Chapters of Life

Preserving the Past ~ One Family's Story at a Time

Archive for August, 2025

Shadows of a Mother’s Dream

I enjoyed working with Helena Wagner to edit and design her memoir, Shadows of a Mother’s Dream: A Story of Hope, Resilience, and Love, a wonderful story of her life in Korea, her marriage to a U.S. serviceman, embracing the Christian faith, and her life growing in confidence as a wife, mother, and entrepreneur. Pick […]

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Shattered Peace: A Century of Silence

A forgotten diary. A century-old secret. A town still haunted by its past. When former Navy Seabee Colleen Holmes inherits an old house in Centralia, Washington, she sees it as a chance to escape her own ghosts and start anew. But as she peels back layers of history within the home’s walls, she unearths long-buried […]

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The Reluctant Pioneer: Inspired by a True Story

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and […]

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