Wofford’s Blood
A Novel
- 2024 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Historical (Adult Fiction)
WOFFORD'S BLOOD, an epic family saga saturated in Cherokee and North Georgia history, is based on the true history of James Daugherty Wofford, who led a detachment on the Trail of Tears and was one of the main informants for Smithsonian ethnologist James Mooney. In 1815 in the contested borderland between the state of Georgia and the Cherokee Nation, thirteen-year-old J.D. Wofford, son of a Cherokee mother and a white Intruder father, must choose where his loyalties lie.