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EXODUSTERS: WE AIN'T GOING BACK
Book One - A Historical Christian Frontier Novel of Miracles, Mayhem & Divine Destiny
In the decades after the Civil War, thousands of African Americans fled the violence, lynchings, and poverty of the South and headed westward in what history now calls The Exoduster Movement (1879-1890). They sought land, safety, dignity, and a future. They built towns like Nicodemus, Kansas, and carved out new lives despite storms, racism, and impossibilities.
These fictional Exodusters walk in this same spirit-carrying the courage, resilience, and divine hunger of the real Exodusters who refused to go back to bondage or fear.
This novel brings that history roaring to life-with miracles, comedy, romance, and Holy Ghost fire.
THE STORY:
Four plus-size, highly trained medical women from Henry University-Dr. Maggie Brown, Dr. Charity Belle Washington, Nurse Ruth Anne Johnson, and Nurse-Midwife Lottie Mae Carter-answer a desperate call from a struggling frontier town, Glory Creek. But Glory Creek has made one major mistake:
They expected dainty white lady doctors who could cook Southern food and curtsey on command.
Instead, God sends them curvy, educated Black women with fire in their bones.
But before the four can even reach Oklahoma, their journey, like the real Exodusters, becomes a path of unplanned trials and divine detours:
A Freight Train Derailment
Stranded for weeks, the women transform a temperance boardinghouse into a bustling clinic and bakery-healing fevers, pulling infections, delivering babies, and sparking revival.
A sudden twister wipes out the local rail line, forcing them to take shelter in the mansion of a wealthy man whose life they give medical attention. Soon the entire region lines up daily for treatment, just as frontier towns once lined up for the few Black Exoduster doctors who traveled west.
A Kidnapping That Turns Into a Mission
Native American men-displaced by their own history of injustice, including the Trail of Tears-beg the women to come to their hidden reservation where mothers are dying, babies are breech, and disease runs unchecked.
What begins as kidnapping becomes a Book-of-Acts outpouring of healing, charity, farming aid, and reconciliation.
A Train Filled With Wounded Buffalo Soldiers & Ex-Rangers
Seven stubborn, prideful men reject the idea of women doctors-until severe food poisoning drops them to the floor. Another group of women to the west, seven Exodusters walk out, leaving them to suffer until humility cracks their armor.
What follows becomes a once-in-a-lifetime revival:
A Mass Marriage Wedding on the Rail Line
Seven couples marry in one night-including ten additional passengers-while people shout, cry, worship, and give gifts. Gold coins. Quilts. Cakes. Blessings.
It becomes a frontier miracle whispered through every station for miles and additional mass marriages on the train.
THE FINAL MIRACLE OF BOOK ONE
Upon finally reaching Ellie and Caleb's town, the Exodusters face their greatest challenge yet:
A pregnant 15 year-old girl-violated by a jealous seventeen-year-old boy-lies dying with twins.
Doctors say, "We have no power."
The missionaries gather in tongues and intercession.
Then-a miracle like the woman with the issue of blood.
The bleeding stops instantly.
Both babies are delivered alive.
The girl lives.
The town trembles at the glory of God.
Book One - A Historical Christian Frontier Novel of Miracles, Mayhem & Divine Destiny
In the decades after the Civil War, thousands of African Americans fled the violence, lynchings, and poverty of the South and headed westward in what history now calls The Exoduster Movement (1879-1890). They sought land, safety, dignity, and a future. They built towns like Nicodemus, Kansas, and carved out new lives despite storms, racism, and impossibilities.
These fictional Exodusters walk in this same spirit-carrying the courage, resilience, and divine hunger of the real Exodusters who refused to go back to bondage or fear.
This novel brings that history roaring to life-with miracles, comedy, romance, and Holy Ghost fire.
THE STORY:
Four plus-size, highly trained medical women from Henry University-Dr. Maggie Brown, Dr. Charity Belle Washington, Nurse Ruth Anne Johnson, and Nurse-Midwife Lottie Mae Carter-answer a desperate call from a struggling frontier town, Glory Creek. But Glory Creek has made one major mistake:
They expected dainty white lady doctors who could cook Southern food and curtsey on command.
Instead, God sends them curvy, educated Black women with fire in their bones.
But before the four can even reach Oklahoma, their journey, like the real Exodusters, becomes a path of unplanned trials and divine detours:
A Freight Train Derailment
Stranded for weeks, the women transform a temperance boardinghouse into a bustling clinic and bakery-healing fevers, pulling infections, delivering babies, and sparking revival.
A sudden twister wipes out the local rail line, forcing them to take shelter in the mansion of a wealthy man whose life they give medical attention. Soon the entire region lines up daily for treatment, just as frontier towns once lined up for the few Black Exoduster doctors who traveled west.
A Kidnapping That Turns Into a Mission
Native American men-displaced by their own history of injustice, including the Trail of Tears-beg the women to come to their hidden reservation where mothers are dying, babies are breech, and disease runs unchecked.
What begins as kidnapping becomes a Book-of-Acts outpouring of healing, charity, farming aid, and reconciliation.
A Train Filled With Wounded Buffalo Soldiers & Ex-Rangers
Seven stubborn, prideful men reject the idea of women doctors-until severe food poisoning drops them to the floor. Another group of women to the west, seven Exodusters walk out, leaving them to suffer until humility cracks their armor.
What follows becomes a once-in-a-lifetime revival:
A Mass Marriage Wedding on the Rail Line
Seven couples marry in one night-including ten additional passengers-while people shout, cry, worship, and give gifts. Gold coins. Quilts. Cakes. Blessings.
It becomes a frontier miracle whispered through every station for miles and additional mass marriages on the train.
THE FINAL MIRACLE OF BOOK ONE
Upon finally reaching Ellie and Caleb's town, the Exodusters face their greatest challenge yet:
A pregnant 15 year-old girl-violated by a jealous seventeen-year-old boy-lies dying with twins.
Doctors say, "We have no power."
The missionaries gather in tongues and intercession.
Then-a miracle like the woman with the issue of blood.
The bleeding stops instantly.
Both babies are delivered alive.
The girl lives.
The town trembles at the glory of God.