Life is comfortable for Shelby Kichline who's about to take her dream job when she receives an unexpected call to serve in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) in Korea. She realizes this is her time after enjoying the blessings of generations of family members who've assisted in every American war.

Easton and its favorite son Colonel Peter Kichline have reason to rejoice—the Revolutionary War is finally over! Against all possible odds, General Washington's troops have prevailed against the world's mightiest military. Peter believes the time has come to win the peace, but when a former villager, married to a missing British officer, wants to come home, the townspeople don't exactly roll out the welcome mat.

Will They Hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant?”

Peter Kichline and Erin Miles Bassett are assessing their lives. Peter's dearly-loved family is growing, and he desires to spend as much time as he can with them. As he faces additional avenues to more service, however, he feels a responsibility to help the new country get off to a strong start. It's no good to begin an endeavor if one isn't going to see it through, even at great personal expense.

2019 Historical Novel of the Year

What happens when you do everything right, but life turns out all wrong? Erin Miles and Peter Kichline have made critical decisions impacting not only themselves but their families and community. They were careful. Deliberate. And still the outcome isn’t favorable. Revolution has come to Northampton County, igniting patriots with the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Others are aflame with indignation—breaking away from Great Britain is sheer madness! Moravians and Mennonites want to avoid armed conflict at all costs. Peter is accused of dragging his heels and accepting a bribe to put the brakes on the patriots, tarnishing his sterling reputation.

Peter Kichline and Erin Miles are trying to make sense of life after losing their spouses. As Sheriff of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, he’s on the trail of an elusive thief, finding that challenge much easier to deal with than running a household. A few Easton ladies are more than a little willing to help— which poses its own challenges.

Who are you when things that define you suddenly change? That’s what Peter Kichline and Erin Miles are trying to figure out when the ground shifts beneath them. Battle-weary Revolutionary War hero Kichline and his remaining troops have returned to Easton mending from combat and captivity, but the town is in turmoil. Meanwhile back to the future, Dr. Miles is settling into her new life after moving to Easton with her son. Yet something is not right. The world they once knew and cherished has changed. What they counted on to define themselves and their purpose in life is gone, and they set out to discover, “Who am I now?”

Erin Miles has reached a personal and professional milestone—she’s “Doctor Miles” at last! Expecting teaching offers to fill her inbox, she’s soon trolling through The Chronicle of Higher Education for a position, any position. Somehow, though, what few jobs there are would take the recent widow away from her family and friends. As she considers what to do next, she’s thrust into the role of caregiver when her parents both face health emergencies. Her real passion lies with researching her Easton-based ancestry, especially her intriguing six times great-grandfather, Sheriff Peter Kichline. Just when she thinks no doors will open to teach, she’s faced with some unusual offers, a promising romance with an Easton historian, and decisions that will impact her young son and family.

Great Events in American History provides dynamic unforgettable accounts relating God’s activity in some of the most critical events in our nation’s past.

From the Colonial Period to the 1990s. Great Letters in American History communicates on an intimate level how God’s hand has been evident throughout all periods of our country’s history. Based on the premise that people are essentially the same in all times, these letters become relevant to the lives of Christians today, showing that in times past the God who is in control of all things worked through both believers and nonbelievers and continues to do so today.

A Selection of Events from the 15th and 20th Centuries

The black “Moses” of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman helped free over three hundred slaves. A Women of Faith biography.

2019 2nd Place Historical Novel of the Year

1968 was a tough year for our country: The Tet offensive. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Race riots. Anti-war demonstrations. Violence at the Democratic National Convention.  College campuses in turmoil. Asbury College, a small college in Kentucky, was in turmoil, too, of a spiritual nature. Bickering and ill-will had supplanted Christian love and brotherhood.. . Little did we know . . .the Spirit of God would take over a simple chapel and ignite a spiritual revival of extraordinary magnitude.

While covering the Philadelphia Phillies for a weekly newspaper, sixteen-year-old Heather Reed investigates some suspicious events seemingly connected to the team’s new pitcher.

In 1949, film star Ingrid Bergman fled to Europe following a public outcry and her denunciation by the U.S. Senate. The charge? She had an adulterous affair with director Roberto Rossellini resulting in a pregnancy, actions for which one senator called her "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil." Would any star flee the country over so minor an offense today?

Princess Diana, John Ritter, Saddam Hussein, Mother Teresa, Chris Farley… Does it seem reasonable to guess where each of these people ended up after they died? While it is comforting to suppose that everyone who’s “good” goes to a better place when they die, and everyone who’s “bad” doesn’t, on what is that hope based?