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Moccasin Trace by Hawk MacKinney

Posted on August 30, 2023 By Jenna Rideout No Comments on Moccasin Trace by Hawk MacKinney

…it was about the land.

Welcome to one of the August 30th stops on the blog tour for Moccasin Trace by Hawk MacKinney with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.

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About the Book

Moccasin Trace
by Hawk MacKinney

Published 2 July 2023
Speaking Volumes

Genre: Historical Fiction
Page Count: 300
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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 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. Against this rustic idyll of hard work and gracious living comes inflexible discord and divided loyalties that mutilate ties of blood and bond, tearing at their lives as smoke and battle no longer so faraway crashes and maims ever closer. Ahead of the on-coming ranks of Blue, foragers and bumlers burn, loot, scavenge and kill. Hamilton faces agonizing sacrifices with dreadful consequences. With little else than his wits, he tries anything to protect Sarah, their unborn child, his sickly father, and Sarah’s family.

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Excerpt

Like the proper exemplary young lady, a bored Sarah quietly sat in the drawing room, daintily sipped her tea, thinking how they’d be here for hours with this meaningless chitchat, and wishing she was out riding, wishing she was anywhere but here.

Bessie stood to one side, tryin’ not to think of Sam.  ‘Membered Mistress Corinth’a calling these folks merchants.  Mistress was right, these were uppity folk with no manners.

“It’s understandable you’re being so busy,” Abigail sighed.  “There’s simply not enough time to do all the things a body must do to get ready for the Saint Catherine’s Christmas Ball.”  She placed her Wedgwood cup and saucer just so on the marble-top tea table.

“Of course,” Corinthia fastened on a charming smile.  “Charlestown is all the talk.”

Abigail leaned close, intimate, “I spoke with Jonathan.  He wouldn’t hear of taking time off, spending the season in Charlestown.  Heaven knows it would’ve done him a world of good.  I told him if the Greers and Ingrams are going, the very least we could certainly do is be in Charlestown to welcome our Queensborough friends.”  Her immaculate French maid hurried in with more tea and an array of sweets.

Corinthia sipped with her smile fixed in place…showy hanger-on.  Being invited to Charlestown’s Saint Catherine’s Ball the week of Christmas was all the talk, not only of Georgia and South Carolina, but considerably beyond.  Invitations had come through Andrew’s cotton and tobacco friends.  Corinthia wasn’t about to countenance having anyone think the Whiteheads were their associates.  It was strain enough remaining gracious with such interlopers.

“I surely understand why you’re so very excited.  Everyone will be there,” Corinthia said.

“I was so relieved they arrived yesterday.”  Abigail Bothwell Whitehead fairly beamed.  “When your man dropped off your note telling me you would call, I was all in a twitter.  At the time our invitations hadn’t arrived.  I immediately sent Jonathan straight to the post office.”  She rolled her eyes in mock relief.  With an insipid smile through a pinched mouth and puckered lips, she gloated, “I was so reassured when he came back with them.”  She could hardly contain herself, enjoying herself immensely — the perfect dig at uppity Corinthia Greer.  “It will be so grand.  Anyone who’s anybody will be there.”

Sarah’s expression matched her mother’s composure; Corinthia’s attention never left Abigail.  Sarah knew Abigail and how venomous this artless woman could be.

About the Author

In addition to professional articles and texts on chordate neuroembryology, Hawk MacKinney has authored several works of fiction—historical love stories, science fiction and mystery-thrillers. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award, details the family bloodlines of his protagonist in the Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series: Hidden Chamber of Death, Westobou Gold, Dead Gold, Curse of the Ancients, and Blood of the Dragonfly.

Hawk’s science fiction novels include The Bleikovat Event, Vol I in The Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series, followed by Vol II, The Missing Planets, and Vol III, Inanna Phantom.

Hawk MacKinney served in the US Navy for over 20 years.  While serving as a Navy Commander, he also had a career as a full-time faculty member at several major state medical facilities. He earned two postgraduate degrees with studies in languages and history. He has taught postgraduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem, Israel. He now makes his home in Augusta, Georgia, where he writes full-time.

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  1. Marisela Zuniga says:
    August 30, 2023 at 5:35 AM

    This sounds like a good book

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    1. Hawk says:
      August 30, 2023 at 12:26 PM

      Marisela ZUNIGA – Here’s hoping it makes for U a good read. Thanx for stopping by…
      Hawk MacK
      http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com

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  2. Goddess Fish Promotions says:
    August 30, 2023 at 9:24 AM

    We appreciate you hosting today!

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  3. Hawk says:
    August 30, 2023 at 12:24 PM

    Westveil Publishing – Your support in hosting Moccasin Trace is much appreciated.
    Hawk MacKinney
    http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com

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