Historical fiction ranging from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and into the late 1800's. It is fictional but based somewhat on stories told by my grandmother and mother-in-law.
The Langston Saga chronicles the Dunn
and Langston families' struggles to
survive through wars and adversity for
nearly a hundred years.
Members of the Dunn and Langston
families had fought for freedom from the
earliest days of the new nation. Their
sons and daughters continued to step up
in times of danger to protect the land
they had tamed and called their home.
After the debilitating losses of the Civil
War, Matt and Megan Langston moved
their family to Texas to escape the cruel
inequities of reconstruction. Texas was
a land of its own, retaining in many
ways the sovereignty of its entity as a
Republic. There they encountered new
dangers... rustlers, thieves, and hostile
Indians.
A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before
Third Book in Five Book Series - Southern Swallow - a tale of 12th Century China. Li K'ai-men becomes entangled in an intrigue that becomes his undoing.
