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The Seekers
by John Jakes
Book 3 in the The Kent Family Chronicles series.
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Abraham Kent returns from frontier fighting unable to accept the secure Boston life expected of Philip Kent’s son. Determined to establish an identity outside the family business, he and his young wife join settlers moving west, where land promises independence but exposes them to isolation, violence and economic uncertainty.
The novel carries the Kent family through the early republic and the War of 1812 as competing generations argue over risk, duty and the meaning of national expansion. Abraham’s search for freedom reveals the cost of settlement to families who leave established communities and to Indigenous peoples whose lands are treated as available for American occupation.
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