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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 / 1658Time-slipRomanceEarly modernBritain & Ireland
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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: 1790sMysteryRegency / NapoleonicBritain & Ireland
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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: 1750sLiteraryAdventure & epicEarly modernLatin America
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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 NovaAdventure & epicTime-slipLate 20th centuryEurope
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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 InstituteTime-slipAdventure & epicLate 20th centuryBritain & Ireland
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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: 1150Adventure & epicLiteraryMedievalEurope
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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: 1609–1670BiographicalLiteraryEarly modernBritain & Ireland
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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: 1976LiteraryMysteryCold WarNorth America
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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. 880–918BiographicalLiteraryMedievalBritain & Ireland
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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: 1650sRomanceAdventure & epicEarly modernBritain & Ireland
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