MOCCASIN TRACE
by Hawk MacKinney
GENRE: Historical Fiction
BLURB:
…it was
about the land.
It is July
of 1859, a month of sweltering dog days and feverish emotional bombast. Life is
good for widower Rundell Ingram and his hazel-eyed, roan-haired son, Hamilton.
Between the two of them, they take care of Moccasin Hollow, their sprawling
ancestral plantation home in the rolling farming country outside Queensborough
Towne in east Georgia. Adjoining Ingram lands is Wisteria Bend, the vast
slave-holding plantation of Andrew and Corinthia Greer, their daughter Sarah,
and son Benjamin. Both families share generations of long-accepted traditions,
and childhood playmates are no longer children. The rangy, even-tempered
Norman-Scottish young Hamilton is smitten with Sarah, who has become an
enticing capricious beauty—the young lovers more in love with each passing day,
and only pleasant times ahead of them.
…but a
blood tide of war is sweeping across the South, a tide that will forever change
everyone and everything.
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Exclusive Excerpt Snippet:
Hamilton felt Mother
Greer's grip stiffen on his arm. His
lips pressed thin, held his breath; he knew Ben was listening on the other side
of the door. Worried what Ben might do
if push came to shove. Corinthia lowered
her head ever so slightly, then with the inbred dignified upbringing of her
mother an' grandmother, her eyes rose to face this uncultivated man holding
sway over their lives. Dominion in this
most difficult of encounters wasn't unlike what she'd faced before. This was little to do with social graces,
more with an air of expectancy and the slimmest of chances they had nothing to
lose. She smiled her most resolute of
gracious smiles, obligin' respect from this ruffian, and with an air of the
confident familiar—waited. The Sergeant
stared at her, his lips slightly parted as though stopped in midsentence. No one spoke.
In addition, Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention. He is currently working on a series of horror/suspense novels.
Website:
http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com
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