The Colonists (American Family Portraits #2)
by By Cavanaugh, Jack
Category: Fiction , Alternative History

In the years before America became a nation, new   generations were born to the Puritans, men and   women historians have called The Colonists    The untimely death of Benjamin Morgan,   great-grandson of Drew Morgan, has splintered his   Boston family into feuding factions. Neither eldest son   Philip, headstrong daughter Priscilla, nor rebellious   young Jared seems to care for each other let alone   their father's faith in God. And Constance, Benjamin's   widow, is so overcome with loneliness that she can do   little to restore harmony. It appears that Drew's dream   of a strong Christian heritage, passing without fail from   one generation of Morgans to the next, is in   jeopardy.    When Daniel Cole, an unethical merchant, forces each   of the three children as well as their mother to points of   crisis and decision, God's Spirit sweeps through the   colonies in a dramatic revival. At last, Philip and his   siblings see the error of their divisiveness. But can their   newfound faith and unity withstand the unscrupulous   Cole, who has manipulated Constance into marriage   and who will stop at nothing to destroy a now-thriving   Morgan family business?    From the cobbled streets of Boston to a Narragansett   Indian village to the Atlantic's high seas, follow life in   colonial New England through the adventures of one of   America's first families of faith.