Grog Wars, Dos

by Anne Sweazy-Kulju

Grog Wars, Dos is the stand-alone part-2 of a 2-part epic adventure in historical fiction. It is ten years later, America is rumbling with the onset of Civil War, and Burke Kaufmann's eldest nephew, August, continues the Kaufmann/Castle Beer story...

Patriarch Burke Kaufmann's nephew, August, becomes embroiled in a horrible incident when the baby of his young girlfriend is found murdered. August's father begs Burke to get his son safely out of Portland, and luck shines. The Austrian Prince Maximilian, recently crowned Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon, suddenly finds himself short a master-brewer. August agrees to go, but only to find Kancy's cowardly brother, Pearl, and punish him for his role in the tragedy.

Max is an emperor without a country; Charlotte is a mother without a child. Both are seduced into making Mexico their family, their hope. When global politics threaten to tear the monarchs and their country apart, will August abandon vengeance to save them?

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 30, 2017

About the author

Hi, I'm Anne Sweazy-Kulju. I am the daughter of a history teacher and granddaughter to an Irish yarn-spinner. I stir a few psychic abilities into my storytelling, to offer book lovers unique adventures in award-winning historical fiction.

AWARD UPDATE:

"Grog Wars, Dos" is a Finalist for the Chanticleer's International Book Awards, Dante Rosetti Award for YA (November 2018)

"Grog Wars, Dos", won the Silver Medal in Literary Classics International Book Awards for YA (November 2018) — my second silver!

"Grog Wars, Dos" is a Finalist in the 2018 Publishers Weekly Book Life Prize for Fiction.

“Reap” (unpublished creative short), co-authored by daughter Laura Kulju, is Quarter -Finalist in the 2017 Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Contest!

“Grog Wars” is a Finalist for “Best in Category” in Chanticleer's International Book Awards, Dante Rosetti Award for YA (December 2016)

"Grog Wars", is winner of Literary Classics International Book Awards' Silver Medal for YA [October 2015)

"Grog Wars" is a Finalist in the 2016 Publishers Weekly Book Life Prize for Fiction.

“Bodie” is winner of The Willa Awards silver medal (2014)







I am an award winning author of adventures in historical fiction for YA and Mature audiences, alike. My books have earned Book of the Moment, Book of the Week and What to Read Next reader polls, WritersType International's gold medal, the silver medal at the WILLA Literary Awards, 4 Readers Favorites 5-Star Review Medallions, and has earned endorsements/Seals of Approval from both Literary Classics International Book Review and the Historical Novels Society.

Check with me now and then because I give a lot of free stuff away (usually at book signings, but when the weather turns I tend to do more online giveaways). Try my website at: http://AnneSweazyKulju.net (or http://www.Historical-Horse-Feathers.com). I post some pretty cool historical trivia, chapters from my WIP, and some fun stories.

Reviews

[Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

In book 2 of the Grog Wars series our protagonist is bound for Mexico where the presiding Austrian Monarch declares himself in need of a brew master. Sweazy-Kulju can spin a yarn like nobody’s business and that’s never been more apparent than with the hilarious antics of Max and Charlotte: “two of the most unfortunate characters ever snubbed by history”. In this second book, which reads well as a stand-alone, readers are instantly drawn into the old west town of Portland, Oregon in 1861 for a necktie sociable. “The media loved a good hanging.” From one page to the next one can’t help but become immersed in the sites, sounds and dialects of the region, be it the Oregon of the old West, or down south in Mexico. Sweazy-Kulju adeptly skips from one character to another with perfect aplomb. Readers are sure to revel in this humorous tale which is a light-hearted and highly entertaining read.