Christmas at Carnton by Tamera Alexander

Kowtowing to a bunch of “crinolines” isn’t his idea of soldiering. As he heals, Jake is ordered to assist with a local Women’s Relief Society auction. When doctors deliver their diagnosis, Jake fears losing not only his greatest skill but his very identity. But can Aletta trust this man?Ĭaptain Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, suffered a head wound at the Battle of Chickamauga.

Then a chance meeting with a wounded soldier offers another opportunity-and friendship. With the bank threatening to evict them, she discovers an advertisement for the Women’s Relief Society auction and applies for a position-only to discover it’s been filled. Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life together for herself and her six-year-old son. How can she set out alone across a land so divided by war and hatred to honor her pledge? Even more, does she dare accept Captain Jones's offer to accompany her? As he coalesces at Carnton, romance has blossomed between him and Lizzie-a woman already betrothed to a man she does not love.įrom the pages of history and the personal accounts of those who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves the real-life love letters between Captain Roland Ward Jones and Elizabeth Clouston into a story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of war.“This tender love story between two wounded people whom God brings together for healing is a book readers will enjoy anytime-but especially at Christmas!” - Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the WindĪmid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas-and sacrificial love. And, as she soon discovers, there's no record of him ever having enlisted. When a fourteen-year-old soldier dies in Lizzie's arms that night, the boy's final words, whispered with urgency, demand that Lizzie deliver them to their intended recipient. True to her word, Lizzie speaks on his behalf and saves not only the captain's leg but also his life. He compels Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Clouston-governess to the McGavock family at the Carnton mansion-to intervene should the surgeon decide to amputate. But a life without his leg, he can't abide. A decorated Mississippi sharpshooter, Jones has a vision on the battlefield and, despite the severity of his wounds, believes his life will be spared. On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Confederacy and nearly kills Captain Roland Ward Jones. History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length installment of Tamera Alexander's new series, The Carnton Novels.

Christmas at Carnton by Tamera Alexander