The fifth in a series of captivating novels for YA and adult readers about the settlement of North America by immigrants from Germany and the British Isles, Brave Beginnings focuses on the Wheeler and Carruthers families of Scotland, Ireland, and England. Each of these families has their own story—sometimes heartbreaking, often joyous—and when they meet as settlers making their way in a new land, those stories burst with a new resonance, one that many Americans, even those from other parts of the world, will relate to. With Brave Beginnings, author and genealogist Claudia Barnard Coffey has crafted a layered story that brings these ancestors to life, allowing them to tell their own stories to this next generation of readers.