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Historical fiction from independent and self-published authors — including starter picks and books submitted through HisFic and approved for discovery. These titles also appear in journey search when era, place, or story type match. HisFic is not a bookstore — links go to Amazon product pages.

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A Rip in the Veil

Anna Belfrage

A modern woman is torn through time into the seventeenth century and into the life of a man haunted by his own past. First in a long-running indie time-slip series.

IndieStory: 2002 / 1658Early modernTime-slip
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Bloodie Bones

Lucienne Boyce

In the 1790s West Country, a Bow Street Runner investigates murder against the upheaval of enclosure and rural unrest. First in an indie historical mystery series.

IndieStory: 1790sRegency / NapoleonicMystery
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England 1811. Thomas Crabbe has just entered the ailing George III's navy as a young cadet. After a running battle with an American privateer ship, an injury confines him to the galley as the ship's cook. While there he befriends an indentured African and the ship's cat. Their ship is captured and the three friends…

IndieStory: 1811-1820Regency / NapoleonicAdventure & epic
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Cut From The Earth

Stephanie Renee dos Santos

In colonial Brazil, a mixed-race sculptor’s apprentice is pulled into intrigue around sacred art, power, and freedom. Indie HF spotlighting a less-told setting.

IndieStory: 1750sEarly modernLiterary
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INCEPTIO

Alison Morton

What if a remnant of Rome had survived into the modern age? A young New Yorker is pulled into Roma Nova’s intrigue and danger. Flagship of an indie alternate-history series.

IndieStory: early 21st century · Roma NovaLate 20th centuryAdventure & epic
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Historians at St Mary’s travel through time to document the past — and discover that history fights back. The series began as a self-published hit before finding a wide audience.

IndieStory: time-slip · St Mary’s InstituteLate 20th centuryTime-slip
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Song at Dawn

Jean Gill

In twelfth-century Provence, a gifted young woman navigates troubadour courts, politics, and peril after fleeing her past. First in an indie medieval series rich with song and setting.

IndieStory: 1150MedievalAdventure & epic
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Scotland, 1884. When artist Magdalena McLeod returns to her ancestral home on the Isle of Skye following her mother's death, she expects to confront grief and the responsibilities of a mysterious inheritance. Instead, she discovers that Lochier Manor holds secrets her family has guarded for generations. An enigmati…

IndieStory: 1884 Victorian EraVictorian / Gilded AgeMystery
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The Lady of the Tower

Elizabeth St.John

Lucy St.John, based on the author’s ancestor, becomes mistress of the Tower of London under the early Stuarts — a life of privilege, danger, and divided loyalties.

IndieStory: 1609–1670Early modernBiographical
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The Pecan Man

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

In 1970s Florida, a family’s quiet life is upended when a homeless man becomes entangled in a tragedy that forces buried truths into the open. A beloved indie debut.

IndieStory: 1976Cold WarLiterary
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To Be A Queen

Annie Whitehead

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians — daughter of Alfred the Great — fights to hold a kingdom in the Viking age. Carefully researched indie biographical fiction.

IndieStory: c. 880–918MedievalBiographical
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Traitor's Knot

Cryssa Bazos

After the English Civil War, a Royalist smuggler and a Parliamentarian’s widow are drawn together by danger, duty, and an impossible attraction. Award-winning indie historical romance.

IndieStory: 1650sEarly modernRomance
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