Early United States
Red Sky in Morning
Coll Coyle makes a dreadful mistake that changes the course of his life and is set to lose everything as…
Windswept
Prepare to be swept away by this romance set in 1838. Virginia Ames has been shipwrecked in the Florida Keys…
Kind One
This spare novel begins with foreboding: “Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. I was one of them.”…
A Call to Arms
The fourth in a series, this historical novel details the lives of Richard Cutler and his family as the young…
Brock’s Railroad
Luther Johnson risks the treacherous Niagara Falls to escape slave catchers. Once in Canada, he joins the Company of Colored…
The Flight of the Wretched: A Journey to the New World
Ireland in the 1830s is under unthinkable stress. Already divided into hostile groups – upper and lower class, Protestant and…
Choices of the Heart
This inspirational story follows Esther Cherrett, beginning in 1840 as she leaves behind her preacher father and midwife mother and…
Red River Stallion
Amelia Otterchild Mackenzie is a fourteen-year-old living on Canada’s Hudson Bay in the early 19th century. Abandoned first by her…
Against the Tide
As a child, Lydia Pallas lived on her father’s fishing boat, traveling from Greece to Italy and then to Boston…
Path of Freedom
In pre-Civil War North Carolina, Quaker sisters Flora and Irene are excited about their first train ride to Charlottesville, Virginia.…
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