Book: Spark of the Revolution
Author: Megan Soja
Genre: Christian Historical Romance
Release date: March 4, 2025
A spark ignites a flame that could burn down everything they hold dear.
Contrary to her name, Patience Abbott has long felt unsettled and anxious to leave behind her painful memories in England for a fresh start in America. But her new life isn’t quite what she expected, and as tension grows in her new home of Boston, so does the distance between Patience and her estranged father. So when Josiah Wagner walks into her life, it finally feels like she’s not alone. If only his patriotic leanings didn’t put him at odds with her father’s loyalties.
Josiah Wagner has spent his life yearning for a true home and family, something he works toward each day, forging tools as a blacksmith, and each night, forging plans with the Sons of Liberty. But when the destruction of tea in Boston Harbor lights the spark of the Revolution, Josiah finds himself drawn into its tumultuous wake, pulling the woman he loves along with him.
As tensions mount, will their search for belonging lead to each other, or will the obstacles between them be too great to overcome? In a land on the brink of war, can they find the home they seek in the One who calls them His own?
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Christian Historical Romance is a favorite genre of mine. Spark of the Revolution by Megan Soja is the most recent book in this genre that I have read. It is Book 1 in the Harbor of the Spies series. It is also the debut novel by Megan Soja.
The Storyline in this book grasped my attention immediately and I couldn't put it down. The setting is November 1773 in Boston. The 2 main characters in this book are Patience Abbot and Josiah wagner. Patience Abbott has arrived in America from England with her older Brother Will. Patience was hoping for a new start in life and to leave behind the painful things that happened in the past. Will and Patience were hoping to start a relationship with their estranged father, who lives in Boston. Josiah Wagner is a local Blacksmith and part of the Sons of Liberty. Patience and Josiah connect and start a friendship. Life takes a turn for both of them when in the Harbor of Boston is just the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The dumping of Tea into the Harbor became known as the Boston Tea Party. Patience and Josiah had different view points on the happenings in the Boston Harbor and Patience knew her father wouldn't approve of Josiah's view points. Josiah and Patience were growing closer together at this point and Josiah was worried that he would lose the woman he had grown to love. Josiah has a strong faith and he is hoping he can show Patience that God will comfort and protect her through all the changes and sadness in her life, even through Wartime. I truly LOVED this book! The Boston Tea Party and Revoluntary War period is my favorite Era in History. I LOVE how the characters struggled with Life but that God's love surrounded them. Josiah is my favorite character in this book. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Chrisitan Historical Romance. GREAT BOOK!
Megan Soja is a multi-award-winning author who writes stories with strong faith, rich history, and sweet romance. She lives in western NY with her husband and two daughters and loves having adventures, both big and small, with her family. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, hiking, canoeing and kayaking, and playing French Horn.
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I have a confession. When I was in school, I didn’t really enjoy history classes. That sounds awful coming from a writer of historical fiction, doesn’t it? But it’s true. The whole concept of memorizing dates and names and places just didn’t excite me.
And yet, I have loved reading historical fiction for as long as I can remember, and have always found living history museums fascinating. I think it’s because those things made history feel real and made me feel like I was part of it. They took me deeper, beyond a list of events and famous names, into the everyday lives of ordinary people who made a lasting impact, whether they realized it or not.
It was the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things that captured my attention when I began researching for Spark of the Revolution.
They were names most of us would never recognize. Ordinary people living ordinary lives, who stepped up one night to take part in something extraordinary. Who joined an event that would go on to impact history in ways few of them likely imagined.
Names like Sarah Bradlee Fulton, who has been credited with the idea of disguising men as Mohawks and helped her husband and brothers do just that. She later rallied women to care for wounded soldiers after the Battle of Bunker Hill and traveled across enemy lines to deliver an urgent message to General George Washington.
Or David Kinnson, a farmer from Maine who journeyed to Boston with the express purpose of destroying the tea. He went on to serve in multiple battles of both the Revolution and the War of 1812, was the father of twenty-two children, and lived to be one hundred and fifteen years old.
Or Samuel Sprague, who was on the way to visit the woman he loved when he saw what was happening at the harbor and decided to join. He climbed onto a rooftop to gather soot as a disguise. Don’t worry, he did later marry his sweetheart – Joannah Thayer – and they went on to have fourteen children together. Both lived to be ninety and are buried at the Central Burying Ground on Boston Common.
I was drawn in by these stories and so many others. They reminded me that each of us are living our own stories too. And while we may often feel ordinary, we are treasured and precious in the sight of God. He has a plan and purpose for every one of us, and whether or not our names are recorded or remembered in history, we are fully known by Him.
I hope you’ll see that message when you read Spark of the Revolution. One of purpose, of meaning in the midst of the ordinary, and of belonging to the God who is unchanging throughout all of time.
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Connie’s History Classroom, March 29
For Him And My Family, March 30
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Cover Lover Book Review, March 31
Holly’s Book corner, April 1
Leslie’s Library Escape, April 2
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