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The Colonial Chronicles is a series of American Colonial historical fiction, offering a panorama of characters and events chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Spanning a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony, and concludes shortly after the founding of the Georgia Colony in 1732. Part Six addresses the spreading colonial world as England remains embroiled its civil wars after the regicide of King Charles I. Increasingly, the colonies become obvious sources of much-needed funds for the English treasury, and new laws damage international shipping and trade, forcing the colonies to amend their trading practices. Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector, ultimately ruling without a Parliament after subjugating Scotland and spreading ethnic cleansing in Ireland. Meanwhile, the First Anglo-Dutch War disrupts harmony between the English and Dutch colonies in North America. While Peter Stuyvesant subdues the only Swedish colony in the New World, the Plascomb and Voorsten families continue to expand their business empires. Intercolonial differences rupture as Quakers come to North America seeking their religious freedom, resulting in increasing levels of legal and religious intolerance in numerous colonies. Meanwhile, the second generation of New England settlers reject previously-held, central, Puritan values as the first generation begins passing into eternity.

The Colonial Chronicles is an epic series of American historical fiction offering a panorama of characters and events of the American Colonial Period chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Spanning a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony, and concludes shortly after the establishment of the Georgia Colony in 1732. Part Five opens after the Antimonian Controversy involving Ann Hutchinson. Roger Williams seeks a charter unifying all Rhode Island colonies into a single colony, but meets with resistance from William Coddington. New laws are codified throughout the colonies as the first generation of New England Puritans is met with resistance by the second generation's rejection of established Puritan values. The English Civil War exerts a toll on the colonies as Maryland is overtaken by Parliamentarian revolutionists, forcing Governor Calvert to flee to Virginia, where Governor William Berkeley assists him in reclaiming his colony. As the English Civil War hurtles forward to regicide, colonial supply shipments dwindle, forcing colonies to reinvent trading. Peter Stuyvesant forces his will on New Netherlands, while the Plascomb and Voorsten families enlarge their successful business empires, and other colonial families are continually faced with new horizons and newer hurdles.

Failure is expected when a group of eight, mixed-education level, middle and high school students, including a transgender girl and the school's most trouble-making special education student, are voted by their peers to build the school's Christmas float over a three-day period following their school's holiday pep rally before Christmas Break. The town's big Christmas Parade is only four days away, and time is short. The float's theme is diversity, and the students elected to build the float are as diverse as their ideas in construction and design. A surprise visit by Santa's representatives finds the group flying to the North Pole in a magical flying truck, meeting Santa, and helping him educate new elves as the big deadline approaches. Lessons in leadership, diversity, inclusion, and learning to reject negative comments help the team achieve their goal despite unexpected setbacks.

The Colonial Chronicles is an epic multi-series set of American historical novels offering a panorama of characters and events of the Colonial Period chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Across a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony in 1590, and concludes shortly after the establishment of the Georgia Colony in 1732. Diverse characters drive the triumphs and tragedies of the historical narrative by folding into, blending with, and actively participating in the decisions and actions leading to each colony's beginning, as well as larger world events, including global travel and meeting historically iconic people, finding that no history occurs in a vacuum because all societies are dynamic. Part One begins in 1590 when the unexplainable loss of Roanoke Colony must be presented to Queen Elizabeth I upon the drive for English colonization in the New World, and extends to 1617, following the death of Pocahontas and the successful tobacco trade started in the struggling settlement of Puritan-governed Jamestown, Virginia.

The Colonial Chronicles is an epic multi-series set of American historical novels offering a panorama of characters and events of the Colonial Period chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Across a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony, and concludes after the establishment of Georgia in 1732. Part Two begins in 1618 as Catholic and Protestant forces set strategic sights on European power at the start of the Thirty Years War. The Mayflower sails, establishing Plymouth Colony in 1620, and English colonization in North America grows, while Puritan political power in the English Parliament strengthens. Also, royal authority in England initiates renewed attacks on religious practices outside the Anglican Church under King Charles I, leading to increased Puritan emigration. The Plascomb Family widens its hold on Virginia land and tobacco markets after the first Indian War in 1622, and Plymouth Colony fails to recognize its brutal treatment of others beyond their wall who think differently than themselves in 1628. Diverse characters drive the narrative by folding into, blending with, and actively participating in the events, decisions, and actions resulting in each new colony's beginning, as well as larger world events, including global travel and meeting historically iconic people, finding that no history occurs in a vacuum because all societies are dynamic.

The Colonial Chronicles is an epic multi-series set of American historical novels offering a panorama of characters and events of the Colonial Period chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Across a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony, and concludes after the establishment of Georgia in 1732. Part Three begins in 1628 after militia members of the Plymouth Colony launch an attack on the Merrymount Colony, seeking to erase it from the map because it refuses to exist within the strict limits of Puritan church law. English Puritan colonization in North America grows as the Crown doubles-down on religious persecutions under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. Simultaneously, while colonization expands in New England in the Great Migration, the religious freedom the Puritans seek for themselves is threatened by newcomers with differing ideas relating to both religion and government, moving directly against the established Puritan theocracy started in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Diverse characters drive the narrative by folding into, blending with, and actively participating in the events, decisions, and actions resulting in each new colony's beginning, as well as larger world events, including global travel and meeting historically iconic people, finding that no history occurs in a vacuum because all societies are dynamic and, therein, change is not a variable, but a constant.

When seasoned travel writer, Grant Markham, and his young, black intern, Ashanti Moore, are assigned to travel to Charleston, S.C., to cover the annual Spoleto Festival, they arrive several days early to prepare, and are swiftly caught-up in the daily lives of a diverse group of Lowcountry locals. In addition to an attorney who assumes multiple hats, his jazz-singer girlfriend, a celebrity drag-queen and her white lover, who works on cars, yet holds a psychology doctorate, and an enigmatic employee who works for the attorney, as well as performing in shows at The Singularity, a local gay club, they also meet a woman planning to erect a Gullah Museum on her Sea Island property, as well as her felon-turned-businessman son, with whom Ms. Moore becomes romantically involved. Lessons in diversity, trust, and understanding others' help the group bond to protect their attorney friend from a vengeful US attorney and his scheming paralegal seeking to indict the attorney on dubious allegations.

Charlie Kerry and his friend, Tarvis Jones, are men who have experienced significant losses in their lives. Charlie lost his marriage, Virginia estate, and contact with his three daughters upon entering federal prison for ten years. Tarvis lost his wife and son to sickness and war. When the two decide to embark upon an impressive, six-state, fishing trip, traveling across the country on Tarvis' renovated mini-bus, they experience a series of characters and events that become life-altering, personally enriching, and life-affirming. Meanwhile, Charlie's daughters begin a nationwide search for him when one daughter sees him on a national, morning, news show. Fate also plays a role in this journey of personal renewal and redemption.

Five married couples and two singles, one male, the other female, join together for a one-week cruise of the Greek Islands aboard a 120-foot private super yacht. Arriving like strangers on an elevator, the twelve guests become increasingly close as human communication and personal revelations about their diverse lives reveal the private struggles common to the human experience. A wise Greek woman, part-time midwife and part-time muse, helps her guests reveal the innermost feelings and insecurities they harbor as they motor from one island to another. Friendships are formed, yet life's struggle, like fate, continually intervene in daily lives.