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A Christian Historical Novel
Bethel chronicles the lives of Plantation owner, Samuel Hebron, his wife and six children from 1861-1865. As each member of the Family is drawn into the Civil War, humor, suspense, romance, and strong family ties will hold readers spell-bound from beginning to the very exciting climax.
It is August 1861. Bethel Plantation, a place of tranquility and peace, located in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, remains virtually untouched although the Civil War is in full swing. As the war moves throughout the South, the Hebron Family is swept into the conflict.
Hannah Hebron leaves the peace and tranquility of Bethel and becomes the most sought after spy of the Civil War. She never intends to fall in love with the mysterious officer who rescues her more than once from arrest and prison. Who is he? Is he living a life of pretense? Is he a double spy? Her life of intrigue and suspense is intensified by a recurring, haunting dream.In desperation, Hannah realizes there is only one way to rid herself of the disturbing dream. However, her endeavors are fruitless until the dream becomes a reality.
Bethel endeavors to bring to the reader a generation of the past, depicting a way of life. An era likened unto a vapor, that appeared for a little time then vanished away.
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Having lived in Louisiana all her life greatly influenced the author for the setting of Bethel, her first novel. In Glimmer of Hope, sequel to Bethel, Tabbie captures the hearts of the readers taking them back to Bethel Plantation and the Hebron Family to the years immediately following the close of the Civil War. In 1940, Tabbie (Sharie Winborne Chamberlain) was born to Howard and Ann Winborne, in the southern farming town of Winnsboro, part of the cotton belt of Louisiana. After graduating from high school in 1958, she moved to the Lake Charles area, met and married Sam Chamberlain in 1962. Since Sam's death in 2017, Tabbie lives in MossBluff, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Other books by the author: "When I Sit In Darkness"; "Bethel"
