Explore the Best Indie Historical Fiction Books

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...