Explore the Best Indie Historical Fiction Books

The Western Maryland, Garret family, struggle to maintain their farm as their neighbors argue the slavery issue. They live in a border state where folks take both sides and emotions run hot. Their stoic matriarch, known only as "Mother" holds the family together in the absence of her dead husband. The deceased patriarch, Valentine, was a giant of a man both in stature and character. He acts as the family conscience and mentor throughout the novel. It is his admonition that people who get snakebit think and act crazy which is how he viewed the state of the country when he died. Gabe the eldest and an adventurer, has wandered off to Bleeding Kansas. This has left taciturn Geoffrey, the sp...

As Michael Virtue grapples with his friend’s sudden death and the end of his marriage; his lifelong obsession with the unresolved disappearance of his uncle in the Spanish Civil War gains traction. Thanks to an unlikely source, he embarks on a risky quest to solve the mystery. Once in Spain, he and his unconventional traveling companion become embroiled in a village still steeped in tragedy and retribution after 50 long years. Michael learns that war never ends for its victims.

At the end of his Grand Tour, somewhere between Athens and Constantinople, Christian Selwyn, the young Earl of Hazelmere, vanished - seemingly without trace.  His startling re-appearance at a grand ball, takes society by storm and fuels endless speculation. Where has he been during these three missing years? What happened to him?   And more importantly, how did it happen? 

Only one thing is clear.  The earl who left England five years ago, has returned a changed man.  A man with secrets.

She overcame losing her parents. When disaster strikes again, will a young quilter in 19th-century rural New Hampshire have what it takes to rebuild her life?Hannah thought she had put together the perfect life, the way she stitched fabric into quilts. But life in 19th-century rural New Hampshire brings constant challenges. Once an orphan, she’d built her own family only to have tragedy strike again and take her husband.Struggling to overcome her loss, she focuses on her small farm and young children. But when a storm severely damages her home, she doesn’t know if she has the will to start over again.Will she be able to rebuild a life for her young family and have a second chance at love...

Susanna was just a girl from Scrooby Manor in the early 1600s. Her father’s involvement in the Separatist Protestant movement, His faith and commitment molded Susanna’s path to Amsterdam and then, the Mayflower, and finally Plymouth, Massachusetts the new world.

An 8-year-old girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go? We find her photo hidden in the chimney of our old Sydney house. Now we begin a new search to discover this long-lost child. We discover a family connection going back over 5 generations. Then at last we find the vital clue.

Descartes observed that there are only six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy, and sadness. All six could be found in abundance in 17th-century New York. Dutch and Canadian fur traders competed to control access to the natives; their English and French masters used diplomacy, subterfuge and force to suppress the natives; and, the natives employed any and all means at their disposal to protect their lifestyle and even their very lives.             Sean O’Cathail finds himself in this environment after he jumps ship in Manhattan harbor and makes his way to Albany to become a fur trader.  A Dutch fur trader, A...

Jack and Charlie Davis are second-generation pilots, growing up in the pioneering aviation world of the 1920s and 1930s.  Both brothers join the Air Corps and are sent to the Far Eastern Air Force in the Philippines, a vulnerable garrison equipped with the leftover, obsolescent weapons that are all an America unprepared for war has in its arsenal. Jack and Charlie face overwhelming odds when the armed forces of Imperial Japan invade the Philippines. Their lives hang in the balance.

Bound by friendship. Divided by fate. In the unforgiving West of the late 1800s, an Apache warrior and a rancher’s son forge an unbreakable bond. Their journey—from the deserts of Arizona to the wilds of Montana—leads them through prejudice, peril, and a hidden cache of gold that draws the attention of ruthless outlaws. Torn apart by the harsh realities of the era, one dazzles in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show while the other fights to survive in Indian Country. Tragedy strikes them both—one loses a wife to a deadly storm, the other a child to racial hatred. Reunited in the shadow of the Rockies, their intertwined stories—marked by loss, loyalty, and the historic ba...