Novelist of the American Revolution
What made the American Colonists turn their back on their King, and fight for independence? How were they different from us–and how were their hopes and fears familiar to our own hearts?
These are the sorts of questions that Hedbor thinks are important to ask in examining the American Revolution, and in the pages of his novels, he suggests some possible answers.
His first novel, The Prize, was published in 2011, followed by The Light in 2013, and The Smoke, The Declaration, and The Break in 2014; The Wind was published in 2015, The Darkness in 2016, The Path in 2017, The Freedman in 2018, The Tree in 2019, The Mine and The Siege in 2020, and The Will and The Convention in 2021, The Oath in 2022, The Powder in 2023, and The Word in 2024, making Hedbor the most prolific novelist ever of the American Revolution. His first play, an adaptation of The Siege, premiered in 2022.
He’s also written extensively about this era for the Journal of the American Revolution, and has appeared as a featured guest on an Emmy-nominated Discovery Network program, The American Revolution, which premiered nationally on the American Heroes Channel in late 2014. He later appeared as a series expert on America: Fact vs. Fiction for Discovery Networks, and was a panelist at the Historical Novel Society’s 2017 North American Conference, the 2022 Authors’ Congress, and the 2022 20Books Vegas Conference.
He is an amateur historian, linguist, brewer, cuckoo clock restorer, fiddler, astronomer and baker. Professionally, he is a technologist, high school foreign exchange coordinator, marketer, writer and father. His love of history drives him to share the excitement of understanding the events of long ago, and how those events touch us still today.
The Biggest Heroes Are Sometimes Unsung
Caleb’s father is serving with Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys as the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties on the family farm and constant worry about his father&rsquo..
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Even the Most Familiar Stories Have Two Sides
After fleeing revolutionary violence in colonial Massachusetts, Susannah Mills is trying to put the pieces of her shattered life back together. When the safe haven that she and her father sought in Nova Scotia is threatened, they must put everything o..
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Surrender Was Just the Beginning of the Battle
Arthur Leary thought that his part in the Revolution ended when his generals surrendered their army to the Americans after the Battle of Saratoga. Little did he know that political maneuvering at the highest levels of British and American government ..
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Though Dark Days May Come...
The darkness descending over coastal Maine leaves George no choice but to leave childhood behind for good. Despite living in the shadow of America’s most crushing naval defeat in the ongoing Revolution, George’s life is pretty simple, if dull. A beautiful ..
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A Long-Lost Document and a Forgotten Heritage
Justin Harris thought he’d secured his family’s comfort on their farm in the upcountry of colonial South-Carolina. Then marauding British forces come to threaten everything he held dear. When he takes up arms in support of the Revolution, ..
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What Does Liberty Mean for a Freedman?
Calabar was brought from Africa to North-Carolina as a boy and sold on the docks as chattel property to a plantation owner. On the plantation, he learned the intricacies of indigo production, fell in love, and started a family. Abruptly released from bondage..
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Brotherhood Sometimes Appears in Unexpected Places...
Enmeshed in a brutal siege at the walls around Savannah, James finds unexpected companions among the soldiers who were sent by the French to help the American cause. Friends become brothers, bound together by shared sacrifice and purpose &mdas..
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He Came to Fight for Liberty for All
Yves de Bourganes just wanted to make some money to support his widowed mother as she tried to keep the family farm afloat. He wouldn’t have minded some adventure, too. He didn’t expect to be sent to fight in a war between France’s constant n..
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Caught Between the Impossible and the Forbidden
As his world erupts in open warfare, Robert Harris’ Quaker faith guides him away from the use of violence for any purpose, even if the war could cost him the freedom to practice that faith. Finding a balancing point between this existential th..
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Fighting the Revolution Put Him Underground
Alec Tinsworth joined the Loyalist militia to restore his family’s fortunes after his Connecticut neighbors rebelled against the British Crown. His own luck runs out when he is captured and thrown into the most notorious prison in the colony&mdash..
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Paradise is no Refuge From Revolution
In the midst of a struggle for survival in colonial Bermuda, Hal is thrust into a world of revolution and intrigue when Molly’s father enlists his help in a daring plot to aid the mainland rebels. Though more concerned with his next meal than distant co..
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The Revolution Followed Him Home...
Maimed in battle, Nathaniel Wooster wants to recuperate and try to rebuild his life. Returning home to his mother's cottage in the quiet port community of York-Town seems like a good place to find some peace and quiet. He's slowly finding hi..
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They Should Have Been Enemies, But They Became Brothers
Joseph Killeen was sent to eliminate the threat of savage enemies in the forests of New-York, but when he meets Ginawo and his peaceful Skarure village, he realizes that nothing is as simple as he was told. The Haudenosaunee Confederation is..
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Planting the Tree of Liberty
Abe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire land grant and its troublesome Royal Navy mast trees, with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds comfort in a new friendship with Betty, a decidedly odd neighbor. Defying..
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The British Were the Least of His Problems...
As the British close in on Philadelphia, trouble at home and a fight with Congress culminate in the worst night of Isaac Melcher’s life. Can he recover his honor and his marriage before both are lost forever—and help prevent the Revolution..
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The American Revolution Reaches the Gulf Coast
Gabriel is a simple sailor, doing the bidding of his Captain and King, when he is swept up in a storm that changes his life in ways that he could never have anticipated. Carlotta yearns for her lost home, and is searching for her lost husband, but bo..
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The Spirit May Move in Mysterious Ways
Prosper Creale has enough to deal with in wrenching enough out of his farm to keep his family fed and healthy in the face of the disruptions of the American Revolution. Then God speaks to him, and the radical teachings of a traveling preacher lead him to joi..
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Even the Most Familiar Stories Have Two Sides
After fleeing revolutionary violence in colonial Massachusetts, Susannah Mills is trying to put the pieces of her shattered life back together. When the safe haven that she and her father sought in Nova Scotia is threatened, they must put everything o..
$14.99
Surrender Was Just the Beginning of the Battle
Arthur Leary thought that his part in the Revolution ended when his generals surrendered their army to the Americans after the Battle of Saratoga. Little did he know that political maneuvering at the highest levels of British and American government ..
$14.99
Though Dark Days May Come...
The darkness descending over coastal Maine leaves George no choice but to leave childhood behind for good. Despite living in the shadow of America’s most crushing naval defeat in the ongoing Revolution, George’s life is pretty simple, if dull. A beautiful ..
$14.99
A Long-Lost Document and a Forgotten Heritage
Justin Harris thought he’d secured his family’s comfort on their farm in the upcountry of colonial South-Carolina. Then marauding British forces come to threaten everything he held dear. When he takes up arms in support of the Revolution, ..
$14.99
What Does Liberty Mean for a Freedman?
Calabar was brought from Africa to North-Carolina as a boy and sold on the docks as chattel property to a plantation owner. On the plantation, he learned the intricacies of indigo production, fell in love, and started a family. Abruptly released from bondage..
$14.99
Caught Between the Impossible and the Forbidden
As his world erupts in open warfare, Robert Harris’ Quaker faith guides him away from the use of violence for any purpose, even if the war could cost him the freedom to practice that faith. Finding a balancing point between this existential th..
$14.99
Fighting the Revolution Put Him Underground
Alec Tinsworth joined the Loyalist militia to restore his family’s fortunes after his Connecticut neighbors rebelled against the British Crown. His own luck runs out when he is captured and thrown into the most notorious prison in the colony&mdash..
$14.99
Brotherhood Sometimes Appears in Unexpected Places...
Enmeshed in a brutal siege at the walls around Savannah, James finds unexpected companions among the soldiers who were sent by the French to help the American cause. Friends become brothers, bound together by shared sacrifice and purpose &mdas..
$14.99
He Came to Fight for Liberty for All
Yves de Bourganes just wanted to make some money to support his widowed mother as she tried to keep the family farm afloat. He wouldn’t have minded some adventure, too. He didn’t expect to be sent to fight in a war between France’s constant n..
$14.99
Paradise is no Refuge From Revolution
In the midst of a struggle for survival in colonial Bermuda, Hal is thrust into a world of revolution and intrigue when Molly’s father enlists his help in a daring plot to aid the mainland rebels. Though more concerned with his next meal than distant co..
$14.99
The Biggest Heroes Are Sometimes Unsung
Caleb’s father is serving with Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys as the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties on the family farm and constant worry about his father&rsquo..
$14.99
The Revolution Followed Him Home...
Maimed in battle, Nathaniel Wooster wants to recuperate and try to rebuild his life. Returning home to his mother's cottage in the quiet port community of York-Town seems like a good place to find some peace and quiet. He's slowly finding hi..
$14.99