Bregdan Chronicles Books in Order

In the fall of 1873, economic disaster and social unrest shake the country, just as Abby, Frances, Felicia, Hobbs, Minnie, and others step into new ventures. From Boston streets to Virginia fields, hard times become an unexpected gateway to fresh starts and fragile new hope.

As Reconstruction enters another turbulent year, Carrie, Janie, and their friends are pulled into fresh battles over racial violence, political unrest, and economic upheaval. Each must decide what it really means to keep moving toward freedom—for themselves and for the people they love.

A new horse plague sweeps the country just as political tensions spike, forcing Carrie, Janie, and their circle to face loss, fear, and public hatred. When a shocking journey exposes buried truths, they must find the courage to stand for justice without losing their own hearts.

In 1872, the discovery of a thief sends Carrie and Anthony down an unexpected path, while Felicia, Rose, Moses, and others are stretched by new responsibilities and heartbreaks. As weddings, adoptions, and hard choices reshape their lives, they learn that joy is a road, not a destination.

Chaos ripples across America as elections turn violent, scandals erupt, and illness stalks the plantation. Carrie, Janie, Florence, Moses, Rose, and their friends race to save lives and tell hard truths, clinging to the fragile hope that each new dawn can bring renewal.

As 1870 closes, Carrie’s plans for a new medical practice in Richmond collide with personal tragedy, while Rose, Moses, and others face fresh violence and loss on the plantation. Separated families, simmering anger, and unexpected grace force everyone to look for light in gathering dark clouds.

In 1871, the Bregdan Medical Clinic confronts a crisis that pushes Carrie, Janie, and Elizabeth to make almost unthinkable choices. From Paris to New York to rural Virginia, Florence, Rose, Marietta, and Abby are drawn into new dangers that demand a deeper, harder kind of courage.

Part memoir and part origin story, this book traces Ginny Dye’s winding path to becoming a writer and creating the *Bregdan Chronicles*. From childhood prejudice to family secrets and illness, she shows how a lifetime of twists shaped the stories readers now love.

Set in 1870, this volume finds Carrie and Abby drawn into violent struggles for control of Richmond, while Rose and Moses savor a brief calm on the plantation. Matthew confronts rising Klan terror in North Carolina, and Jeremy’s new life in Philadelphia proves more dangerous than he hoped.

Reconstruction grinds on as Carrie steps into a new season of love and responsibility, even as she is called away from the plantation to pursue her calling. Meanwhile Frances uncovers hidden horrors facing vulnerable children, and Rose, Moses, Jeremy, and others discover that their futures are widening in unexpected ways.

When life refuses to follow a safe script, Carrie, Janie, and Matthew embark on an unexpected journey that pulls them far from home. At the same time, Moses and Rose face their long‑hoped‑for chance at college, and Jeremy and Marietta weigh leaving Richmond behind for a different future.

America moves deeper into Reconstruction as Carrie travels to Philadelphia to keep a promise and stumbles into a world she never expected. Moses and Rose navigate college and calling, Jeremy and Marietta confront a life‑changing surprise, and Matthew and Janie juggle new parenthood with fresh turmoil.

Violence and hatred flare as the country struggles to accept millions of newly freed people. Carrie and Robert see a long‑cherished dream realized but pay a steep emotional price, while Rose’s school is attacked, Abby throws herself into the fight for women’s suffrage, and no one can safely stand still.

In the uneasy early days of Reconstruction, Carrie battles a cholera outbreak in Philadelphia and uncovers a staggering secret about her own heritage. Back in the South, Robert, Rose, Moses, Janie, Jeremy, and Marietta all face turning points that show how quickly the winds of change can shift.

Carrie and Janie pursue their Philadelphia dreams just as cholera returns, threatening everything they have built. Robert searches for quiet on the plantation, Moses and Rose are thrust into leadership during rising racial violence, and Jeremy discovers that love and heritage can collide in painful ways.

The Civil War is over, but the struggle to build a just peace has only begun. As the nation reels from Lincoln’s assassination, Carrie fights to pull Robert out of despair, Rose and Moses chase new opportunities, and others confront tragedy, betrayal, and unexpected grace in the first hard year of Reconstruction.

As the final, brutal year of the Civil War unfolds, Carrie clings to a fragile promise while the world she knows collapses. On battlefields, in contraband camps, in Washington, and on the plantations, Moses, Rose, Abby, Robert, and others face losses that will change them forever.

War tears deeper into the country as Carrie and Robert are separated once again. Carrie becomes a target for men determined to stop her from treating Black patients, Aunt Abby is swept into northern riots, and Rose and Moses risk everything for new life and new freedom.

Richmond turns into a battlefield as Carrie pours herself into nursing at a Confederate hospital, even while the man she loves disappears in the chaos of war. In the North, Rose and Moses taste freedom but are pulled into dangerous work that could cost them everything.

With the Civil War fully underway, Carrie juggles running the plantation, helping enslaved people seek freedom, and loving a man whose beliefs about slavery clash with her own. As battles creep closer to Richmond, she must decide where her loyalty and her faith truly lie.

In 1860 Virginia, plantation daughter Carrie Cromwell begins to question everything she has been taught about slavery and faith. As rumors of war build and the Underground Railroad tugs at her conscience, she must choose between her heritage and the truth she can no longer ignore.