(Blood of the Crossing)
By Steven Phillips
Publisher: Steven Phillips
Print Length: 354 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Some journeys begin with a dream. Rhys ap Hywel's begins with a lock.
Wales, 1608. When Rhys is driven from his family's cottage and stripped of the land and flock that sustained them, Virginia offers one last hope-a new beginning across the sea.
Margaret "Meg" Hughes is a widow determined that no man will decide her future-or Elin's. On the dangerous voyage to Jamestown, her path collides with Rhys's. Bound first by necessity and then by a fierce partnership, they set out to build a home on the contested banks of the James River.
But in a colony ruled by hunger, debt, and fragile claims, every acre carries a price. As colonial expansion collides with Indigenous lives, a name written in a ledger can mean the difference between belonging and disappearance. And with the reckoning of 1622 drawing near, everything Rhys and Meg have fought to build may be swept away.
The Crossing is Book One of Blood of the Crossing-a sweeping historical saga of loss, courage, love, survival, and the price of claiming a life of your own.
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Steven Phillips
Steven Phillips is the author of the Blood of the Crossing saga, a historical fiction series set across seventeenth-century Wales, the Atlantic, and colonial Virginia. His writing is rooted in years of genealogical research into Welsh and early American migration, and in a deep fascination with the ordinary people whose lives shaped history from below.
Before writing fiction, Steven spent decades tracing family lines through parish registers, court records, ship manifests, and land grants — the same documents that appear, transformed, in the world of Rhys and Meg. That research gave him not only a detailed picture of the period, but a profound respect for the men and women who crossed oceans with almost nothing and built lives in a world that offered them very little.
The Crossing, Book One of the Blood of the Crossing saga, is his debut novel. He is currently at work on Book Two.
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