Step into history like never before...
Step into history like never before. C.S. Scott, an American author of historical fiction, invites readers to journey through time—where love, loss, and resilience intertwine across generations. As a historical fiction author whose stories explore how families endure love, loss, and war across centuries of European history, C.S. Scott Media books bring the past vividly to life. Each novel blends meticulous research with powerful storytelling, creating immersive worlds where personal struggles meet the sweeping forces of history. Experience the triumphs, heartbreaks, and enduring spirit of humanity in tales that remind us how the past still shapes who we are today.
What We Hide
When nations erase history, families keep it alive.
A Lithuanian Family Chronicle follows the Daukantas family through centuries of invasion, repression, and rebirth in Eastern Europe. From the Union of Lublin to Soviet occupation and the modern fight for memory, generations of Lithuanians endure exile, censorship, and silence while clinging to faith, language, and home.
Zofia risks everything to teach children their forbidden alphabet under foreign rule. Kazys and Sofija fight to survive the brutality of Soviet deportations. In 2025, Mindaugas Daukantas uncovers the letters and ledgers that reveal how his ancestors kept their heritage alive through centuries of loss.
Across wars, occupations, and revolutions, the Daukantas family’s story becomes a testament to endurance—how memory survives when nations fall, and how love, language, and defiance keep a people from disappearing.
Sweeping yet intimate, What We Hide is a powerful exploration of identity, resistance, and the hidden strength of those who refuse to forget.
Four German Flags
Four centuries, four flags,
one family’s unbroken will to endure.
Four German Flags traces the Schmidt family through three centuries of upheaval, resilience, and reinvention in Central Europe. From the reforms of Frederick the Great to the ruins of World War II, from the silence of East Germany to the promise of reunification, generations of Schmidts must reconcile loyalty, faith, and survival as their homeland changes beyond recognition.
Johann Schmidt rises from a blacksmith’s son to a general in Frederick’s army, shaping a nation built on discipline and order. Two centuries later, Clara endures the hunger and heartbreak of World War I, while her descendants—Ingrid and Leni—navigate suspicion, secrecy, and sacrifice in communist East Germany. Across every era, the Schmidt women become the keepers of memory, preserving what history seeks to erase.
Spanning the Enlightenment to modern Europe, Four German Flags is a sweeping family chronicle of endurance, belonging, and moral courage—a story of how ordinary lives are tested by empire, ideology, and the relentless march of time
The Forge and The Vine
In an age of empires, they built their strength in love and iron.
The Forge and the Vine follows the Schmidt family through the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, when empires collapsed and ordinary lives were reshaped by ambition, loyalty, and love. From the forges of Saxony to the vineyards of France, generations of men and women must choose between duty and compassion as the tides of war test their faith in one another.
Jakob Schmidt, a blacksmith turned soldier, fights under Napoleon’s banners, forging weapons that both protect and destroy. His wife Anna tends vines in a land stripped bare by occupation, where survival becomes an act of quiet defiance.
Their descendants—caught between kings, revolutions, and the hunger for peace—learn that true endurance is not found on battlefields but in the bonds that hold families together.
Sweeping and human at its core, The Forge and the Vine is a story of courage, faith, and resilience—of people who build, love, and endure even as the world around them burns.
C.S. Scott, Author
C.S. Scott is an American author whose work explores how ordinary people endure the extraordinary weight of history. Through meticulously researched, emotionally layered storytelling, he reveals how the tides of war, politics, and ideology shape the quiet corners of family life.
His novels span centuries of upheaval across Eastern Europe, from the rise and fall of empires to the revolutions that redrew its borders. Each follows families bound by love, conscience, and endurance as they struggle to survive the shifting tides of war, ideology, and national identity.
Blending vivid details with human tenderness, C.S. Scott's fiction asks what remains when empires fall and flags change - when identity, memory, and morality are tested by actions of others.
Drawing on many decades of travel and study across Europe, C.S. Scott writes with a deep respect of the resilience of those who lived through oppression and loss yet refused to surrender their humanity.
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I am on a mission to tell the stories of families before those stories are forgotten or lost all together. If you or your family have a story, please reach out to me. I'd love to learn more and perhaps include your family story in an upcoming book.