Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Free Men and Dreamers Book 2)

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It is a dangerous time for America, and for her first American-born generation.

It is the height of the War of 1812. Cannons roar and rockets ignite American skies, tearing the nation and families apart. Jed Pearson and Hannah are among those separated by the war. Hannah heads north to the upper Connecticut Valley where typhoid is raging, while Jed’s attentions are forced elsewhere, on the Chesapeake, which guards the entrance to the infant nation’s threatened capital.

As the beleaguered American forces begin to rally, Britain needs a tactical diversion until Napoleon can be toppled in Europe and all the Crown’s resources can be diverted to the American campaign. They decide to attack the Chesapeake Bay!

Lieutenant Jed Pearson heads to war, leaving his Willows estate in the care of powerless freed slaves. But soon circumstances will blur the line between adversary and friend, family and foe, British and American.

In this second volume of the epic historical series Free Men and Dreamers, witness the saga of five families caught in the tumult of the oft-forgotten war that cemented American liberty and set the stage for the great work of the Restoration.