The Books
Our River Jordan
Genres
Historical Fiction | Christian - Inspirational Fiction | Family Saga | Southern Fiction | Adventure | Coming-of-Age
Discover the amazing story of two very different families as you follow them back in time. At the end of the Civil War, on the Bellewood plantation, the family of an anti-slavery preacher forms a bond with a family that was previously enslaved there. The two families must decide where their loyalties lie, and in the process, they discover something powerful enough to keep their families together for generations.
Some secrets are buried for a reason.
Others are meant to be found. After a fight on the school bus, fourteen-year-old John Harrison finds himself caught in a generational feud between three families. This leads him to discover a hidden journal that uncovers a family mystery, guiding him deep into the Alabama swamp. What he finds there will answer all the unasked questions about his family’s past and the price his ancestors paid for love and friendship. During our nation’s darkest days, violence lived in chains, and whips never left the master's hands.
This is the history of "Our River Jordan". Freedom from slavery. Freedom from sin. Freedom from the real prejudice behind the mask. In these waters, enemies become brothers, the lost find salvation, and ordinary people discover grace they never knew existed. At the end of the Civil War, two boys, one White, one Black, one free, one enslaved, built an unbreakable bond and fought for freedom at a creek that would become sacred ground. But in a place where showing mercy can get you killed and the wrong choice destroys everyone you care about, freedom comes with a price. A fight that pushes people to the extreme. Would they come out of this creek alive? Can love survive when hate runs deeper than blood?