Moccasin Trace Tour

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Goddess Fish Promotions Presents

Moccasin Trace

by Hawk MacKinney

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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.

“We did it! We did it!” an excited Ben yelled at the top of his lungs. “We did it!” He yanked NellyB to a skidding stiff-legged halt. “Beauregard took Sumter!” Out of the saddle and breathing hard, his fist clenched a wrinkled front page of the Charleston Courier. “Lincoln asked Virginia for troops, called what Carolina done sedition. Like Carolinians got no say to it. Virginia called for volunteers, arming her state militia, claims any Federal invasion of a state violates the constitution. Georgia Governor is calling up Georgia’s Militia—Papa’s signing up more volunteers for the Queensborough Cavalry. Yankies’ll back off once they see we’re ready to fight. If me’n you don’t hurry it’ll be over an’ done with before we have to be home for spring planting.” He shook the newspaper like it was a call to a fun-time fancy dress shindy. “We get to take our own horses. I’ll take NellyB.”

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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.