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A Worthy Risk by T. Elizabeth Renich

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1763 – England/Pennsylvania

One for the land and one for the war—One for the church, and pray for no more… –Anonymous

Serenity Ravensworth is the lone sister among four brothers who seem to match descriptive lines of an ancient, anonymous poem. The youngest has no inheritance according to English law. The next brother in line studies to be ordained at Oxford. The soldier has been in British North America fighting the French and their native allies. And the eldest usurps control of Fernsby Hall. Reckless gambling endangers all the Ravensworth brothers and puts Serenity squarely in harm’s way.

Without the aid of Serenity’s soldier-brother, former grenadier Marcus St. James would not have made it back to England. Wounded and left for dead in the wake of the massacre at Fort Michilimackinac, Lieutenant St. James is found alive eight weeks after and five hundred miles distant from his last known whereabouts. His disturbing lack of memories gnaws at his sound mind and his sense of loss is compounded by unanswered questions.

An introduction to Miss Ravensworth inspires St. James to collect shattered pieces of the life left to him. Predicated by stronger feelings than he is able to articulate, his timely rescue of her deepens the growing attachment between them. Compelled to follow the pull of unexpected opportunities in a new land, Miss Ravensworth braves the Atlantic crossing, while St. James—at Benjamin Franklin’s behest—returns to the Pennsylvania colony as a member of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon’s survey team.

Far from the familiarity of England, will these two find purpose together or challenge apart as Parliament dictates stricter regulations and imposes taxation on British citizens dwelling in the North American colonies? The Seven Years’ War is over, but King George III’s Royal Proclamation is the first domino to fall on the way to igniting a revolution.

Strength and Glory by T. Elizabeth Renich

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1864 – Virginia

The fighting between the Confederacy and the Union evolved from a “gentlemanly conflict” to indiscriminate treachery. Measured in terms of human life, costly battles, lightning-quick raids, and secret missions effect the inevitable end of the War Between the States as President Lincoln has a commander in Ulysses S. Grant who will fight Robert E. Lee without mercy.

Returning to Virginia a young wife and expectant mother, homecoming at Shadowcreek is not what Salina Rose Hastings Barnes imagined. Yankee Major John Barnes—corrupted by a decades-old vendetta—has sworn to annihilate not only the Hastings family and the land they hold dear, but also Salina’s husband, Captain Jeremy Barnes. The love Jeremy and Salina share, combined with their faith in the Almighty, produces the strength required to endure perilous trials.

Unable to serve as an active operative in her late father’s spy ring, Salina’s war contributions seem limited to knitting socks for Southern soldiers and nursing in a Richmond hospital. As anticipated victory eludes the defiant Confederacy, Salina dreams of life beyond the conflict and harbors hopes of solving the mystery surrounding the identity of Jeremy’s natural father. The fall of Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia’s eventual surrender exact a heavy toll, but Jeremy and Salina continue to acknowledge God alone is worthy of the glory and honor for the great things He has done.

Not Without Courage by T. Elizabeth Renich

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1863 – Virginia/Pennsylvania

A survivor of Mosby’s partisan raid on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, Salina Rose Hastings finds herself in Culpeper Court House. Not even an invitation to a celebratory ball featuring time in the company of Jeremy Barnes, her betrothed, can dispel the menacing undercurrents of war.

Unable to wait on dreams postponed by yet another campaign, Salina makes a reluctant journey north to Pennsylvania, only to find herself caught squarely in the path of two converging armies and a three-day battle at Gettysburg—a battle which would come to be known as the “High Water Mark” for the Confederacy. Working alongside her brother, Ethan, an Assistant Surgeon with the Medical Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Salina does all she can to aid the wounded and the dying.

Stranded in enemy territory, Salina gathers the necessary daring to continue helping her fellow Rebels, but as the armies retreat and reform, she must face a new challenge which will require all the courage she can muster. She must count the personal cost of battle.

Matter of Trust by T Elizabeth Renich

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1862 – Virginia

The War Between the States has created a stage where true character will be tried and revealed. In this unfolding drama of conflict, the Hastings family contends with life and death, loyalty and disloyalty, and hope for a future tinged with the knowledge nothing will never be the same. Each decision will bring honor or dishonor, trust or distrust, truth or deception.

Risking her life, Salina Hastings kept her word of honor to her father and to a struggling Confederacy by delivering secret documents to a Rebel contact in San Francisco. Following the darkness of Alcatraz and a treacherous journey back to her beloved Virginia, Salina faces the threat of execution as a Confederate spy for her refusal to abandon the deep-seated loyalty to all she holds dear.

Reunited, Salina and Jeremy’s relationship is sorely tried by questionable allegiances, doubt, miscommunication, and deliberate lies as they weather the ongoing war. Their trust in God and in one another is the only way they can withstand the turmoil which besets them.

Word of Honor by T. Elizabeth Renich

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1862 – Virginia

Salina Hastings’ sixteenth birthday came on the heels of Jeremy Barnes’ return from California in August 1862. It was the summer Ethan, Salina’s older brother, asked Taylor Sue Carey to be his bride—not long before the day the Rebels and Yankees clashed at the Battle of Chantilly.

Salina inherited a keen sense of adventure from her father, a Confederate captain and spy. As the war drags on, loyalty and survival draw Salina into risking her life in service of Captain Hastings’ “Network.” In spite of mounting danger, Salina gathers her courage, determined to do what she can to restore the days she loved—precious time with her family, her friends, and Jeremy—Virginia as it was prior to secession and invasion.

Captain Duncan Grant, a Union secret agent, has orders to stop the flow of information to the South. His assignment takes him on a search for the leader of this circle of Southern civilian spies. Captain Grant’s persistent search is not only for information, but also for anyone who might lead him to the stolen documents he must recover for the North.