Books in Child's story of the Book of Mormon series

Based on a true story, this first of a trilogy of Civil War novels chronicles the fateful events of 1861 in western Virginia, as a young man learns to cope with his world turned upside down by war. It is April of 1861. The shocking events at Fort Sumter are having devastating effects on Alexander Swaney, living on his family farm in Pennsylvania just a few miles north of the border with western Virginia. He watches as Virginia fights its own civil war, as the disaffected western counties, long neglected by Richmond, attempt to secede from the rest of the state. Their political struggle produces the first land conflicts of the larger War of the Rebellion, involving the future military giants George McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee fighting in the rugged mountains of western Virginia, soon to be a new state. As events sweep Alexander along in their path, he struggles to maintain some control over his destiny. Should he volunteer to join the Union army and fight to preserve the and he loves, but leave behind the girl he hopes to marry, as well as his family, at the mercy of marauders and bushwhackers? Adding to Alexander’s confusion is the fact that Sophia isn’t sure she’s ready to marry him, and a rival for her affections is on the scene in the form of his cousin Tip, a rake who has had his eye on Sophia. Fortunately, Alexander has a close friend in Harry Hagans, a young pastor who also feels the call to arms from his desire to bring an end to slavery. As the storms of war bear down on them, Harry and Alexander share a convoluted journey, ultimately arriving at their military home, the 1st Regiment of Loyal Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, later to become the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. Along the way, their friendship is threatened when Harry reveals a dark secret that shakes Alexander’s trust. A detailed glimpse into a portion of Civil War history largely unknown, Storm Coming is a luminous story of a young man’s coming of age and the birth of a new state out of the storms of war.

What happens when a prophecy goes wrong? The fabled Storm Child, bearer of the white magic and most recent in the line of lost wizard kings, is not quite what everyone was expecting. For one thing she’s a girl. And girls can’t be wizards. Can they? And just what is the Keystone, which is rumoured to hold unimaginable power? Farmer's daughter, Jo Hooper, sets off to the City of Chairnin hoping to find the answers to all these questions and more. She faces peril in the form of the tyrannical Denney, Lord-Protector of Chairnin and his dangerous right hand man, the High Priest of Ishania. They will stop at nothing to gain total control of Chairnin and the immense power of the Keystone. The trouble is...no one knows where it is. Struggling to come to terms with her own special gifts, Jo soon finds herself on a quest to hunt down this magical tool. She has the help of some new friends - a Seer, two young wizards and an exiled High Priestess, to name but a few. What roles they play become more apparent the closer Jo gets to the Keystone - and the closer the realm gets to the battle for Chairnin that will decide the fate of them all.