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The old storytellers would have said that courage does not arrive with trumpets. It comes quieter than that: with footsteps in deep snow; with a hand reaching to help when all instinct says withdraw.

And so Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope was born.
Courage is not the absence of fear—it is the decision to face it.

Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope

Ready to pre-order from Amazon | Publication: June 17

There has always been a lion in our stories.

Not the roaring beast crowned in gold, but the unseen one—the one that stirs in the chest when the world narrows, when loss presses close, when the road ahead fractures into uncertainty. That is the lion this collection seeks.

Across fifteen stories, courage is not spectacle. It is choice.

It is a sentry in the dying light of empire.
A Saxon standing at the edge of a broken land.
A woman in plague-shadowed England refusing to yield.
A healer in Transylvania, holding fast to memory and truth.
A child, a soldier, a stranger—each standing where fear and resolve meet.

These are not legends carved in marble. They are quieter than that. Sharper, too.

Cathy Helms of  Avalon Graphics designed this gorgeous cover and our graphics and Jean Gill, Author, put the trailer and animation together. 

The Voices Within These Pages

This anthology gathers an extraordinary fellowship of historical storytellers, each lending their voice to a different century, a different trial:

• Alison Morton — The Sentry (Noricum, AD 395)
• Derek Birks — The Saxon (Southern Britain, AD 471)
• Marian L Thorpe — The Phoenix (circa AD 900)
• Judith Arnopp — Siflede (London, 1066)
• Annie Whitehead — Daisy Chain (England, 1141)
• Anna Belfrage — Stepping Between (England, 1308)
• Carolyn Hughes — Confronting Plague (England, 1361)
• Patricia Furstenberg — Kate’s Letter (Transylvania, 1478)
• Amy Maroney — The Portrait’s Secret (Paris, 1536)
• Jean Gill — Legacy (England, 1558)
• Cathie Dunn — (forthcoming)
• Helen Hollick — A Taleteller’s Tale (Caribbean, 1709)
• Elizabeth St.John — The Gate (London, 1900)
• Antoine Vanner — A Sack of Potatoes (Netherlands, 1954)
• Kathy Hollick-Bater — Grumpy Old Grandfather (Present Day)

With an introduction by lovely Lorna Fergusson.

If you’re not familiar with these authors, I reviewed some of their previous work on my blog here.

What Awaits You within the pages of COURAGE:

Within these pages, you will not find easy victories.

You will find:

• Choices made in the shadow of loss
• Love that endures where hope falters
• Quiet defiance in the face of power
• The fragile, stubborn thread of survival

You will find people—ordinary, flawed, human—who discover, in a single moment, that turning away is no longer possible.

And so they do not.

Why This Book Matters Now

History is not a distant country. It breathes in us.

The same fears. The same questions. The same fragile hope that tomorrow might yet be different.

This collection is a reminder: courage is not reserved for kings or warriors. It belongs equally to the healer, the child, the exile, the forgotten.

It belongs to anyone who chooses to stand when standing costs something.

Step into fifteen moments where everything could be lost—and something greater is found.

Because courage does not roar.

Sometimes, it simply refuses to step back.

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Pre-order COURAGE the eBook NOW.
Publication: June 17