About the Book

Book: THE AFTERMATH: Ladies of Oberlin Book 3

Author: Tamera Lynn Kraft

Genre: Historical

Release Date: February 1, 2025

Betsy loves her husband, Nate, but losing his leg in the Civil War has changed him. He never touched alcohol before the war, but now he’s turning into a drunk. She doesn’t know how to help him, but to save their marriage, she’s going to do everything she can. If only she can figure out how.

Tormented by the loss of his leg, Nate feels worthless. His drinking only makes things worse, but he can’t stop. It’s only a matter of time before he drives Betsy away. Why did God allow this to happen? What does he owe God now, after this betrayal?

Nate’s anger and bitterness are building a wall that neither he nor Betsy can break down of climb over. Only God can help them, but Nate is no longer on speaking terms with the Lord. Is there any hope for them?

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About the Author

In her spare time, Tamera Lynn Kraft loves to watch classic movies, drink quality teas, and ride on roller coasters, but not while drinking tea. She does drink tea while writing and working as managing editor for Mt Zion Ridge Press, a traditional Christian publishing company. She has always loved adventures and loves to write historical fiction set in the United States because there are so many stories in American history. Forks in the Road, The Aftermath, Lost in the Storm, Red Sky Over America, Anna’s Christmas Promise, Alice’s Notions, and Resurrection of Hope are among her published works, some of which have won awards.

Tamera has been married for a very long time to the love of her life, Rick, and has two married adult children and the most adorable and smartest grandchildren in the world. She was a children’s pastor for over 20 years. She is now the leader of a ministry called Revival Fire for Kids where she mentors and coaches children’s leaders, teaches workshops, and is a children’s ministry consultant and children’s evangelist. She has written children’s church curriculum including Building Foundations and is a recipient of the 2007 National Children’s Leaders Association Shepherd’s Cup for lifetime achievement in children’s ministry.

More from Tamera

Oberlin College: Ahead of It’s Time

(Insert books picture) All three of my Ladies of Oberlin books feature women who graduated from Oberlin College shortly before the Civil War. Oberlin College, founded in 1833 in Northern Ohio, was a college ahead of its time in many ways. In 1835, it became the first college in the United States to regularly admit African Americans. It’s also the oldest co-educational college in the US. In 1837, it admitted four women, three of whom graduated and earned a college degree. Mary Jane Patterson, another Oberlin graduate, became the first African American woman in 1862 to earn a Bachelor of Arts college degree.

One of Oberlin’s founders once bragged that “Oberlin is peculiar in that which is good”. Oberlin was peculiar in many ways in advancing the causes of the time. Charles Finney, the second president of the college, helped it earn its controversial reputation. He was the founder of the Second Great Awakening, a Christian revivalist movement in the early and mid 1800s.

Oberlin College was the hotbed of abolitionist activity and a stop for the Underground Railroad before the Civil War. It was once called “the town that started the Civil War” because of its participation in the Oberlin Wellington Rescue in 1858. Slave catchers came to Oberlin to capture an escaped slave and return him to Kentucky. Most of the town came to the slave’s aid and rescued him. For their trouble, over twenty were arrested and put on trial for violating the Fugitive Slave Act. During the raid on Harper’s Ferry by John Brown, three men from Oberlin participated.

(Insert arch picture) Oberlin graduates have been involved in all of the movements of the late 1800s including abolition, women’s suffrage, the suffrage movement, and education as well as many charities and helped shape the nation for the twentieth century.

Oberlin was also very well known in the missionary movement of the late 1800s. Between 1860 and 1900, 90% of missionaries sent overseas by the American Missionary Society were graduates of Oberlin College. Between 1899 and 1901, thirteen missionaries from Oberlin were martyred during the Boxer Rebellion of China. An arch in Tappan Square at the center of Oberlin pays honor to their sacrifices.

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Give us an insight into your faith in the Lord.

I was saved when I was 13 years old. I had to ride the church bus because I was the only person in my family who had given her life to Christ. My childhood wasn’t easy, but God changed the trajectory of my life that day. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was one of millions who gave her life to Christ during the Jesus Revolution. My church was one of the many churches caught up in that revival. We studied the Bible as teens, had all night prayer meetings, worshipped, ministered in the church, went street witnessing at the local campus, and lived out our faith in the schools. That time has affected the way I serve and love God in everything that happens in my life. In my twenties, I became a children’s pastor on staff and was on staff for 20 years. Then God lead me to become a children’s evangelist and consultant. He also led me to start writing again. I wrote constantly when I was young. I now write Christian historicals and children’s church curriculum.

Do your books revolve around certain themes?

Not on purpose, but they do. I’ve noticed all of my books have the themes of redemption and standing strong in your faith during adversity. They sometimes have one of the themes of the other. Oftentimes they have both. THE AFTERMATH has both.

Is your book part of a series?

Yes, it is. It’s the third book in the Ladies of Oberlin Series. The series is about three women who graduated from Oberlin College in 1859. Oberlin College in Ohio was a real college that allowed women and blacks to get degrees alongside white men long before the Civil War. Charles Finney, fiery evangelist of the Second Great Awakening was the president at the time. Oberlin College was involved with many issues of the day including abolition, women’s suffrage, education for all, laws to prevent abuse of children by the workforce and by parents, and the missionary movement. 90% of all missionaries in the Unites States that were sent out in the late 1800s were graduates of Oberlin College.

RED SKY OVER AMERICA, book 1 of the series, is about America, a student at Oberlin, going home to Kentucky during her break to convince her father to free his slaves. Her love interest, William Woods, was in Kentucky preaching abolition to slave owning churches.

LOST IN THE STORM, book 2, was about Lavena who had graduated and became a journalist. It was set in 1863 during the Civil War. She was assigned to get an interview from Captain Cage, a medal of honor winner from the Ohio Seventh Regiment. If she didn’t get the story, she would be fired, but Captain Cage had secrets that kept him from being interviewed, even by this woman reporter he was attracted to.

THE AFTERMATH, book 3, is about Betsy after the war. During the war, her husband lost a leg. He came home as an alcoholic, but she plans to save him from himself.

What are you currently working on?

Currently, I’m not writing a novel. I’m working on children’s church curriculum for my ministry, Revival Fire for Kids. I’m also working on planning an online Christian Writing Conference that I’m the director of.

When you aren’t writing, what do you enjoy doing?

I enjoy spending time with my grandchildren, watching a classic movie, reading a good book, going to the beach, and visiting with good friends. I also enjoy teaching Bible studies in a small group setting.