And Still They Came

The Epic Story...

of the people who struggled to survive and rise from ancient roots to reach for the stars...

Two hundred years of Florida's amazing history comes alive as you follow the soldiers, cow hunters, spongers, slaves, farmers, and railroad gandydancers who shaped it.

• US Army Lt. August Booker broke all the rules when he fell in love with a Seminole woman. Her children would preserve the dying embers of a vanishing culture.
• Northerner Anthony Crews worked his way through a hostile land to find his fortune, yet his daughter Amanda would face barriers that threatened to block her dreams.
• Freed slave Sam Lewis led his family to the promised land of the Everglades, only to see his world catapaulted into chaos in a day.

Triumph and tragedy confront the rugged individuals who dream of a better life. Despite years of warfare, violence, and disease, their descendants would rise to fulfill an ancient prophesy. Carefully researched and historically accurate, And Still They Came is populated by the real people who shaped the modern state, and the imagined lives of those who made it all possible.