Steven Nielsen’s Books

Hebrew Gold chronicles the distinctive Hebrew literary style used by prophets of God eg. Moses, Isaiah, Mormon Jacob etc., whose prophecies are contained in the Holy Bible and Book of Mormon. Lost in time, the style was completely unknown until its discovery in 1936. Beautifully illustrated, Hebrew Gold exhibits this stounding find clearly and factually. The book is a treasure indeed!

The fourth book of the Two Runs of Stone Saga.

The fifth and final novel in an exciting series, Full Circle begins with 1865 pioneer tribulation – Catherine Jensen faces hostile Indians, long winters, privation and romance, while helping her son run a gristmill by a waterfall on the Torrent River, and ends in 1984 in a blood testing laboratory in modern Torrent City. Royce Jensen, great-grandson of Catherine Jensen, is the hard driving owner of Rocky Mountain Laboratories where a blood sample containing the deadly AIDS virus has just arrived…

Two Runs of Stone is a thrilling historical fiction portraying Victorian Denmark and a wealthy milling family caught in a whirlwind of politics, monarchial and religious oppression, amid philosophical awakening and new thirst for basic human freedom. Take a trip in time thru the grandeur of Copenhagen; sail the deep and powerful fjords of Scandinavia on billowing wind-ships; ride on velvet and leather upholstery in horse drawn carriages and surging locomotives; feel love blossom in wooded parks; walk the lush countryside waving golden grains ripe for the windmill’s blades; finally listen as cannons roar, muskets fire and bayonets flash amid thick smoke on muddy battlefields. Meanwhile, observe as a breath taking necklace handcrafted by a master jeweler weaves a common thread throughout a saga rich in human spirit.

Elizabeth Anne Brown’s only daughter had been buried at sea. Belief in the Lord Jesus Christ had sustained our “Lady of Herbs” through the intense trauma and difficult voyage, but now huddled alone in her blankets on a snow bound prairie in America, Elizabeth Anne found her faith in God and His true and living church, wavering.

Meanwhile laying awake on the same lonely prairie a few tents away, Peter and Maren Jensen were warm enough as they snuggled together under their heavy bed roll, never the less the cold chill of possibly losing her baby had Maren fretful.

Now listening to oxen bawling for fresh grass and her husband’s fitful snores, Maren had her doubts. Expecting their first child had the young bride feeling awkward, ugly, and extremely vulnerable. Why does God try women so severely?

Meanwhile in a far away Manhattan, another group of immigrant Saints crowded the rooms and hallways of an aging four storey hotel. Having recently processed through immigration at Castle Gardens, over three hundred church members had clamored down the icy, wet, narrow streets of the dark city and up dim lit stairways into heaven.

Whether out on the prairie or on trains leaving New York City, searching among the throng of immigrants the reader will recognize many old friends from Denmark and England and despite the harsh conditions, adventure and romance blossom as these saints of God make their way West.

Two Runs of Stone is a thrilling historical fiction portraying Victorian Denmark and a wealthy milling family caught in a whirlwind of politics, monarchial and religious oppression, amid philosophical awakening and new thirst for basic human freedom. Take a trip in time thru the grandeur of Copenhagen; sail the deep and powerful fjords of Scandinavia on billowing wind-ships; ride on velvet and leather upholstery in horse drawn carriages and surging locomotives; feel love blossom in wooded parks; walk the lush countryside waving golden grains ripe for the windmill’s blades; finally listen as cannons roar, muskets fire and bayonets flash amid thick smoke on muddy battlefields. Meanwhile, observe as a breath taking necklace handcrafted by a master jeweler weaves a common thread throughout a saga rich in human spirit.

A wonderful trek in beautifully written historical fiction, this series takes you from Denmark to the United States alongside the travelers you get to know and care about. Royalty, romance, intrigue and adventure are all part of this marvelous journey. From the early 1800’s down to our present day, the series of books takes you not only on a sojourn of place but also one of time.“From Treasures to Freedom – A Beckoning Call”, although historically accurate, where the novel’s story is concerned, is a work of fiction. That said however, the dialogue and characterizations of the story’s individuals do reflect letters and journals of the day.Beneficiary of her father’s lands, livestock and gristmill, Catherine Rasmussen’s otherwise secure life is greatly impaired by her marriage to Elias Jensen, so-called Doctor of Jurisprudence, political aspirant and known seducer. Only her sons keep Catherine on track. Her home, the mill and other outbuildings have been spared the devastation of Denmark’s 1864 war with Prussia but left Catherine emotionally shattered. A precious necklace and a few thousand pieces of gold in the vault behind a painting of the mill represent Catherine’s liquid assets but doubts over Denmark’s future have the heiress to her father’s grist mill business anxious.Protesters throng the cobbled streets of Copenhagen demanding answers for Denmark’s war with Prussia and reform of the country’s archaic monarchical system of government. Free elections of a more representative body in the government had grudgingly been granted but the citizens want more. Adding spice to the boiling political stew, the human existence philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard shook the government’s bedpartner, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Denmark’s state church) wide awake, and Catherine’s eldest son Peter, a student protester is caught up in the fray. But of greater concern to Catherine is Peter’s romance with a shopkeeper’s daughter Maren Carlsen.The implications of Peter and Maren’s union include changing religions and immigration to, of all places the United States of America, itself a boiling cauldron of civil strife, and all this, has Catherine extremely despondent.Is Peter’s desire to leave Denmark his way of ending the conflict between himself and younger brother Ferdinand or is it genuinely connected to his recent finding of peace and direction? Catherine doesn’t know. Her own marriage is a disaster and many days divorcing Elias, selling her holdings and then traipsing all over the globe doesn’t sound so illogical.From Treasures to Freedom is an epic in historical fiction set in the late 1800’s and is the result of twenty-five years of concerted effort. Actual journals of the women and men who lived and died during the Victorian era provide the foundation of the work not to mention their Danish, English and American ancestors. Here’s to great reading!