Coming in 2025 & 2026
Many of you have asked, "Tamera, why is it taking so long for you to write the third Carnton novel?"
I hear you, friends. Two reasons . . .
#1
While writing Carnton book 3, I was contacted by FOCUS ON THE FAMILY to be part of a new contemporary fiction line with them, along with authors Chris Fabry and Angela Hunt—and with Jerry B. Jenkins (aka: Left Behind series and Dad to Dallas Jenkins of the phenomenal The Chosen TV series) as editor-in-chief.
The book I wrote?
A Million Little Choices
(released November 2023), my first dual timeline story (both contemporary & historical), and my first first person POV novel. Thank you for reading and for your much-appreciated word-of-mouth to fellow readers. If you haven't read A MILLION LITTLE CHOICES, you can find out more about it now.
#2
Then another opportunity came along with TYNDALE PUBLISHERS, a publishing house and team I've long admired and desired to work with. So I'm currently finishing the first of two novels for them (the first has a scheduled release of 2026).
After I'm finished with that book, I'll turn to completing the third and final Carnton novel, which has a scheduled release of 2025.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. I'm not a fast (or pithy) writer, much as I wish I were.
And who is the third Carnton novel about?
The little red-hair scamp of a sister pictured below...

Yep, it's Nora O'Toole all grown up!
Writing Nora as an adult is a trip, and she more than meets her romantic match in this story. Not to mention we'll wrap up the cherished (and real) Carnton history as we walk the familiar halls and rooms of that house together one last time.
Thank you for entrusting your time to me. It's a gift I treasure and never take for granted.
Much love from Nashville,
Tamera
More about the Carnton novels . . .
Amid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier
and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas—and of
sacrificial love.
From the pages of history and accounts of those who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves real-life love letters into a story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of the Civil War.
In
a town battered and bruised by war, one woman embarks upon an
impossible search—and one man must face the past in the very place that
almost destroyed him.
Welcome to Carnton in Franklin, TN
Writing Real History in the Carnton novels
Origin of the McGavock Cemetery
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