Book 1, A Time to Fight
Amanda, Colin, and Ben. All they ever wanted was to be in the Colonies, to escape the tyranny of the English aristocracy, to worship freely, to build a life together.
Colin Michael Browning dreams of a new life in the American colonies. He works in the family business as a blacksmith. Amanda Andrews is Colin’s soul mate who embroiders in her father’s tailoring shoppe. Benjamin Andrews, Amanda’s twin brother and Colin’s best friend, is a theology student who rejects the Anglican Church during a time of persecution of Protestants in England. Ben yearns for the religious freedom available in Colonial America. These three plan a wedding and a journey to the New World. Their plan is derailed when Colin is forced into joining the King ‘s Army.
The wedding interrupted, Ben and Amanda fulfill a promise to Colin to go to the Colonies without him while he begins his obligation to the King’s army. Ben and Amanda move to Boston just before the American Revolution begins. Colin’s unit is also moved to America to fight against the colonists. Colin will commit treason to be with the woman and nation he loves. Divided by loyalties and responsibilities, Colin, Ben, and Amanda struggle to begin their Colonial Dream.
Book 2, A Time to Love
Susannah Hawthorne only planned to help Louisa Browning elope with her beau from Boston. Her father, Rev. Hawthorne, performed the short ceremony, and then Louisa and Theo headed for the train station.
Louisa’s brother, blacksmith Michael Browning, saw it as betrayal. A lonely bachelor who found himself raising his siblings after the deaths of his mother, father, aunt, and uncle. Without Louisa, he is alone with no one to cook, clean, and care for his needs. He decides Susannah owes him a debt for her role in the ‘escape’ of his sister.
Susannah and her friend Rachel decide to find Michael a mate to allow Susannah to be released from the charitable bondage she has taken for Michael’s sake. Will their matchmaking attempts succeed? Will Susannah, the beauty, fall for Michael, the beast?
Book 3, A Time to Choose
One man committed to serving God and country.
One woman committed to bringing slavery to an end.
Captain Andrew Browning’s new assignment is to head up security at the Lincoln White House. A Virginian and a longtime friend of Robert E. Lee, he must decide whether to resign from the Union Army. His long-time fiancée is a beautiful Southern belle whose father runs a plantation with slaves who were Andrew’s childhood friends. His choices will also affect his family: his blacksmith father, mother, and twin sisters.
Maggie Strickland’s mission is to bring a petition from Massachusetts abolitionists to Lincoln demanding an end to slavery. A Harvard graduate in political science and journalism, Maggie writes about her passions and the war under a pseudonym. She plans to change the South and give her heart to Andrew, a man who has made difficult choices and is embittered by his former relationships. Impetuous and driven, Maggie’s passion for her family, justice, and God determines her choices.
A Time to Choose is a Christian historical romance set in Washington, DC, during the Civil War years.
Can two people make the world a better place to raise the next generation of Americans?
Book 4, A Time to Create
Coming soon!!
Lincoln Andrew Browning, Maggie and Andrew’s surviving twin, is invited to help create the first city-wide electric tram system in the United States in Richmond. It’s 1887, and he’s convinced that blacksmiths are on the way out in a world of electricity and automobiles.
Miranda, Andie to her friends, is an orphan with grand plans. She hopes to open a hat shop in Richmond. Until then, she works at Thalhimer’s department store.
She meets Lincoln at a boardinghouse run by the Samuels.
Diane E Tatum, Writer 