The Grand Encampment Saga series:
Mountain Time
Will God answer a hundred year old prayer?
Mail order bride Andriette Jameson arrives in Encampment, Wyoming in 1902 during a massive copper boom. Set against this historic moment in history, Andriette faces each day with prayer and determination to make a life that honors God.
Life in the 21st century has dumped trouble on Hannah Harding from every direction. The death of her father, a break up with her fiancé and a nemesis at work send her to a mountain escape. When danger arrives and she has to run for her life, Hannah learns just how far in miles and time God’s love reaches.
Peaks and Valleys
In 1894, Claire Atley’s options are slim. Young, feminine and naïve, she is ill-equipped to face the trials in her life. Frightened and alone, Claire makes her way from a dangerous and isolated farm in South Dakota to a wild saloon at the center of the gold rush in the Black Hills, When a copper frenzy begins in Wyoming, she finds herself first in a desolate town called The Grand Encampment and then at the top of the world in a brand new boomtown called Dillon. On the journey she discovers her own precious mettle and finds love and faith to help her not only survive but triumph through life’s peaks and valleys.
In this companion novel to the award-winning Mountain Time, donna coulson takes us and Claire through the fascinating history of southern Wyoming’s largest copper boom and gives us a look at one woman’s struggle for faith and forgiveness.
Changing Skies
1917. America declares war on Germany. Men from all over the country are ordered to battle with the first ever American draft lottery. The small and remote city of Encampment, Wyoming isn’t isolated enough to avoid the pressures of war and local men are called up to fight. Livery owner Jesse Atley faces his call to duty with courage and the prayer that in the end, his life and sacrifice will have worth and meaning.
Sari Webber is in a war of her own. Orphaned and severely disfigured in an accident as a child, she discovers that she is responsible for her father’s debt now that she is grown. Isolated and rejected by society, Sari battles the oppression of her fears, her debt, and the burden of her scars while America fights a global ‘war to end all wars.’
As the horror of war continues, the world is attacked by a new, relentless enemy with the onslaught of the Spanish flu pandemic. Worlds apart and armed with the faith that God is in control, Jesse and Sari fight to conquer the tyranny in their lives.
Contemporary Fiction:
The Archer’s Perspective
One action.
Three reactions.
A beautiful fall day in Wyoming’s Sierra Madre Mountains turns tragic and life-changing with the twang of a bowstring. Three people are involved that day and their responses to the challenges that follow reveal not only who they are down deep but how they see God.
Fractured Grief
Nestled in a quiet beach-side bungalow in the Virgin Islands, Gillis Drake begins to reassemble the fragments of her grieving heart and fractured life. Armed with her faith and a glint of hope, Gillis embraces St. Croix’s culture, warm water, and white sand, determined to find her way through widowhood.
Then trouble arrives.
Emmaline’s Story series:
Questioning Grace
“Why did God let that rattlesnake get me, Mama?”
“I think you are asking the wrong question. It isn’t up to us to ask God why. He’s God, and He doesn’t owe us any
explanations. His grace, His choices are perfect, Emmaline.”
World War 1 is looming. There is war in Europe and increasing tensions at home as Emmaline Monroe faces her own fears, her father’s domineering expectations, and separation from her brother, Thad. Against unending challenges, she fights first to complete her education, then to find meaning and purpose for herself as a surgical nurse in war-torn England. Through all her trials, echoes of her mother’s wisdom remind Emmaline to ask the right questions and not to spend her efforts questioning grace.
Embracing Blessings
The story continues…
Just days after the armistice ending World War 1 is signed in 1919, a telegram arrives that demands action. Leaving England, her career as a surgical nurse, and the fragments of a cracked heart behind, Emmaline Monroe returns to southern Wyoming to make peace with her dying father and her old life while also carving out a new future for herself and her six-year-old adopted daughter, Solange.
Doctor Graham Harris’ well-conceived plans after the war fall apart with one misdirected letter. Holding on to the hope that it’s not too late, Graham embarks on a journey to recapture his dreams with little thought about the cost or sacrifice it will require.
As a servant to the baron and baroness of Grey Rocks in northern England, Martin Blakely’s days had always been predictable and orderly. When he is asked to accompany the baron’s son, Graham, on a life changing, headlong race to America, Martin’s world expands into a kaleidoscope of opportunities and choices he’d never imagined.
The challenge for them all will be to learn to embrace the blessings they are offered.
In this welcome sequel to her novel Questioning Grace, author donna coulson takes us on an adventure through history and heart, exploring the changes and challenges life in Wyoming in 1919.
