Adelsverein
Subtitle: Book Two - The Sowing
Publisher: Booklocker - Strider Nolan Publishing
Published: December 2008
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781932045222
First sentence: “When I came to think back on that matter,” said Magda Vogel Becker to her daughter and her great-grandchildren, many years later, “I realized that there had been omens. Your father and I did not see such at the time. All we knew on that morning in summer was John Hunter, on a wearied horse, riding up from the river.”
Description: The storms of war came upon them - Loyal to the Union, adamant in their belief that slavery was wrong - Could they survive a brutal war in the dark heart of the Confederacy?

“Vati” Steinmetz and his children have prospered since they arrived in America.  His oldest daughter Magda has married Carl Becker,  born him children and helped him build a happy life as a rancher and family man. Vati’s son-in-law Hansi Richter has become a successful farmer and his son Johann has returned from Germany  after years of studying to  become a doctor.  But  ideals, friendship and cruel circumstance collide as the Civil War comes to the Hill Country. 

Carl and Hansi  face mortal danger from the “hanging band”,  a pro-Confederate  lynch mob seeking to permanently silence the voices of Union sympathizers. Vati’s beautiful adopted daughter Rosalie is in love with a man who intends to serve in the Confederate Army! Meanwhile Johann and his twin brother  Friedrich are drawn to serve in the war— but on opposite sides!

Adelsverein: The Sowing continues the epic story of how one family of German immigrants  became American, through the wrenching tragedy of the Civil War!