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…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.
Enjoy an Excerpt
Short walks with Sarah, fishing, checking his rabbit snares, being any distance from the house left Hamilton uneasy. Hadn't been safe for some time. Doubly so if Mother Greer was away and Sarah and Papa were there alone. Not sure what he'd do if he came face to face with a pack of ghost-eyed raiders. As lawlessness and incidents increased, Hamilton knew if there was to be a fight, the farther it stayed from the house, the more warning those at the Hollows might have. By any measure it was a reedy-slim plan, but the only one he could muster. If he saw he was going down he'd take as many with him as he could. His greatest fear being something happening he might've prevented by being close by. For the time being everything was as alright as he could make it.
About the Author:With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.
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.
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