John Jakes

At the height of California's Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some 30 years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of wealth....

From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the dramatic conclusion to the North and South saga....

Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point....

As Gideon Kent’s health deteriorates, he fears for the future of his family....

Amanda Kent, daughter of Gilbert Kent and Harriet Lebow, is one of the few women to escape the massacre at the Battle of the Alamo....

Set against the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to our fledgling nation, this novel of romance and adventure introduces Phillipe Charboneau....

This addictive John Jakes adventure blends the Kents’ ruthless push for an empire with murderous betrayal and the Civil War’s life-altering culmination....

A patriot soldier in the ragtag Continental army, Philip Kent defies the rule of the British crown, fighting for the future of his adopted American homeland and the future of his wife and newborn son....

The end of the colonies' fight for independence ushers in a fresh and even more glorious struggle to build the new nation. It is an epoch ripe with the energy of a country in its springtime....

The Main and Hazard families clash on and off the Civil War’s battlefields as they grapple with the violent realities of a divided nation....

When Jephtha Kent leaves his family to go north, the Kents come under the influence of Louis, the most opportunistic son....

In a flourishing post-Civil War America, the Kent family seizes good fortune again - until all is suddenly threatened by one woman’s return....