In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree By Michael McLellan
In the Shadow of the
Hanging Tree
By Michael McLellan
Genre: Historical
Fiction
Release Date: January
2017
Henry was born into slavery; his young life
spent working in tobacco drying sheds on Missouri plantations. Freed at the
onset of the Civil War, he’s alone, starving, and on the run from Confederate
militiamen.
Five
years later, Clara Hanfield, the
daughter of a powerful New York shipping magnate, escapes her tyrannical father
and travels west in pursuit of John Elliot, the man she loves. John, a U.S.
Army lieutenant, was sent to the Dakota Territory where he discovers a
government conspiracy to incite an all-out war with the Indians; a
war meant to finally eliminate them as
an obstacle to the westward expansion.
Henry
finds himself caught in the middle.
Aided
by Clara, John, and his native ally, Standing Elk, Henry must battle hatred,
greed, and the ghosts of his past during this turbulent and troubling time in
American history.
About the Author
Michael’s
love of books began with Beverly Cleary’s The
Mouse and the Motorcycle when he was
seven-years-old. Later influenced by the works of John Steinbeck, Harper Lee,
Stephen King, and Cormac McCarthy, Michael developed his style of storytelling.
A self-proclaimed blue-collar writer, he draws on his experiences and
observations to bring relevant and compelling topics to life.
Michael lives in Northern California, and when he’s not writing, he can usually be found wandering around the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
His
body of work includes the 2014 novel After
and Again, the 2015 novel American
Flowers, and the shorts Joe Price
and Anywhere But Here. Michael’s
newest novel, Shadow of the Hanging Tree,
is expected to be published in January 2017 by Sweet Candy Press.
Dear Laura,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for giving up your time and the space on your blog to post my book information. I'm truly grateful for the amazing support you and other literary bloggers selflessly give to authors.
Happy holidays, and best wishes,
Michael