Discord and Light: A Connecticut Colony Novel

It is the mid-eighteenth century and the new world colonies are growing quickly. Opportunities abound for changing social status, wealth, religious freedom, learning, exploring, and making new discoveries. It is a time of richness and plenty, but discord abounds.John Ainsworth, born into a wealthy mercantile family in Boston, an only son and gentleman. Ainsworth was not only a recent college graduate, but a surveyor and budding scientist. He had decided to leave everything behind for a new life in a colony that had spawned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Ainsworth’s life collides with shifts in religious beliefs brought about by the Enlightenment. The discord is strong among the colonists, many of whom have exciting and challenging beliefs influencing religion and the newly emerging Republic. He fell in love, discovered a rich vein of ore, contracted a deadly disease and, although disfigured, he survived to begin a new life. Read more