A hardworking tobacco farmer in the Carolina Uplands, Justin Harris wants only to provide for his family. The outbreak of revolution turns his life upside down, and he cannot anticipate how even his seemingly most inconsequential actions will touch the lives of generations yet to come. Through crushing setbacks and hard-won victories, Justin's perseverance serves as a gift to his descendants.

Seen through the eyes of a Loyalist evacuee from Massachusetts, and her correspondence with a girlhood friend who remained amid the disruptions and violence of war, the American Revolution takes on a new and personal urgency in this compelling and engaging novel.

The American Revolution Reaches the Gulf Coast Gabriel is a simple sailor, doing the bidding of his Captain and King, when he is swept up in a storm that changes his life in ways that he could never have anticipated. Carlotta yearns for her lost home, and is searching for her lost husband, but both remain elusive in a world that has been turned upside-down by forces far outside of her control. When the storm that is Governor Bernardo de Galvez breaks over them both, neither will ever be the same -- and nor will their world."

George is a simple farmboy, more interested in sneaking a break than in the intrigues of the Revolution. Even after the British come to town in a blaze of cannonfire, he stays out of it... until Louise crosses his path, and draws him into her mysterious world.

When that world falls into shadow, the results will make history-and turn Georges life completely upside-down.