Books and Series
Documented Historical Fiction — Built on Fact. Driven by Character.
No two of them alike. The settings change from book to book. The writer does not, and neither does his standard.
Every TurningPoint Press book is built the same way. The prose is lean, with no wasted words and no scenes that perform instead of work. The story shows you the moment and trusts you to feel it without being told how. The history holds up, and where a companion Historical Library exists, it marks the exact line where the record ends and the story begins.
Read one book and you will know the hand that wrote the next.
The Flagship Series · Available Now
Sparks of Liberty
Historical Fiction · The American Founding Era
The stories history books skip. The ordinary people at extraordinary moments, the carpenter, the sailor, the agent, the soldier, who made decisions that changed the next four hundred years.
The Speedwell’s Confession.
Available now on Amazon Kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited.
What the Candle Witnessed.
Available now on Amazon Kindle.
The Day the Mayflower Should Have Sunk.
In production.
Lantern at the Table.
In production.
The Speedwell’s Confession
When a Ship Refused to Lie
Western Ocean, August 1620. A ship’s carpenter discovers his captain is deliberately sinking the pinnace to escape his contract. Seventy passengers pray in the hold. One man with an ash-wood brake and a rope must decide whether to speak the truth.
JOIN, or DIE
Benjamin Franklin and the woodcut that warned thirteen colonies.
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Six more series are underway. Each one is built to the same standard.
Aegean Confidential
Where secrets remain secrets. Until they don’t.
1923 to 1929 · Historical Cozy Mystery
The S.S. Aegean Pacific is a luxury charter yacht crossing the Pacific in the bright, brittle years after the Great War. Aboard her, Ship’s Nurse Evelyn Mallow watches the champagne set up close. She has seen worse in a French field hospital, and she knows a corpse from a scandal.
In development. More soon.
The MANTIS Directive
Adventure Thriller · Underwater Archaeology and Historical Recovery
Master salvage expert Cal Thorne pulls secrets from the bottom of the ocean. Some of them were meant to stay there.
The series is built on real sunken history, real recovered artifacts, and an enemy syndicate that will do anything to keep the past buried.
Coming soon from TurningPoint Press.
Where the Buffalo Fell
Historical Fiction · Dodge City, 1870 to 1920
Not stories of conquest. Stories of mercy.
The American West was not won. It was endured by the people who were already there and the people who arrived believing in something better than what they left behind.
The Garden of Three Graves. Coming soon.
Her First Born
Historical Fiction · American Family History
Based on real family genealogy. Real names. Real places. Real disasters survived by ordinary women who refused to quit.
Safe Is Not Safe. Coming soon.
Her Name Was
Historical Fiction · The Biblical Lineage of Jesus
History recorded their sons. It forgot their names.
Six women in the lineage of Jesus, unnamed, undertold, written out of the story they made possible. This series gives them back their voices, their decisions, and their place in the record.
Her Name Was Tamar. Coming soon.
Sparks Puzzlers
Historical Word Search and Puzzle Books
Night Watch, The Watchers of the Night. A tribute to the people who keep the world running while the rest of us sleep. One hundred themed word searches across six categories.
Night Watch is available now on Amazon. Read Night Watch on Amazon →
Where History Comes to Life.
The Standard, in a Sentence
“She was an ordinary trading vessel. She did her work and was not noticed.”
From The Speedwell’s Confession · Author’s Historical Library