Bloody Harvest at Long Canes Creek (Tuckaseegee Chronicles #20)

From Publishers Weekly

“Set in the American colonies in 1750, this is a tale of discovery, acceptance, war, love, and cultural awareness. A realistic historical piece, this novel is fraught with danger and heartbreak, but buoyed by romance and the hope for survival into future generations. A meticulously researched, exhaustive look at the uneasy coexistence of early settlers and native populations, the novel fully immerses the reader in a foreign world. Historical fiction buffs especially will want to know what happens to the MacNeills and the Cherokees in the next installment. The prose is flawless and the characters are robust and believable. Impressive.”


About the TUCKASEEGEE CHRONICLES
(Historical Novels of the Great Smoky Mountains)

Devastated by Scotland’s failed uprising against England in 1745, exiled highland warrior Ruary MacNeill transports his wife Elspeth, two children, and three orphaned nephews to America to operate a trading post and horse-breeding enterprise in the Great Smoky Mountains, the Southern Appalachian heartland of the large and powerful Cherokee Nation.

Set in America’s first frontier during the French and Indian War, the TUCKASEEGEE CHRONICLES (1750-1764) are a long series of short novels, a multigenerational saga following the Scottish MacNeills as they interact with the Cherokee during a time of political upheaval when the Cherokee Nation is at war with other Indian tribes and has become a pawn in the conflict between England and France for control of the Atlantic seaboard.

The MacNeills gradually discover that Cherokee clans are not unlike Scottish clans, both culturally and spiritually, and that friendship, love, and loyalty can cross cultural and racial boundaries.


BLOODY HARVEST AT LONG CANES CREEK: Book Twenty of the Tuckaseegee Chronicles continues the saga of the MacNeills and their Cherokee friends and neighbors in the Tuckaseegee River Valley. Mairy MacNeill gives birth to Baby Hannah at Am Braighe; upon the death of the old Ouku Kanagatoga (Old Hop),Young Kanagatoga is elected Ouku; and Standing Wolf and Dragging Canoe join Classati, Man Killer of Nequassee, and Dreadful Warrior, Kittagunsta of Iolee, in attacking the Long Canes Creek settlement. The English Fort Loudoun in the Overhills is held hostage by the Cherokee; treachery and tragedy occur at Fort Prince George in the Lower Towns, which intensifies the Cherokee-English War; and the Cherokee warriors’ siege of Fort Ninety Six results in further casualties on both sides. South Carolina Governor William Lyttelton embargoes trade with the Cherokee and arranges through General Jeffrey Amherst for more than two thousand troops from New York and South Carolina to amass in Charles Town under Colonel Archibald Montgomery with orders to relieve the forts and “chastise the Cherokee into a lasting peace”; Great Warrior Agan’stata strikes the war pole, calling for warriors to gather at Crow’s Pass to block the invasion of the English military into the Middle Towns of the Cherokee Nation; and Standing Wolf knows the lives of his family and friends will be changed forever.


About the Author

Betty Cloer Wallace is a tree farmer in Western North Carolina and a former teacher of writing and literature at a North Carolina community college that serves the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the largest concentration of Scottish descendants outside of Scotland. Her British ancestors settled in the Great Smoky Mountains in the 1700s and intermingled with the Cherokee who, along with their predecessors, have populated the region for thousands of years.