Howard Root's 'Among The Mohegans' Wins Editor's Choice and Rising Star Awards

As the youngest son in England's Puritan heartland, Jonathan Smythe foresees a life of servitude to his older brother. After committing a vengeful murder, he is forced to flee his village, facing the perils of ocean voyages and the unknowns of the New World. Yet driven by dreams of owning fertile land without slaves, he embarks on a hazardous journey to the English colonies, a pilgrimage to a new life that will be more demanding than he ever imagined, involving desperate battles and massacres against the Native American Pequot nation after he finally reaches the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When Jonathan befriends Running Wolf, a Mohegan ally, he may finally find passage to his true passions and self. In this compelling tale, this young Puritan man must face raw challenges that test his faith and life in a new world as he searches for his destiny.

Howard Root spent his creative writing career as an advertising and marketing communication executive at Fortune 500 companies and for high technology clients. An avid reader of history, Howard now lives in Rochester, New York with his wife, Sheila Anne.

Among The Mohegans, published by iUniverse, is competitively priced and available in 6x9 dust jacket hardcover, trade paper, and popular e-book formats with optimized search and "See Inside" features on Google Play, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble websites.

The author can be contacted via his website at HowardRootWrites.com and social media connections of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.