"A River Away" is not merely a chronological trip through time by ordinary characters. Instead it tells the story of the author's fourth great grandfather who intimately knew the historical figures portrayed in this novel of love, intrigue and survival.
(prologue)Samuel was not certain he lived until he felt the weight of a Indian upon his back. The savage thrust his knee between Samuel's shoulder blades, seized a clump of his hair and yanked back his head. An excruciating sliver of pain sliced around his hairline and met at the nape of his neck. He screamed and prayed it would soon be finished. The Indian ripped away his scalp as one would skin a rabbit.
Samuels last recollection was the savage'd war hoop mingling with the others in the forest.
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.
Marooned is the 1860's saga of Justin Radcliff, a young American, who is beaten and thrown overboard by his evil twin brother, Edward.
Kolya, a handsome Black man and new leader of the transplanted Zulu tribe there, finds Justin caught in hi
