Revolutionary Lines
Chapter 1
Word Count: 4,303
Chapter Summary: England is visiting America when he makes a decision that will ultimately change his relationship with America.
Excerpt: “He didn’t know when it had started, when he had first begun to realize these strange and profound feelings, but the moment they began to dawn into realization they came rushing from him like a tidal wave.”
Chapter 2
Word Count: 4,883
Chapter Summary: America tries to confront England and is unable to anticipate how he responds.
Excerpt: “It hurt, like a dull thud in the hollow of his chest, but at the moment it was the only thing telling him that he was alive, that his heart was still beating, even though it felt like it had been shattered into a million pieces.”
Chapter 3
Word Count: 4,976
Chapter Summary: France pays America a visit while England is put into a difficult situation in London.
Excerpt: “France rarely, if ever, ventured into America’s territory because if there was one thing England had always been cranky about-and oh there were so many things that got those two bushy brows furrowed-it was someone messing around with his beloved colony across the sea.”
Chapter 4
Word Count: 6,206
Chapter Summary: The arrival of British troops in the colonies forces America to choose between England or the colonists.
Excerpt: “He was too close, too dangerously close. England’s eyes could suck him in before he had a chance to even think.”
Chapter 5
Word Count: 6,190
Chapter Summary: British troops have been sent to confiscate military arms in Concord while America races to Lexington.
Excerpt: “Those eyes, England knew at once, could never be drowned out. They were intoxicating and baffling all at once, something that England felt he didn’t quite grasp yet yearned for just the same.”
Chapter 6
Word Count: 5,801
Chapter Summary: England arrives in Lexington just as the redcoats have captured America.
Excerpt: “Even in his anger, even in the pain, America was interwoven so deeply into his heart that he could never let him go.”
Chapter 7
Word Count: 6,208
Chapter Summary: America arrives at Concord as England and the British army follow behind.
Excerpt: “And then there was England. England in his red coat, England stepping through the night air as if he could part the world of darkness, England’s delicate lips that tasted faintly of herbs, England and his open hand that struck him across his face.”
Chapter 8
Word Count: 6,515
Chapter Summary: America tries to get Canada to join the rebellion while France and Spain discuss their involvement in America’s independence.
Excerpt: “America. Always America, always the one that England liked best, always the one that was the most athletic, the most outgoing, the forerunner of the New World. America and his bright smile, America and his strength, America and the pride that was so clear in England’s eyes. He was England’s everything.”
Chapter 9
Word Count: 4,702
Chapter Summary: Prussia has stern words for America while France makes a visit to England.
Excerpt: "America and his bloody colonists were demanding-demanding that he acknowledge them as an independent country."
Chapter 10
Word Count: 5,506
Chapter Summary: Prussia prepares for a major battle, while America plays the hero.
Excerpt: "Why…couldn’t he just listen when Prussia told him to let it all go? Why did England still cling desperately to his aching and breaking heart? No matter how hard he tried to push away, there was always something tying him back to the man that held his crushed heart in tightly clasped hands."
Chapter 11
Word Count: 5,200
Chapter Summary: America has been captured by England, Prussia and Spain have a plan, while France is reunited with Canada.
Excerpt: "He didn’t know what he would find and that was what scared him the most. Here in this dark place there was some measure of comfort because truly things could not get worse, but out there…out there in the light things could get much worse."
Chapter 12
Word Count: 3,878
Chapter Summary: The American Revolution is over and America wonders if the past can be mended.
Excerpt: "The future was limitless."
Word Count: 4,303
Chapter Summary: England is visiting America when he makes a decision that will ultimately change his relationship with America.
Excerpt: “He didn’t know when it had started, when he had first begun to realize these strange and profound feelings, but the moment they began to dawn into realization they came rushing from him like a tidal wave.”
Chapter 2
Word Count: 4,883
Chapter Summary: America tries to confront England and is unable to anticipate how he responds.
Excerpt: “It hurt, like a dull thud in the hollow of his chest, but at the moment it was the only thing telling him that he was alive, that his heart was still beating, even though it felt like it had been shattered into a million pieces.”
Chapter 3
Word Count: 4,976
Chapter Summary: France pays America a visit while England is put into a difficult situation in London.
Excerpt: “France rarely, if ever, ventured into America’s territory because if there was one thing England had always been cranky about-and oh there were so many things that got those two bushy brows furrowed-it was someone messing around with his beloved colony across the sea.”
Chapter 4
Word Count: 6,206
Chapter Summary: The arrival of British troops in the colonies forces America to choose between England or the colonists.
Excerpt: “He was too close, too dangerously close. England’s eyes could suck him in before he had a chance to even think.”
Chapter 5
Word Count: 6,190
Chapter Summary: British troops have been sent to confiscate military arms in Concord while America races to Lexington.
Excerpt: “Those eyes, England knew at once, could never be drowned out. They were intoxicating and baffling all at once, something that England felt he didn’t quite grasp yet yearned for just the same.”
Chapter 6
Word Count: 5,801
Chapter Summary: England arrives in Lexington just as the redcoats have captured America.
Excerpt: “Even in his anger, even in the pain, America was interwoven so deeply into his heart that he could never let him go.”
Chapter 7
Word Count: 6,208
Chapter Summary: America arrives at Concord as England and the British army follow behind.
Excerpt: “And then there was England. England in his red coat, England stepping through the night air as if he could part the world of darkness, England’s delicate lips that tasted faintly of herbs, England and his open hand that struck him across his face.”
Chapter 8
Word Count: 6,515
Chapter Summary: America tries to get Canada to join the rebellion while France and Spain discuss their involvement in America’s independence.
Excerpt: “America. Always America, always the one that England liked best, always the one that was the most athletic, the most outgoing, the forerunner of the New World. America and his bright smile, America and his strength, America and the pride that was so clear in England’s eyes. He was England’s everything.”
Chapter 9
Word Count: 4,702
Chapter Summary: Prussia has stern words for America while France makes a visit to England.
Excerpt: "America and his bloody colonists were demanding-demanding that he acknowledge them as an independent country."
Chapter 10
Word Count: 5,506
Chapter Summary: Prussia prepares for a major battle, while America plays the hero.
Excerpt: "Why…couldn’t he just listen when Prussia told him to let it all go? Why did England still cling desperately to his aching and breaking heart? No matter how hard he tried to push away, there was always something tying him back to the man that held his crushed heart in tightly clasped hands."
Chapter 11
Word Count: 5,200
Chapter Summary: America has been captured by England, Prussia and Spain have a plan, while France is reunited with Canada.
Excerpt: "He didn’t know what he would find and that was what scared him the most. Here in this dark place there was some measure of comfort because truly things could not get worse, but out there…out there in the light things could get much worse."
Chapter 12
Word Count: 3,878
Chapter Summary: The American Revolution is over and America wonders if the past can be mended.
Excerpt: "The future was limitless."