Borderland

by Greg Hunt

While a Young Nation Struggles to Survive, One Family Divides In Hate and Bloodshed… Borderland, Book One, of The Borderland Trilogy. Will Hartman’s sons and daughters were a fierce and determined American family, with a legacy of honor and a bold dream to build new lives on the Missouri frontier. But long before America declared itself at war over the issue of slavery, Kansas and Missouri were in pitched battle. John Brown’s bloody raids into Missouri were answered with retaliatory strikes at the homes of the abolitionists. The Hartman family was caught up in the division on opposite sides. Soon their anger burned as hotly as their passions . . . and Hartman blood soaked the earth, as brother faced brother across a gulf of hatred on the Borderland.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2020

Reviews

[Jonathan Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having recently written a non-fiction book about Quantrill's Raid of Olathe, Kansas during the border war, I was interested to see how Greg Hunt handled the topic from a fiction perspective.
I thought he did an excellent job of showing that it was very hard for the residents of the border counties to stay neutral.
He accurately depicts a character with every intention of staying out of the fray but eventually being forced to take a side.
The author throws in enough interaction with the historic figures of the era into the book to keep history buffs like me happy.

I will be purchasing the next two in the series.