Friday, June 05, 2026

Virtual Excerpt Tour & Giveaway: Moccasin Trace by Hawk MacKinney


MOCCASIN TRACE
by
Hawk MacKinney

Historical Fiction
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Publication Date: July 2, 2023
Page count: 346 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

…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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ENJOY AN EXCERPT:

Sarah toyed with making Hamilton jealous, and on an afternoon sashay stroll in Queensborough Towne, she made sure he caught her flirting with a casual familiarity.  Unlike most of her other young acourting squires, his aloof stare at her was thunderingly silent.  For the next few weeks Hamilton kept himself even busier around the Hollows.  It wasn't at all what Sarah expected, and she never forgot her miscalculation.  Some days later when she rode over to the Hollows, she received another eye-opener.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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 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.


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