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The Adelsverein Trilogy by Celia Hayes (Books 1-3)
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Overview: Celia Hayes aka, Julia Hayden, owner of Watercress Press having responsibilities for marketing, editing, website design, and client liaison. She served for twenty years in the US Air Force as a radio/television broadcast technician and manager, and has contributed to a number of military, literary review, current affairs, and general interest websites and blogs.
She is the author of eight historical novels set on the western frontier under the penname of Celia Hayes. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Southern California at Northridge.
Currently lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Genre: Historical Fiction



Book 1 - The Gathering
Adelsverein — a generational saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile Texas frontier.
They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, immigrants under the auspices of the Mainzer Adelsverein - the so-called Society of Noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen.
Among those recruited for the transatlantic journey are an extended family who will survive and endure, making their mark in Texas, their new land. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his daughters and sons: Magda - passionate and courageous, is courted in Texas by Texas Ranger Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi Richter, an otherwise stolid and practical farmer lured by the promise of adventure and the chance to better himself, for the Adelsverein tempts him with the promise of farming more land than could ever be possible for the youngest son of a poor farmer. Magda and Liesel's brothers - the bold scapegrace Friedrich and shy Johann are as close as twins can be - they think of the transatlantic journey by sailing ship as the most wonderful adventure ever. But at the end of it all, they are set ashore at a desolate camp on the Texas Gulf Coast, faced with a long trek to their new home in the Texas Hill Country - an unsettled and dangerous frontier, menaced by hostile Comanche war parties.
Will the Adelsverein representatives be able to make peace, as they build new homes and settlements? What will an immigrant German family make of their new home in Texas?
Adelsverein: The Gathering - It's about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.

Book 2 - The Sowing
Volume 2 of the Adelsverein Trilogy, following the fortunes of German settlers who came to Texas seeking land and political freedom in the 19th century through the auspices of the Mainzer Adelsverein - a consortium of German nobles who formed a corporation and took up a land grant in the Republic of Texas.
In the fifteen years which have passed since "Vati" Steinmetz and his children came from Germany to Texas, they have prospered. His older daughter Magda has married former Texas Ranger Carl Becker, born him children and helped him build a happy life as a cattle rancher in the beautiful valley of the Guadalupe River. Vati's son-in-law Hansi Richter prospers as a farmer, and his son Johann has returned from years of study in Germany to become a doctor. But his beautiful adopted daughter Rosalie is in love ... with a man who intends to serve in the Confederate Army! Texas has voted for secession and to join with the Confederacy. The German settlers in the Texas Hill Country are opposed to slavery, and to secession; what will happen to them now that they will be seen as enemies in their new homeland?
Ideals, friendship and cruel circumstance clash with the coming of civil war to the Hill Country, bringing Carl Becker and Hansi Richter into mortal danger from the 'hanging band' - a pro-Confederate lynch mob, while Johann and his twin brother Friedrich are drawn into fighting on opposite sides; Johann with the Union Army, Friedrich with the Frontier Regiment.
Adelsverein: The Sowing continues the epic story of how one family became American, through the brutal tragedy of the Civil War!.

Book 3 - The Harvesting
Adelsverein: The Harvesting brings the saga of the Becker and Richter families in the Texas Hill Country to a triumphant conclusion in this final volume of the Adelsverein Trilogy.
The Civil War is over and the soldiers return home, to take up the old lives ... if they can. The end of the Civil War has left Texas and the South broken and defeated. Too many young men have died in the fighting, families have been destroyed, their homes left wrecked and desolate. But there is hope in the ashes. Hansi Richter has come home determined to build a mercantile empire, with the aid of his strong-minded daughter Anna, and his widowed sister-in-law, Magda Becker. Magda's son Dolph wishes to reclaim the family ranch, confiscated during the war, while his cousin Peter Vining only wishes to forget his service in the Confederate Army, which left him an amputee, and the only survivor of four brothers. Do they have the strength, the heart, and the courage to begin building their lives again ... and to dare to venture the first steps on a new path?
A path of silver and gold, a bold new adventure into the wilderness - taking Texas longhorn cattle on the long trail drive north to the new transcontinental railroad may lead to success. But the the malice of an old enemy still haunts Dolph Becker and his family; the man who murdered their father during the war is still alive, and even more driven to seek revenge. The constant terror of raids by Comanche Indians may yet destroy Hansi Richter's family, the sanity of his wife ... and the future of the beautiful Rosalie, newly-wed to the love of her life.
Adelsverein: The Harvesting - It's the story of a family, building a life, a future ... and building America.

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