We have been working diligently to get more visibility for my books on various platforms. One project we’ve been working on is creating A+ content for Amazon with the Renegade Series. Here is what we have so far. Please don’t hesitate to let me know what you think. Thanks so much!
A+ CONTENT PREVIEW
The Renegade Series
J.D.R. Hawkins
Civil War Historical Fiction
“A story about a family, a war, and the unbearable cost of both.”
Amazon Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · WSJ Bestseller · B.R.A.G. Medallion
The Renegade Series
The war stories you’ve read told one side. This one tells the other.
J.D.R. Hawkins is one of the very few female authors to write the Civil War from the Confederate front lines — bringing that world to life with unflinching honesty and extraordinary emotional depth.
At the heart of the series is David Summers — eighteen years old, from a quiet farm in north Alabama. He owns no slaves. He has no political convictions. He only dreams of going out West. But when war reaches his family’s doorstep, he is forced to grow up in the most brutal way imaginable.
■ Amazon · USA Today · Wall Street Journal Bestseller
■ Multiple John Esten Cooke Fiction Award Winners
■ B.R.A.G. Medallion — All Four Books
FOUR REASONS WHY READERS CHOOSE THIS SERIES
A Rarely Told Perspective
Most Civil War novels tell the Union story. J.D.R. Hawkins
goes to the other side — not to glorify, but to humanise. David
Summers is not a symbol. He is a boy. That distinction changes
everything.
A Family Saga at Its Core
The Renegade Series is, above all, a story about what war does
to a family. The waiting. The letters. The losses. The silences.
Readers who love character-driven historical fiction will be
completely absorbed.
Award-Winning Historical Accuracy
Multiple John Esten Cooke Fiction Award winners. B.R.A.G.
Medallion across all four books. Amazon, USA Today, and
Wall Street Journal bestseller. The accolades reflect what
readers already know.
Four Complete Novels
From enlistment to Reconstruction — the full arc of the Civil
War era across four richly layered novels. Start with Book 1
and you will not stop. This is the series that gets under your
skin.
MEET THE HEART OF THE STORY
David Summers & Jake Kimball
North Alabama · April 1863 · Confederate Volunteers
They didn’t want a war. They got one anyway.
David Summers is tall with shoulder length brown hair. His best friend
Jake Kimball stands beside him with collar length dark brown hair.
Together they are just two Southern boys from Alabama with dreams
bigger than their small town.
They enlist together in April 1863. They march into a war that will demand everything — their innocence, their friendship, and the futures they had barely begun to imagine.
Two boys. One war. A bond that nothing — not even history — could break.
THE COMPLETE SERIES — READING ORDER
1
A Beautiful Glittering Lie
A boy enlists. A family fractures. The war begins.
■ John Esten Cooke Award ■ B.R.A.G. Medallion
2
A Beckoning Hellfire
His father dies at Fredericksburg. David marches — this time for revenge.
■ Amazon Bestseller ■ B.R.A.G. Medallion
3
A Rebel Among Us
Survival demands impossible choices. No one walks away unchanged.
■ John Esten Cooke Award ■ B.R.A.G. Medallion
4
Double-Edged Sword
The war ends. The wounds don’t. David comes home to a world he no longer recognizes.
■ John Esten Cooke Award ■ B.R.A.G. Medallion
THE AUTHOR BEHIND THE SERIES
About J.D.R. Hawkins
J.D.R. Hawkins is one of a rare few female authors writing the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective — bringing the front lines to life with a depth of research, empathy, and storytelling craft that has earned her some of the genre’s highest honors.
An Amazon, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, her
Renegade Series has won multiple John Esten Cooke Fiction Award winners and B.R.A.G. Medallions across all four books.
Her inspiration came from a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield — and a burning question: what would drive an ordinary young man, with no stake in politics, to pick up a rifle and march into one of history’s most devastating wars?
■ Amazon · USA Today · WSJ Bestseller
■ John Esten Cooke Fiction Award Winners × 3
■ B.R.A.G. Medallion × 4
J.D.R. Hawkins 