Monteith's Mountains
Death Stalks the Southern Appalachians
The Southern Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the 20th century provide the backdrop for this dark tale of cultural transformation, serial murder, love, loss, and ultimate triumph in a land on the edge of irrevocable change.
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Walker Tom Monteith lives by his own laws, makes his own rules, and loves the beautiful women he murders. But more than anything, Walker Tom loves the Great Smoky Mountains. He built his home from their trees, grows his food in their dirt, takes water from the pure springs that bubble out of their rocks, hunts and fishes their bounty. They are his comfort, his solitude, and his refuge. They are his mountains.
Taylor Henry, the independent young woman who dreams of adventure in the high mountains, signs on as manager of Line Camp # 9, a logging camp that houses and feeds the timber crews who are cutting the virgin forests. It is there that Taylor finds the life she's been seeking and begins to dream of even greater mountains to climb.
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Tick Henry, who spent years tracking bad men in the Oklahoma Territory, comes home to the mountains and encounters an evil that will ultimately take him years to confront. Along the way he finds hope, renewal, and the ghosts of his own past when he comes face to face with the daughter he barely knows.
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Goodman Brant has left his Mohawk home in Ontario and journeyed to the land of the Cherokees seeking not only his past, but his future. While crossing a ridge one morning in early May of 1902, he witnesses an event that sets this tale in motion and ultimately creates the only ending that can satisfy our sense of justice.
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The author ties together old mountain legends, the historical record of the developing logging industry, and research into the history of his own family with a vivid imagination and the ability to create events as frighteningly real as today's news.