#1 – The Bastard
Phillipe Charboneau grows up in France as the unrecognised son of the Duke of Kentland. After his father’s death, the legitimate Kentland family denies his claim and forces him into a struggle that carries him through London and into contact with political radicals and American colonists.…
#2 – The Rebels
Philip Kent commits himself to the revolutionary cause and joins the Continental forces as conflict spreads from Massachusetts into a full war for independence. At Bunker Hill and in later campaigns, he confronts the difference between political conviction and the confusion, hunger and violence of military…
#3 – The Seekers
Abraham Kent returns from frontier fighting unable to accept the secure Boston life expected of Philip Kent’s son. Determined to establish an identity outside the family business, he and his young wife join settlers moving west, where land promises independence but exposes them to isolation, violence…
#4 – The Furies
More than two decades after The Seekers, Amanda Kent emerges from the destruction surrounding the Alamo and refuses to remain a passive survivor. The daughter of Gilbert Kent, she is determined to recover the family name and wealth, even when that ambition requires her to cross…
#5 – The Titans
Louis Kent controls the family fortune but lacks the judgement or loyalty needed to preserve it. His cousin Jephtha supports abolition, while members of the younger generation are tied to the South, making the national argument over slavery an internal family crisis before the first shots…
#6 – The Warriors
The Civil War reaches its final campaigns while the divided Kent family continues its private struggle over wealth, loyalty and control. Soldiers return wounded or morally compromised, and Jeremiah Kent becomes vulnerable to manipulation, desire and violence at a moment when the dynasty can no longer…
#7 – The Lawless
With the Civil War over, Gideon Kent attempts to honour his father’s promise to reunite a family scattered by death, estrangement and competing claims to the dynasty. Bringing his father’s widow back into the household reopens old conflicts and creates new dangers for relatives who hoped…
#8 – The Americans
In the final volume, Gideon Kent’s failing health leaves the future of the family uncertain and its once-formidable dynasty in ruins. Young Will inherits the task of reconnecting relatives whose lives now extend from eastern cities and tenements to western ranches and new commercial enterprises. The…