Wayward Son - Hurd, Michael Paul

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Résumé :
The Haskins family moved from Virginia to Missouri in the 1830s. Virgil, the eventual patriarch, was a successful horse breeder. Despite his success and marrying the love of his life, Virgil had a dark side that proved to be his undoing in Virginia and almost cost him his life in Missouri. This book chronicles the family's origins in Virginia, its unexpected move to Missouri along with the family's slaves, and the effects that the Civil War had on family dynamics. This book is the fourth in the author's Lineage Series. Although it is a standalone novel, it has connections to both Books One and Three in the series.

Biographie:
Michael Paul Hurd was born in Michigan in 1959. He is the son of Paul S. Hurd and Carolyn J. Hurd (both deceased). Married to his wife, Sandy, since 1980, they have two sons and three grandchildren; however, their eldest son, Adam, passed away from cancer in 2010.

During his formative years, Michael Hurd lived in Michigan, Virginia, and New Hampshire. He graduated from Hopkinton High School, Contoocook, NH, in 1977.

Hurd is a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving from 1978 until 1992, and was Honorably Discharged as a Technical Sergeant. While on active duty, he earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Maryland/European Division during an assignment to England. Once honorably discharged, he was employed for another 26 years as a civilian employee of the United States Government and retired in 2018 along with his wife. It is during this time that Hurd developed a love for the written word and the deep research that was needed to author first book, Lineage. For Hurd, that work simply fell together after finding numerous anecdotes about his family history during the research. Work on Lineage started in late 2018 and was completed in February of 2019, with a Second Edition being released in May, 2019. The Lineage series was inspired in part by Sara Donati's Wilderness series and the many works of James Michener.