Book Info
Title- Moccasin Trace
By- Hawk MacKinney
Genre- Historical Romance
Published By- ArcheBooks Publishing
Publication Date- March 2014
Blurb
… 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.
Excerpt
He
took special care to have quiet times for Sarah, 'specially since night before
last. He got real excited when she told him she might be with child again. She hadn't been sleeping well, often wanted
him to rub her aching back. Now he knew
why.
Threadbare clothes and unshorn hair
gave Hamilton Bothington Graeme Ingram the look of a run-down, unkempt derelict
instead of heir to one of the largest non-slave plantations in Saint George
Parish. He ducked under what was left of
the split-rail fence with its crooked corner post. Rails and most posts had long gone up in the
smoke of hoards of campfires.
"Step wide." He reached back to help her through. "I don't want the mother of our children
to step on a canebrake rattler catchin' sun on this fine day."
"Lord have mercy." Sarah clutched her bonnet in her hand so as
not to get it snagged in the coiled tangle of wire. "I suppose it's up to me to get used to
your hoverin' over me again."
"Yep," he grinned. "Reckon my favorite sweetheart will have
to do just that."
"Your favorite
sweetheart?" She giggled, wrinkled
her nose at him. "Just listen to
you and your Ingram fiddle-faddled talk."
He grinned as she brushed back
strands of the golden hair Hamilton
"C'mon..." Her voice lilted soft, and she squeezed her
grip on his hand. "Let's
hurry."
Her singular tenderness refused to
let the devastation around them blight their few alone-times. In the spoliation around them, such times
when they managed to make it just the two of them held a more-than-special
meaning.
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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.
Links
Website- www.hawkmackinney.net
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