
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.
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10 books

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.
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.
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.

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.

Jodi Taylor
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.