Kinsman: Brother's Keeper
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Book Overview
War has a way of following a man home.
Lorcan Rogan returns to his family's Tennessee homestead carrying wounds no one can see. Military service has left him angry, restless, and haunted by memories he cannot escape. He believes the Rogan family's lost honor can still be reclaimed-but only if someone is willing to answer blood with blood.
His older brother, Ferdia, has spent a lifetime believing otherwise.
Decades earlier, Ferdia watched their father die at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Since then, he has devoted himself to preserving the family their father left behind. He knows what vengeance costs, and he recognizes the road Lorcan is beginning to travel.
When Lorcan leaves Tennessee and follows the gathering forces of war south toward Spanish Florida, Ferdia must choose between the home he has worked years to build and the brother he helped raise.
He chooses his brother.
Accompanied by Samuel Boaz Freeman, a free Black traveler whose friendship and faith challenge Ferdia's understanding of honor, Ferdia journeys into a frontier where the lines between enemy and ally grow increasingly uncertain. American soldiers, Creek and Seminole peoples, Black communities, settlers, and displaced families all struggle to survive as another American war moves south.
Against the turbulent backdrop of the First Seminole War and Andrew Jackson's campaign into Florida, both brothers must confront what war has made of them-and decide whether honor is found in avenging the past or refusing to surrender the future to it.
Kinsman: Brother's Keeper is a sweeping work of American historical fiction about brotherhood, family loyalty, war, vengeance, faith, forgiveness, and redemption. Blending an intimate multigenerational family saga with the conflicts that reshaped the early American South, Isaac R. Langford explores the human cost of a history too often divided neatly into heroes and enemies.
For readers of character-driven historical fiction, frontier fiction, military historical fiction, and sweeping family sagas, Kinsman asks a timeless question:
How far would you go to bring your brother home?
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