Carnton Novels

by Tamera Alexander 3 books in this series

The Carnton novels place fictional and real lives around the historic McGavock home in Franklin, Tennessee, before, during and after the Battle of Franklin. A wartime relief effort, Carnton’s conversion into a Confederate field hospital and the damaged society of Reconstruction provide the sequence with its historical structure.

The books confront sacrifice, divided loyalty, slavery’s legacy and the physical consequences of war while developing romances grounded in Christian redemption. The novella introduces the setting; the numbered novels then move from the battle itself to postwar counterfeiting and the difficult search for truth in a community that has survived defeat.

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Books in this series (3 books)

0.5. Christmas at Carnton

Tamera Alexander

In 1863, widowed Aletta Prescott faces eviction while trying to support her young son during the Confederate war effort. A position connected with a Women’s Relief Society auction at Carnton offers a possible livelihood. Captain Jake Winston, a sharpshooter recovering from a head wound suffered at…

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1. With This Pledge

Tamera Alexander

4.7(1,983)

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Clouston is governess at Carnton when the Battle of Franklin turns the house into a Confederate field hospital. Assisting surgeons among hundreds of wounded men, she meets Captain Roland Ward Jones, a Mississippi sharpshooter whose injured leg may be amputated. The promises they exchange…

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2. Colors of Truth

Tamera Alexander

4.7(1,605)

In 1866, Irish immigrant Catriona O’Toole arrives in Franklin with her young sister, searching for a twin brother last reported near the Battle of Franklin. Former Union soldier Wade Cunningham is working for the newly established United States Secret Service, infiltrating a postwar counterfeiting network. When…

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