Synopsis
The name Doc Holliday conjures images of the Wild West and the shootout at the OK Corral, but before he was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days of the Old South with family links to the author of Gone with the Wind. Now this amazing story is told for the first time in the Southern Son Trilogy.
The story begins with Inheritance, set during the turbulent times of the American Civil War, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his beloved mother. His only confidant is his cousin Mattie, his childhood sweetheart who shares his memories of plantation life and better days before the War. But Mattie isn't around to comfort him when tragedy strikes and John Henry's young hero-worship turns to bitter anger.
As the Confederacy falls, John Henry becomes a troubled teenager and joins in with a gang of vigilantes trying to chase the Reconstruction Yankees out of their small Georgia town. But when a murderous plot brings threats of military prison, he vows to change his reckless ways and leaves Georgia to attend dental school in Philadelphia, hoping to come home as a respected professional man worthy of asking for his cousin Mattie's hand.
However, when he returns from two years in the North to begin dental practice in Atlanta he finds his courtship beset with challenges. There are family intrigues, lies and revelations, rivals for Mattie's affections and a violent encounter that changes everything.
Inheritance is the first novel in an epic tale of heroes and villains, dreams lost and found, families broken and reconciled, of sin and recompense and the redeeming power of love.
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About the Author
Victoria Wilcox was born in California to a pioneer Hollywood film industry family. She began her college career as a Medieval English History major before receiving a degree in English Literature and doing graduate work in Playwriting. In her professional life she has been a teacher of English and composition at the college level and worked as a technical writer and instructional designer for industry and universities. Her writing on the history of the Old South and the Wild West has been featured in True West Magazine, North Georgia Journal, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Review
"As a biographer of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, I can only be envious of Victoria Wilcox's telling of his story. The facts of a life so intriguing-and the gaps in the facts-are cruel dampers to the historian, limited as he is by the record. Wilcox pursues the truth in a powerful and moving novel that is not tainted by the legend of its central character, trapped by the documentary evidence of his life, or tempted to ignore history. She tells his story with an intimate voice that is surprisingly fresh and compelling. Here, Doc is alive and his world real-wonderfully so." --Dr. Gary Roberts, bestselling author of "Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend" "This wonderfully written novel brings together one of the great stories of the American Frontier. Author Wilcox has done a superb job through fiction of creating a sense of time and place and giving us an intriguing look at one of the most controversial figures in the West-Dr. John Henry Holliday." --Casey Tefertiller, author of "Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend"
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