The Goodwin Women Chronicles

Before the Great War came the great journey.

In 1829, 19-year-old Claire Appleton faces a choice that will define generations when her husband, Harold, dreams of a new beginning in Upper Canada. Claire must leave behind her New Brunswick home and everyone she knows to brave a 900-mile journey through wilderness and hardship in search of a better...

Her courage will light the way — one act of compassion at a time.

1859, Canada West. Rose Goodwin is a devoted wife, mother and volunteer for the Simcoe County Vigilance Committee. When she’s asked to care for a gravely ill woman who has escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, Rose’s comfortable world is upended.

Tending to Judith, a...

She’s everything a proper woman shouldn’t be — and that’s exactly how she wants to remain.

Ontario, 1884. Lucretia Goodwin is clever, determined, and dangerously outspoken in a world that rewards women for their silence. She’s content to pursue her teaching career, nurture her independence, and ignore the whispers that she’s “the unmarriable...

Before the Great War, there were generations of women who built the legacy.

Spanning nearly a century of Canadian history, The Trail Blazers traces the courage, compassion, and conviction of the women whose lives shaped the family at the heart of the Echoes of the Great War Trilogy.

From the struggles of pioneer life to the social awakenings of...