Eighteen-year-old Nathan Shelton and his friends live their lives unknowingly preparing for their greatest test of personal character, when war comes to Alabama.
First Book in the Series: Nathan Shelton
Meet Nathan Shelton, a young farmer living in the foothills of the Appalachian range, trying to find his footing after a breathtaking tragedy shatters his life. In a way, it’s good training for what will come when Alabama leaves the Union in 1861.
The Gordons, Nathan’s nearest neighbors, take Nathan in, but they can’t truly understand the challenges that come when a young man loses everything.
James and Jones Gordon, his best friends, think he should enjoy the benefits when eligible young women begin to view Nathan as husband material. But that’s the last thing on Nathan’s mind, even if he has to do his own cooking and wash his own clothes in addition to farming his land.
Nobody who hadn’t walked in Nathan’s shoes could understand.
When Minvera Gordon loses her respectability, Nathan doesn’t hesitate to take up his gun in defense of her brothers, a decision he never contemplated having to make. But life isn’t predictable and change has a way of revealing what a man’s made of.
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Jan Nichols Batts
You might say I started my career in fiction in the fourth grade, when I wrote serial novels that I passed around to the girls in my class. These novels, illustrated in pencil, coincidentally featured characters with the same names as the heroines in Little Women, my favorite book at the time. I learned the dangers of killing off a popular character and the influence critics can have on plot lines. …More
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Cotton field photograph by Michael Batts.
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