MOCCASIN TRACE
by Hawk MacKinney
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GENRE: Historical Fiction
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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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EXCERPT
Young Hamilton was as special to Bessie as eighteen-year-old sassy Sam, her blood son. Didn't take but a few butt-whallopin's from Rundell for youngster Hamilton to learn mouthy back talk brought swift retribution. When Samuel come into the world, Corinthia gave Bessie a pledge Sam would never be sold away from her. Come down to as simple as Bessie and Sam were family. No fancy reasons or ugly mixed-blood skeletons; Corinthia loved Bessie, and it flowed both ways. Bessie would've gotten consider'bly riled if anyone say she was part of what needed changing. The Bends was her home, too
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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.
Website: http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Moccasin-Trace-Hawk-Mackinney/dp/1595071482
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
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