Second Chance

The Early Saga

The Early Chronicles follow the adventures of young Chance Early of Western North Carolina from 1834 onward.


About Second Chance

In 1836, America is a wilderness. 16 year-old Chance Early finds himself hired by statesman Oliver Pressley to accompany Pressley’s nephew Noah, a haughty young lawyer-in-training as they journey via stagecoach, farm cart, and boat from Columbia, South Carolina to Nashville, Tennessee on a political mission that is revealed to Chance only upon their arrival. Chance has a mission of his own—to acquire and enslaved woman and free her—but first he will meet the President of the United States and two future Presidents. This is a tale full of adventure, humor, political intrigue, and love won and lost, set in a tumultuous decade.