Dawn of America series
The American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
These were the heroes whose courage gave birth to America’s independence, their stories told in a series of trilogies.
The Privateers
They were the daring American seamen who seized British merchant ships during the Revolutionary War. Initially operating in the shadows as a pirate militia of the sea, they successfully disrupted British supply lines to aid the Continental Army. General George Washington encouraged them and American Patriots embraced them. Eventually they were armed with letters of marque, transforming them from outlaws to official heroes, allowing them to seize enemy vessels as prizes of war. Individual colonies (states after 1776) commissioned privateers, and in March 1776 the Continental Congress began issuing commissions. America’s fledgling navy never had enough ships to do all they did without the help of the Patriot privateers. While the ports of Boston, New York and others were blockaded by squadrons of British warships, the privateers managed to slip to sea and spread destruction. Their success was so profound it led the British merchants to protest the continuation of “the American war.”
“...deeply researched and brilliantly imagined stories that will resonate with lovers of historical fiction, readers struggling with trust and love, as well as those fascinated by nautical and revolutionary history.”
~ The Feathered Quill
The Daughters of Light (coming in early 2027)
In the years of the American Revolution, while armies marched and generals deliberated, women labored in quieter fields of courage. They gathered funds and provisions, nursed the wounded, sustained households in the absence of husbands and sons, and bore uncertainty with a steadiness rarely recorded in official dispatches. Rooted in faith and guided by a trust in Providence, they understood liberty not merely as a political aim, but as a moral calling.
Though they often stood behind the men whose names history remembers, behind Washington’s trusted officers, behind governors and statesmen, their contributions to the cause of independence were neither ornamental nor small. They were partners in sacrifice, guardians of conscience, and keepers of hope when victory was far from certain. Through conviction, devotion, and endurance, they helped shape the character of a nation still being born.
They were, in their generation, the daughters of light.
