Discover the Best Historical Fiction Indie Books

In 1898, against her parents' wishes, Seventeen-year-old Sarah leaves her stifling family home in New Hampshire with a man she loves but barely knows to discover a new life in the Arizona Territories. On the way, Sarah tells James she is pregnant, and they marry in Flagstaff. James's dream of becoming a cowboy is fulfilled when they are hired to work on an isolated cattle ranch. Sarah loves her new independence and life as a new mother, but James's drinking and gambling threaten to destroy their marriage. As James becomes increasingly violent, even her life and that of her baby are at risk.Sarah gains strength from her friendships with the owners of the ranch and other members of her remote ...

Orphaned during the Civil War, Hannah weathers many storms in her life, yet finds strength in her family, friends, and her own resilience. Raised by a caring aunt in a small New England farming community, she grew from a frightened child to a confident woman and successful quilter and business owner, at a time when few opportunities were available to women. Readers will experience for themselves what it was like to grow up without any of our modern conveniences, and the excitement of discovering one's own abilities and strengths.Told 'in her own words', this fictional memoir is based on many of the author's own life experiences and those of her family transposed to another time. These '...

The Last Pilgrim: The Life of Mary Allerton Cushman captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women, who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world – one filled with hardship, danger, and death.  The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them. Mary Allerton Cushman was the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower, dying at age 88 in 1699. Her unusually long life and her relationships with important men – her father, Isaac Allerton, and her husband, Thomas Cushman – gave her a front-row seat to the history of the Plymouth Colony from its beginnings as the first permanent settlement in New England to when it became part of ...

Maddie Thornton is a modern New York woman transported back to the Year of Our Lord, 1878.

It all started with a television show! A popular English series.  Knights of Chivalry.

Having saved for a trip of a lifetime, one of the chosen few to actually be invited to a live film set, she is approached by a strange man.

Maddie quickly removes herself from the supposed danger.

When suddenly, her world shifts on its axis and all has changed.

A pair of fire-breathing horses are barreling toward her at breakneck speed.  She is standing in the middle of a cobblestone road in the middle of nowhere...

Maddie Thornton is a modern New York woman transported back to the Year of Our Lord, 1878.

 It all started with a television show! A popular English series.  Knights of Chivalry.

Having saved for a trip of a lifetime, one of the chosen few to actually be invited to a live film set, she is approached by a strange man.

Maddie quickly removes herself from the supposed danger.

When suddenly, her world shifts on its axis and all has changed.

A pair of fire-breathing horses are barreling toward her at breakneck speed.  She is standing in the middle of a cobblestone road in the middle of nowhere...

 

Western adventure under the pen name, CJ Briar

Joshua Grimm returns to Lost River to visit his parents' graves. He left ten years before, after watching them die. Now he's a man looking for his past. Suddenly, he faces the same nemesis that killed his parents, and finds himself in a battle with renegades, Indians, and the law. All the while, he's trying to protect the woman he finds living on his parents' old ranch.

Written under the pen name CJ Briar. 

Nathaniel Smith and his partner Emilio Baca thought the war was over and home was just over the horizon as they traveled the Santa Fe Trail. A windfall of gold and a bad choice of partners bring back the violence and brutality they thought they left behind. This tale set in the scenery and history of the Southwest is the prequel to Lost River Dilemma and takes us back to where it all began. A classic western adventure.

 

Persecuted to extinction, the Cathar heretics desperately want revenge against the Church of Rome. It arrives in abundance 750 years later.Condemned as heretics by the Catholic Church, the 13th-century Cathars are persecuted, tortured, and finally burned alive at Montségur. But according to legend, they hide their riches and relic beyond the castle walls on the eve of their demise. In the 1930s, Otto Rahn dedicates his life to recovering the long-forgotten relic, and coerced by Himmler joins the SS to find the ‘Holy Grail’ for the Nazis. Exposed as both Jewish and homosexual, Rahn commits suicide. But not before he entrusts his notes to his niece. Notes that have never been found.Seekin...

Rediscovery of his long lost daughter, last seen as a tiny baby, gives him the chance to start anew. With her he seeks to discover the mysteries of the old house he lives in and secrets buried beneath its floor. They uncover the fate of a missing women of 30 years past and a family story that joins the past to the present.

 When Sean O’Cathail jumped ship in New York Harbor in 1681, he didn’t plan to become a boschloper. Getting into the fur trade was just where he landed. On the run, O’Cathail finds his way to Albany and becomes a fur trader at a time when English, Dutch and French colonists fight to control access to the fur-trapping natives. The colonial masters use diplomacy, subterfuge and force to suppress the natives while the natives employ all the means at their disposal to protect their lifestyle and even their very lives.In this environment, O’Cathail faces adversity, danger and intrigue while securing an English-Iroquois alliance, thus thwarting the efforts of the French to divide and ...