Holy Sacrament

About the Book

They survived the disastrous British defeat at the forks of the Ohio. Now Logan McGill and Elizabeth Hay, along with the superb woodsman Davy Duncan and the irascible Turley, return from the wilds of Penn’s Woods to the New York frontier. In Holy Sacrament, the sequel to The Forks of the Ohio, an army of professional French soldiers and their savage allies is poised to invade the Hudson River Valley. Only an army of raw but determined New England merchants and farmers, commanded by the inexperienced General William Johnson, stands between them and Albany. But it is not until after his escape from Fort St. Frederic and the brutal battle at Lake George that a savage fight for survival begins. After discovering Elizabeth Hay was kidnapped by smugglers supplying arms to the enemy Logan and his friends begin their search. Along the way they must fight off the viscous attacks of the assassins of their arch enemy Barnabus Mathews; the Seneca warrior Big Kettle and the Canadian bush loper Jarbou, who are bent on satisfying their own revenge. From fighting for justice among a forlorn band of Mohican warriors and facing certain death in a hostile Sokoki village, to surviving the treacherous waters of the turbulent Ticonderoga Narrows, Logan must overcome insurmountable odds in the barbarous frontier of New York. The adventures of Logan McGill and his companions continue in the soon to be released Oswego, which chronicles the bloody massacres at forts Bull and Oswego.

About the Author

James David Bailey graduated from West Virginia University’s school of forestry in 1982 and worked as a forester for the state of West Virginia, where he became fascinated with the history of the Ohio Valley and the North American frontier. After returning to his hometown of Lima, in western New York in 2000, he completed work on a Masters Degree and became certified as a history teacher. There, at the Crossroads of the Indian Nations, he continues his research and writing about the settling of North American and the events that led to the birth of a new nation.