Christian Heritage: The Charleston Years — by Nancy Rue

• Oct-1997

In 1860, Austin Hutchinson's hopes are high -- he's finally going to have the friends and adventures he's only read about in books, now that he, his mother and his bratty brother are going to stay on his uncle's Charleston plantation, complete with t...

• May-1998

Though Austin has finally found his place with his cousins, especially Charlotte, and the slave boy Henry James, he'll never feel at home amongst slave owners and slave laws. When he tries to make things the way he thinks they should be, Austin is mo...

• May-1998

Austin and his family are headed for their summer home, high in the mountains of North Carolina, but an "accident" in their stagecoach is only the first of their troubles. As former friends become bitter enemies, Austin has to learn what's truly valu...

• Jun-1998

Fall has Austin anticipating the harvest festivities, but fun and games are in short supply as tension on the plantation mounts in the family. Austin is not the only one who feels trapped by lies and secrets, and not the only one who tries to escape ...

• Sep-1998

The South is poised to secede from the nation, and as an abolitionist, Austin isn't safe from the anger of slave owners, even if he is a child. With the family in Charleston for the holidays, Austin is right in the thick of an angry rising storm -- a...

• Aug-1998

The war that rips a nation apart begins, and Austin's family must get out of Charleston before it's too late. But the delay of battle may be just the time Austin needs to realize freedom for the people he's come to love -- even though it means goodby...