Amidst the chaos, Taras Savaryn, an apathetic cavalry captain...

Haunted Hearts

After losing three fiancés in tragic accidents over the past six years, Lady Elphi Matson knows three things for certain: heartache only maims its victim when it should kill, not all haunted places are crumbling castles, and without a doubt, she is cursed when it comes to falling in love. Able to see ghosts since su...