Who's Who Among Texas Authors, their biographies, publications, publishers and information of interest to writers.

Solomon Seney asks little: the same status in his family that his older brother Jonathan enjoys, a pretty girl to wed, adventure on the frontier, and escape from the most horrible nemesis a man ever encountered. "MacDuff headed for the Seney plantation, pulling his cloak closer to his body and looking hard at the hell-smoked sky, the moon nowhere in sight. Blizzards were something MacDuff knew all about, but this weather was foreign to him. The wind blew as if fulfilling the wrath of God. Rain pelted his face, giving it a washing like it never had, only it dangled in his beard, holding the...

Sentenced to be hanged the following morning, Richard Makepeace effect a brilliant escape, only to discover with his new freedom comes an obligation to chance his wicked behavior. His flight to escape the Law turns into a spiritual journey, while he is constantly tempted to return to his old life. His story is balanced against that of Esakka, a slave who wants only to save up enough money to buy his freedom from his owner, and to keep his virginity until he meets the right woman. Haunting both men is MacDuff, a crazed Englishman who wears a dead raven in his pigtail.