Thomas Craighead, the first child of Scottish immigrants born in the New World, falls in love with Sophrona Hackett of Baltimore Town. Thomas, though, refuses marriage in her father's church. While he accompanies his father to Fort Cumberland, hauling for King George, her father instigates a replacement.Would they fight so hard to wed, knowing the road to happiness takes them far from home and the ones they love? As Sophrona searches for relief from their dead babies buried in the family graveyard, a child will elude them until her encounter with Thomas' God Almighty.This son joins the Revolutionary War, leaving them to wonder if he will survive. Set during the turbulent years of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, this novel follows a young couple as they establish a new home and family during violent, unsettled times in a distant land.
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