Book Info
Title- Moccasin Trace
By- Hawk MacKinney
Genre- Historical Romance
Published By- ArcheBooks Publishing
Publication Date- March 2014
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Synopsis
… it was about the land…a tale of love and loss and hope…
Hamilton Ingram looked out
across the fertile Georgia bottomlands that were Moccasin Hollows, seeing
holdings it had taken generations of Ingrams to build. No drop of slave sweat ever shed in its
creation. It was about the land…his
trust, his duty to preserve it for the generation of Ingrams to come…
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 Hollows, their
rustic dogtrot ancestral home, a sprawling non-slave plantation 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 might be impossible to stand before.
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Excerpt
Bessie's
head jerked around, "...them gun shots."
A stooped-over Sarah looked up,
"What?"
"Gun shots..." Bessie put down the box of jars and headed
toward the cellar door. "From the
direction where the men be. We gittin'
upstairs, an' gittin' now."
Sarah's heart pounded as they came
up out of the cellar and looked in the direction of more shots.
"Come on..." Bessie hurried into the pantry where she
reached down the powder horn from the top shelf, then the rifle and pistols.
"Git 'em ready with all that shootin'.
Till we know different, we make sure two-legged low-downs don't sneak to
the house."
Sarah rushed to the window and
murmured, "Hamilton..." She
feared for him, for their child, for all
of them. "Surely you don't suppose
it's Federals?"
"Might be better if'n it is
'stead of what else be skulkin' in them woods.
Stay away from the winder, an' finish rammin' this powder."
Sarah poured the ball and powder
firm, rammed it, pulled the rammer out, and whispered, "Bessie
listen...birds stopped singing."
"Except that cawin' crow seein'
somethin' what don't belong."
Sarah took another quick peek,
"There's several horses, but I don't see any riders. Mules are still hitched. I don't see anyone at the plow, but there's
men on among the trees."
"You watch the front
door." Bessie snugged the pistol in
her apron pocket. "I cover the
back. Anybody tries comin' through the
dogtrot door or through the parlor, we back into here, keep 'em from circlin'
us."
"What about Papa
Rundell?" Sarah's stomach was
queasy.
"He keep his rifle ready. Anyone bust in his room be dead 'fore they
twitch a hair."
With a crash the kitchen door flew
open. Sarah brought her rifle up and
fired, the shot splintering door and jamb.
The sound thundered through the house.
Bessie's rifle steadied dead-on.
The silhouetted head and shoulders
ducked into a hunch and Hamilton yelled, "Sarah!" His hand smeared at stinging blood-speckled
splinters of wood along his cheek.
About the Author
With postgraduate degrees and
faculty appointments in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught
graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. In addition to professional articles and texts on
chordate neuroembryology, Hawk has authored
several works of fiction.
Hawk began writing mysteries for
his school newspaper. His works of fiction, historical love stories, science
fiction and mystery-thrillers are not genre-centered, but plot-character
driven, and reflect his southwest upbringing in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel
nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War
Fiction, the IPPY, and the Writers Notes Book Award, details the family
bloodlines of his serial protagonist in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series… murder and mayhem with a touch of romance.
Vault of Secrets, the first book in
the Ingram series, was followed by Nymrod
Resurrection, Blood and Gold, and The Lady of Corpsewood Manor. All have
received national attention. Walking the Pet is Hawk’s latest release
in the Ingram series with another mystery-thriller work scheduled for release
in 2014. The Bleikovat Event, the
first volume in The Cairns of Sainctuarie
science fiction series, was released in 2012. Its sequel, The Missing Planets, will be released late 2014.
"Without question, Hawk is one of the most gifted
and imaginative writers I have had the pleasure to represent. His reading fans
have something special to look forward to—whether it is historical romance that
takes place during the Civil War, science fiction that involves other
mysterious worlds, or mystery/suspense in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series that
takes Hawk’s main character, Navy ex-SEAL/part-time private investigator Craige
Ingram, from his South Carolina ancestral home of Moccasin Hollow to the dirty
backrooms of the nation's capital and across Europe and the Middle East."
Barbara Casey, President
Barbara Casey Literary Agency
Social Links
Website- www.hawkmackinney.net
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Thank you for hosting the Book Tour for my trade paperback release of my historical romance title, Moccasin Trace. For my readers who follow the Craige Ingram Mystery Series, Moccasin Trace, set during the Civil War, provides the Scottish-Normandr bloodlines and background of protagonist SEAL/PI Craige Ingram in the Ingram present-day thriller/mystery series. Moccasin Trace is available in hardback and Kindle.
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