By Accident of Birth by Thomas E. Simmons has been released!

IRVING, Texas - Dec. 1, 2015 - PRLog -- By Accident of Birth by Thomas E. Simmons has been released!

By Accident of Birth spans the Atlantic, from the US during the Civil War to Cuba and France and, in the end, to Ireland and WWI.

A most incredible life and tragic end begins in 1915 as Bethany Quinn receives a call from the British Crown saying she is in possession of a cache of arms stored in her sugar mill warehouse in Cuba. An era she thought long past is resurrected in the last “special cargo” shipment to England to aid the allies in WWI. In preparation for the trip, she re-reads her mother’s and Dr. Perkins’ diaries which brings us to that fate-filled day in 1863, and takes us on a journey we will never forget…

During the siege of Vicksburg July 1863, sixteen-year-old Annielise Quinn is shot by a stray bullet which had passed through the groin of a confederate soldier and lodged itself in her pelvis nicking her uterus, thus impregnating her. The only persons to know of the “bullet baby” were her immediate family and Dr. Perkins. Two-year-old Beverly Bethany Quinn is the only survivor when a trio of crazed Yankees slaughters her family. Having been hid in a basket by her mother, Annielise, she is found by the Quinn’s nanny, Arabella, and taken to be raised by Dr. Perkins in Vicksburg, and subsequently her Uncle Jonathan who lives in Cuba.

Wars, love, friendships, tragedies, clandestine shipments and harrowing escapes—unforgettable. As unbelievable as it may sound, the events mentioned in this manuscript did actually take place.

Thomas E. Simmons is the author of Escape from Archangel (University Press of Mississippi), The Man Called Brown Condor (Sky Horse Publishing) and Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air (Taylor Trade Publishing). He has also written numerous magazine articles, an example of which, “Growing Up With Mr. Faulkner,”was published in The Oxford American, a literary magazine founded by John Grisham. The sequel to By Accident of Birth, The Last Quinn Standing, is due for release in 2016. www.thomasesimmons.net

Published by TouchPoint Press www.touchpointpress.com

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com.