Happy Friday! Today I am again featuring an author who will be attending the 2025 Turning A New Page Book Festival in Perry, Georgia. This exciting event features Christian fiction and “clean reads”, so put January 25, 2025 on your calendar. Willow And The Boys is a historical novel by Rick Maier. It details an interesting time in Georgia history — 1800s. Three generations of the Bowers family experience the expansion into Cherokee lands, the gold rush in North Georgia, the Civil War/Reconstruction, industrial breakthroughs, and the New South.
Here’s the first line:
Roy Bowers remained seated at the table as his management team stood and exited the room.
Roy Bowers wins a 160-acre lot in the 1832 Georgia land lottery. He leaves his successful Macon business in the hands of his oldest son and takes his sixteen-year-old boy with him on a long journey through the frontier to North Georgia. Roy finds the land rich in resources, and Tim meets a lovely half-Cherokee maiden. Still, the Bowers must overcome attacks and take big risks in developing a thriving community along the Toccoa River in the North Georgia mountains. The 1800s were a monumental time in Georgia’s history-westward expansion into Cherokee lands, slavery, gold fever, epidemics, railroads, depressions, the Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, industrial breakthroughs, and the New South era. Georgia’s rich history comes to life through the adventures of three generations of the Bowers family.
Rick Maier moved to Georgia in the 1980s to advance his career. He retired in 2016 and now enjoys staying close to his children, grandchildren, writing and traveling. His first four novels – Bone Dust, Exit South, Orange Terrace, and The Tunnels – are thrillers with a little romance, set in real venues around his adopted home town of Macon. Fire and Faith is a true crime story with personal connections. Alaska Awakening is a thriller set in his favorite summer retreat – Alaska! Willow and the Boys is historical fiction set in frontier Georgia in the 1800s. Three generations of the Bowers family overcome war, disease, and epidemics to develop a town in the Blue Ridge mountains.
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