To Give Thanks: Our Pilgrim Ancestors - The stories millions of descendants wish they'd been taught. (Life in the Blood)

The romance that grew a nation and their legendary adventure that changed the world.Every now and then something comes along that makes one sit up and pay attention. It’s called a classic. Without question, “To Give Thanks” is primed to be a one of its kind epic of Americana. It offers electrifying insight on the Mayflower's perilous voyage to America, a myriad of colorful Pilgrim adventurers, and the herculean life and death obstacles standing in the way of destiny. The novel was co-written by brothers Dave and Steve Curliss, descendants of eight Mayflower passengers. (Francis Cook, John Cook, William & Alice Mullins, George Soule, and Richard Warren) and great-grandsons (x11) of Mayflower passengers John Alden and Priscilla Mullins around whom the story is told. This blue-blood romance is widely regarded as “America's First True Love Story”. Like many other blue-blood pedigrees descending from the Mayflower, the story of Pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden has a lineage of over 1.3 million living today in the United States. Their romance is the rose of the multi-layered story of perseverance. This work was painstakingly penned with every detail promoting the historical integrity it demands. Chronicles of conflicted love, bravery, greed, heartbreak, and triumph unfold throughout this jewel of Americana. To Give Thanks brushes away 400 years of dust and goes beyond contemporary traditions of the Mayflower and Thanksgiving in order to open the door to discovering incredible stories lost to time and bringing those dramatic events back to life and into the American conscious once again where they belong. In doing so, it superbly defines the great American Dream.