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M.J. Hayes is the author of five stand-alone novels including his newest release: The Two Fathers of Walter Red Blanket. His books are noted for their attention to detail, historical accuracy, and true to life characters.





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Son of the Mountain

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A Long Way from Virginia

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The Devil's Hand

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Ten Years from Beaumont

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My newest title:
The Two Fathers of Walter Red Blanket
is now available on Amazon

Two fathers, one son. Two civilizations, one country. The clash of cultures was inevitable, the outcome foreseeable, and the ending tragic.
When young Walter Lange is captured by the great Comanche chief Tatsiwoo to replace his own dead son, a chain of events is set in motion that will mirror the downfall of his people' Read more of this blog post »
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“Freedom was everything to Abraham, and I reckon that makes sense being reared in bondage such as he was, but it was larger than that. Freedom seemed to be a part of him, like it was built in. As much a part of him as his skin or hair or eyes”
M.J. Hayes, Son of the Mountain

“Maybe something happens to a man at that age when life had always worked out the way he had wanted it, or made it. When he had been able to take it like a block of clay and mold it in the way he saw fit, or grab it like a sapling and force it to bend to his will. When he had been life's master, and not the other way around.”
M.J. Hayes, The Devil's Hand
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“Some events in our lives are so disturbing, or unsettling, that even when they are over they prevent us from ever going back to the way we were before, back to 'normal.' Whether we like it or not, we as people are forever changed.”
M.J. Hayes, The Devil's Hand

“The woods can be strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you didn't notice.”
Jim Harrison-Brown Dog

“while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.”
Harold Bell Wright, The Shepherd of the Hills

“There are some things you don't ask a man. Not if you respect him. He's entitled to stake his claim to what he considers private to himself alone.”
Jack Schaefer, Shane

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
Louis L'Amour

“All the same he got a pinch of misery, thinking, just as he had sometimes in Kentucky when he'd be out in the woods, feeling good that he was alone, with everything to himself, and then he would spy someone and it would all be spoiled, as if the country wasn't his any more, or the woods or the quiet.”
A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky

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