- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Historical / Civil War Era
- Language:English
- Series Title:Promised Land series
- Series Number:1
- Pages:696
- eBook ISBN:9798317810115
- Hardcover ISBN:9798317810108
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Overview
Spring, 1846. At the end of a long journey, James Sullivan returns home to the mountains of Tennessee with an abandoned baby in his arms—a tiny girl found on a street in faraway Charleston. Over the objections of his mother, a woman gifted with knowledge of the future, he and his wife, Mary, take the baby into their family. In doing so, they change their lives forever.
This is the story of the Sullivans, immigrants to a promised land falling under the shadow of a looming civil war, even as James and Mary fall under the shadow of their own choices. Events are seen through the eyes of Lily Sullivan, the adopted daughter who unwittingly alters her family's destiny. As she witnesses the national conflict divide her close-knit family, she also discovers a family secret that presents an even greater threat than the war itself.
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No Refuge in Canaan is the saga of the Sullivans, a family of immigrants to Canaan, Tennessee---set before and during the Civil War. The Sullivans are not slaveholders but are nevertheless swept up into the conflict between North and South, with brothers in the family on opposite sides.
Their story is narrated by the youngest daughter, Lily. Lily is adopted into the family as a baby under mysterious circumstances, and after her arrival the family begins to experience a long series of misfortunes. Amid those family troubles, Lily comes of age, meets the love of her life when she least expects to, and fights not only to survive in the war-ravaged South, but to overcome the dark legacy of her birth.
An old-fashioned historical novel with plenty of romance and touches of fantasy, mystery, and adventure, No Refuge in Canaan explores the age-old question of fate vs. chance. Are all things simply meant to be? Or not? You decide.
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