William

“William” is the action packed sequel of “The Saga of the Brothers Mountain.” The fictional tale begins in 1844 as it follows the Mountain family and their journey through the untamed Territory of Wisconsin and into the newly formed State of Minnesota.

The family, originally from the small farming village of Killeagh, in County Cork Ireland, is forced to go into hiding in order to escape the wrath of English landlord Charles Webb. Webb sent mercenaries to America to find and kill the Mountain family as retribution for destroying his compound back in Ireland. In an unexpected turn of events, the Mountain family survived the attack and killed the mercenaries. With the fear of continual reprisal from Webb, the family moved and secretly settled in the newly formed town of Hudson, in Wisconsin Territory.

The Mountain family quickly learned that lawlessness was a prevalent way of life in their new country, America. Instead of finding a peaceful existence, they found nothing but turmoil and potential death.

In order to protect themselves from the dangers in America, the family had become reliant on William, the youngest member of the brothers Mountain. William, while a youngster living in Ireland, had trained himself to become an expert with a knife, in order to provide fresh game for his family. In his wildest dreams he could have never envisioned that those skills would transform him from hunter to assassin. William's skills were tested time and time again by renegade Indians, lawless fur traders and slave traders, who all threatened the survival of the Mountain family.

The family continued to grow, adding mixed race children, Indian children and castoffs from homeless families to make a tight-knit family structure. The goal of this large extended family: to find a home where prejudice and lawlessness did not prevail.

Along the way, the ever expanding Mountain family experienced death to its members, Indian up-risings and the Civil War. The action is non-stop as the Mountain family struggled against all odds to find a permanent home in lawless America.

☆ Honorable Mention - General Fiction - 2015 Hollywood Book Festival