by Kathleen WallsPublish: Jan 17, 2011Series: War in the WestHistorical Fiction
Book Overview
Under a Bloody Flag
In Kansas and Missouri, the War Between the States started long before Fort Sumter. Daniel Fitzgerald, a Southerner who tries to settle Kansas and leave behind his tormented Louisiana roots, soon finds that in Kansas Territory you have to take sides or die. Taking sides doesn’t lessen the chances o... f a violent death, it just determines who is going to try and kill you.
For Massachusetts-born Rebecca Styles, who comes to Kansas to insure freedom for slaves, the choice is easy. Or is it? When she meets Daniel, she is forced to take a new look at all the ideas she took for granted, like all Southerners are evil and all abolitionists are good.
Daniel’s half-brother and former slave, André, knows his first loyalty belongs to his friends and family, not a lofty ideal, but he can’t sit by and do nothing when injustice stares him in the face.
Throw into the mix all the larger-than-life characters who played a part in the sectional violence which led the nation into its bloodiest war and you have a novel with all the drama of the era. You’ll meet James Lane, John Brown, JEB Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Joseph Shelby, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and the other men and women who have shaped this nation into what it is today.
You will never look at any of them as just characters in a history book again.
This is a historical novel unlike any you have ever read before. It is a blend of history, action and romance. Facts read like fiction, and fiction could have been fact. It is a story of a time that changed a nation and a handful of people who lived and died in our nation’s most colorful era.read more
BIOGRAPHY Kathleen Walls is the author of Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways, Finding Florida’s Phantoms, Last Step, Man Hunt- The Eric Rudolph Story, Kudzu, Tax Sale Tactics Hosts With Ghosts: Haunted Historic Hotels in the Southeast and Wild About Florida, the War in the West Series Under a Bloody Flag, Under a Black Flag, For Want ... of a Ship, and Missing—Gone but not Forgotten, a fictionalized version of a true abduction that occurred near her home in Florida in 2009 and has never been solved. Her latest fiction are Realtor Mystery series starting with The Tenant from Hell, All published by Global Authors Publications (GAP). Kathleen is the publisher/owner of GAP. Several of her books are now audio books and most are also ebooks. Last Step was made into a movie by Forbes Productions.
She is currently working on American Music: Born in the USA, a history of American music.
She is also a successful travel writer/photographer who has been published in numerous publications as well as her own online travel magazine, American Roads (www.americanroads.net ) and several online tour guides.
She is a member of International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA).
Her dual B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Central Florida gives her a good insight into human behavior which is very helpful in writing realistic novels. You can visit her website at http://katywalls.com/read more