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Something Worth Fighting For
Upstate South Carolina's tranquil, green countryside was seemingly overnight transformed into a hellhole that fateful summer in 1776.
Whilst colonial delegates sipped fine French champagne in Philadelphia and discussed and debated upon a Declaration of Independence, an English supply train under the command of ruthless infantry captain Jonathon Malcolm of the English city Bristol crossed over the Blue Ridge and into the South Carolina backcountry, terrorizing and scorching non-English-allied Indian villages and colonial settlements.
But the villainous infantry captain really bit off more than he could chew after beating an eleven-year-old boy to death and stabbing his father to death. He might have bet on retaliation from a Cherokee raiding party or a vengeful colonial militia, but he would have done well to bargain on two lone teenaged avengers.
Sixteen-year old Chance McCarthy reckoned that he would continue cattle farming like his father before him. But when these redcoats turn his world upside down, Chance and his childhood Indian friend Long Stalk decide to hit the vengeance road. Chance shares a forbidden bond with his adopted sister, Laura, but she must stay behind while her beau-turned-brother seeks justice for the redcoats' wrongdoings. In order to save his family, colony, and country, Chance will take the Revolutionary War straight to the redcoat's backyard to avenge his family.
Ryan Fleming was born and reared in South Carolina, where a large chunk of this novel is set. Fleming graduated in the spring of 2013 at the age of seventeen after being homeschooled since second grade. During his scholastic career, Fleming read many historical fiction novels, particularly American military fiction and westerns. Little did he know that these would be the driving force behind his writing endeavors.
Fleming began writing short stories for friends and family to read at the age of eleven, but his writing career really kicked into high gear when visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield in his thirteenth summer. His first published work Galling Fire, which was published the year of his graduation, began to take shape at that moment.
This novel is partially based upon a family legend of Fleming's ancestors, who were some of the first pioneers to settle the South Carolina backcountry.
Whilst colonial delegates sipped fine French champagne in Philadelphia and discussed and debated upon a Declaration of Independence, an English supply train under the command of ruthless infantry captain Jonathon Malcolm of the English city Bristol crossed over the Blue Ridge and into the South Carolina backcountry, terrorizing and scorching non-English-allied Indian villages and colonial settlements.
But the villainous infantry captain really bit off more than he could chew after beating an eleven-year-old boy to death and stabbing his father to death. He might have bet on retaliation from a Cherokee raiding party or a vengeful colonial militia, but he would have done well to bargain on two lone teenaged avengers.
Sixteen-year old Chance McCarthy reckoned that he would continue cattle farming like his father before him. But when these redcoats turn his world upside down, Chance and his childhood Indian friend Long Stalk decide to hit the vengeance road. Chance shares a forbidden bond with his adopted sister, Laura, but she must stay behind while her beau-turned-brother seeks justice for the redcoats' wrongdoings. In order to save his family, colony, and country, Chance will take the Revolutionary War straight to the redcoat's backyard to avenge his family.
Ryan Fleming was born and reared in South Carolina, where a large chunk of this novel is set. Fleming graduated in the spring of 2013 at the age of seventeen after being homeschooled since second grade. During his scholastic career, Fleming read many historical fiction novels, particularly American military fiction and westerns. Little did he know that these would be the driving force behind his writing endeavors.
Fleming began writing short stories for friends and family to read at the age of eleven, but his writing career really kicked into high gear when visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield in his thirteenth summer. His first published work Galling Fire, which was published the year of his graduation, began to take shape at that moment.
This novel is partially based upon a family legend of Fleming's ancestors, who were some of the first pioneers to settle the South Carolina backcountry.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 13, 2015
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