To Every Season (Paperback or Softback)

When a young woman moves her family to the North Carolina wilderness, she depends on her spiritual fortitude and loving compassion to become the leader her Quaker community desperately needs.

After Mary Jackson undertakes the perilous journey of moving to the North Carolina wilderness with her family, she answers the call to lead the women in her Quaker meeting, a role she struggles to fulfill with sensitive insight and loving care.

Too soon, their peaceful community is shattered when farmers rise in rebellion, demanding an end to local government corruption. Despite her efforts, the women of the meeting can only watch as the rebels become increasingly violent. Negotiations for a peaceful resolution are unsuccessful. The rebellion fails in a bloody battle.

As the drumbeats of the American Revolution reach the Piedmont, the future of the Quaker community rests on Mary’s shoulders. Only the strength of her spiritual reserves will ensure her small Quaker meeting survives.

Courtney Smith, Exhibits and Programs Coordinator, Orange County Historical Museum: “An original story of a woman’s determination to meet the challenges of frontier life in Piedmont North Carolina during the mid to late 1700s as well as her striving to maintain the standards of goodness expected of her Quaker faith and of her calling to ministry. Readers will learn much about Quaker ideals and practices during the colonial period.”

Max Carter, Emeritus professor of Quaker Studies, Guilford College: “Haines paints vivid word pictures of the daunting task of uprooting from home and traveling through barely broken wilderness to a new land where life has to start over from scratch… within the tension developing in the novel around maintaining a faith community, confronting slavery and war, and remaining true to Quaker testimony.””