King Cotton

King Cotton 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. During that period of history, cotton was the oil of the day, accounting for 60 percent of total U.S....

In 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...