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King Cotton III: Jack & the Ripper was the gold medal winner for best historical fiction in the 2025 CIPA EVVY Awards. It is the third entry in a series of novels documenting the exploits of Jack Bailey, the irresistible scoundrel that charmed his way through the Civil War, helped himself to a share of the Confederate Treasury, distilled...

In the spring of 2023, a Kentucky farmer was plowing his fields when he noticed the earth behind him begin to sparkle in the sun. He jumped off his tractor and discovered that he had just unearthed hundreds of beautiful gold coins. Confederate gold coins, as it happened, the newest of which were dated 1863. And no one knows how or why they got...

King Cotton, a finalist in both the 2023 National Indie Excellence Awards and Readers' Favorite INDIES Book of the Year, is a historical fiction novel that covers all four years the U.S. Civil War. The main character, Jack Bailey, is a 24-year-old cotton exporter working out of Charleston, South Carolina, for his father’s business in Liverpool....