Novels Based on Real Life Experience

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Heartfelt Historical Novels

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Heartfelt Historical Novels

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This historical novel shares the unforgettable story of a 19th-century quilter through some of the most challenging times in American history. This story is told “in her own words” through a lifetime of diary entries and a memoir she dictated to a granddaughter shortly before her death.

Hannah Applegate Benson Stone weathered many person

Hannah Applegate Benson Stone weathered many personal storms in her life yet found strength in her family, friends, and community. Orphaned very young during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and raised by a caring aunt in a small New England farming community, she grew from a frightened child to a confident woman and successful quilt pattern designer. When women had few opportunities available to them.

This fictional memoir is based on many of the author’s own life experiences and those of her family transposed to another time. These “memories” bring Hannah’s story to life. Readers will experience for themselves what it was like to grow up without any of the modern conveniences we take for granted and the excitement of discovering one’s own abilities and strengths. They will mourn and rejoice with Hannah as she loses her first love but finds new love with her second, in this timeless story of loss and renewal.

Readers who enjoyed novels by Nancy Turner: “These is My Words,” “Sarah’s Quilt,” “The Star Garden” and "Resolute"., will enjoy this one as well.

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Against her parent’s wishes, Sarah Benson leaves behind her stifling family home in New Hampshire

She boards the train heading west in 1898 with James, a man she loves but barely knows. With the idealism and naivety of youth, they leave everything behind for a life-changing adventure in the Arizona Frontier.

On the way, Sarah reveals th

Against her parent’s wishes, Sarah Benson leaves behind her stifling family home in New Hampshire

On the way, Sarah reveals that she is pregnant. When they arrive in Flagstaff, they marry. Soon a rancher offers James and Sarah work on an isolated ranch, James' dream. Sarah grows to love her independence and the wide-open skies of the west, but James’s drinking and gambling cause a rift between them. After her daughter is born, her marriage to James begins to unravel, and James becomes violent. Sarah flees to her parents but realizes that New Hampshire is no longer where she belongs.

A yearning for the west and the possibility to live free and love again takes her back to Arizona for a final confrontation with James and the chance to build a life she can embrace on her own terms.

This is the second book in a historical fiction series, Hannah’s Legacy.

Readers who enjoyed the novels of Nancy Turner, Janette Oke, Kristin Hannah and Robyn Carr, will love this story.

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Becca grew up in a family struggling to work through their grief after a tragedy. She felt invisible and alone. The one bright spot in her life was her grandmother with whom she spent her summers while growing up. It was her grandmother who taught Becca to sew and to quilt and gives her the love and nurturing she so badly needs. And it was her grandmother who left Becca her own beautiful antique treadle sewing machine. When she later attends art school, Becca begins to find herself and her “tribe”.

As she approaches her 30th birthday, Becca yearns for something more in her life. She is bored and frustrated. Her relationship with her mother, with whom she shares ownership of a high-end art and craft gallery is difficult and stressful. As if that were not enough, she is in a relationship with a man she once loved that is going nowhere. Her saving grace is her best friend, Ashlyn, and the other members of her Cambridge Creative Quilters’ bee.

Curious about what she can learn from the generations in her family that had come before her, Becca sets out on an adventure. She is especially eager to visit the Queen Ann Victorian home in a small New Hampshire town that was built by her great great grandfather, Ben Stone, in the 1890s. Becca had heard that it was now a Bed and Breakfast. The idea of learning more about the inn and her forebears intrigued her. Could they be a clue to a new direction in her life?

What Becca discovers is more than she could have ever dreamed of. With the help of old and new friends, Becca creates a new pathway forward for herself, that includes uncovering lost family secrets, a new love and a new purpose for her life, while following in the footsteps of her ancestors.

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