The Morehouse Generations Book 1: Inheritance

The Morehouse Generations: Book One - The InheritanceThomas Morehouse is gone. But what he built has only begun.In seventeenth-century Connecticut, the death of Thomas Morehouse leaves his children facing a question every generation must eventually answer: What do we do with what our parents have left behind?For Samuel Morehouse, the inheritance is far greater than land, possessions, and the family mill. He inherits responsibility-for his mother Isabel, his brothers and sisters, his own growing family, and a legacy forged through sacrifice, faith, and the dangerous journey that brought the Morehouses from England to the American colonies.But the world around them is changing.As Connecticut grows from scattered settlements into an increasingly established colony, the Morehouse children begin choosing their own paths. Farms are divided. New households rise. Family members look beyond Fairfield toward Long Island and other opportunities. The generation that once followed Thomas must now learn to lead.Then the fragile security of colonial New England is shattered by King Philip's War, one of the most devastating conflicts of seventeenth-century America. Fear spreads through towns and settlements as English colonists and Native peoples are drawn into a brutal struggle over land, sovereignty, survival, and a rapidly changing world.Through war, loss, marriage, birth, migration, reconciliation, and the passing of the founding generation, Samuel gradually discovers that preserving his father's legacy does not mean keeping everything exactly as Thomas left it.Some things must change if they are to survive.And some inheritances cannot be measured in acres.Inspired by documented Morehouse genealogy and set against real events in colonial New England, The Inheritance blends family history with richly imagined historical fiction to tell the story of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.It is a story of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters-and of the nearly invisible moment when one generation realizes that the future has been placed into its hands.The first generation crossed an ocean to begin the family story. Now their children must decide where that story will go.The Inheritance is Book One of The Morehouse Generations, the continuing historical saga of a family whose descendants will follow the roads of American history for generations to come.