In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied
Georgia 1864: Sherman's army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path: the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies-attractive widow Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old d
At the turn of the century, failing health makes Gideon Kent fear for the future of his family dynasty, for his daughter Eleanor, an actress, and his sons, Carter, a con man, and Will, who was scarred
The private conflicts and romantic entanglements of the Kent family take place against the backdrops of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the age of railroads and robber barons. Reprint.
As the American nation is torn apart by the devastation and bloodshed of the Civil War, the Kent dynasty is divided by hatred, greed, and opposing loyalties.
Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and r
Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous
The illegitimate son of a British nobleman finds a passion for life under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin, gets a job at a printing house, discovers Sam Adams's writings, and becomes a soldier durin
Charleston follows the lives, loves and shifting fortunes of the unforgettable Bell family from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the savage defeat of the Confederacy-a
Updated with three new stories, a collection of Old West short stories features the tale of a sheriff facing a hardened killer, a resourceful woman who saves a rebel from a bitter life, and a ruthless
An Alternate Selection of the Literary GuildR John Jakes, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling North and South Trilogy, returns to the Civil War with On Secret Service—the story
The lives and fortunes of the members of the Crown family--Paul; his German-born uncle, Joseph; Joseph's wife, Ilsa; and their rebellious son, Joe--are set against the turbulent backdrop of 1890s Chic
From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of the Crown family--first introduced in the New York Times bestseller Homeland. As the second generation comes
