Afton Mountain

About the Book

In June, 1862, three brothers from Afton Mountain, are drafted into the Confederate Army. They did not believe in the war and did not perceive it as their war, and the cause they thought was for rich plantation owners, not states rights. Thirty years after the war, one of the brothers tells a secret he has kept about the death of the famous General 'Stonewall' Jackson. Parker Layton believed in the mountain idea of 'the code fuedelo' and believed what he did was an act of retribution upon a bully and a murderer. For the next thirty years he told the story of why he fired the first shot on that day in May of 1863.

About the Author

Walt Mayes is a native North Carolinian who currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, VA.. He is a college graduate with majors in History and Psychology and holds a master's degree in Theology with Education and Languages. For several years he worked as a counselor for the Virginia Department of Corrections, and served in the U.S. Army. Mr. Mayes has written several novels, his novel 'Hungate's Ghost' has been called superb by reviewers. Currently he is working on a novel about an 18th Century woman who became a legend on the Virginia Frontier.