The Colonists
The family Bible is lost. And the spirit of the colony is dying. Is it too late to save the faith they once had?
Boston, 1727 The fiery spiritual passion the Puritans once had is dying, smothered by the desire for wealth and power. For the Morgan family—descendants of the first colonial pioneers—the sudden, brutal murder of their father casts three squabbling siblings into the turbulent waters of a fractured New England.
PHILIP — a brilliant Harvard scholar, abandons his studies and sets off into the dangerous wilderness, hoping to track down the missing Morgan family heirloom among the Narragansett Indians.
PRISCILLA — a fierce ball of red-haired determination, refuses to be confined to the traditional role of a submissive colonial woman. Left to steady the family’s failing estate, she enters a dangerous game of wit and economic survival against Daniel Cole, a ruthless merchant who will stop at nothing to possess everything the Morgans hold dear.
JARED — a carefree spirit seeking escape from the heavy shadow of his family’s expectations, finds his life dramatically upended when he is drugged and pressed into service aboard a pirate ship.
THE COLONISTS is a deeply researched, sweeping historical epic. Witness the birth of a distinctly American identity forged on a crucible of colliding cultures, dangerous greed, and a monumental spiritual awakening.
