Outbound from Virginia

An historical novel. Twenty-year-old Will Porter doesn't want his parents to get divorced even though his newborn brother may not be his father's. But when he seeks to keep; his mother and father together he's thrown out of the house and disinherited. His college education cut short, Will strikes out on his own, traveling through various towns of the South during the 1890's before heading west to seek his fortune. A member of one of the more prominent families of historic Virginia, Will trades on his gentlemanly Southern manners and his sense of entitlement to carve out a living and start a fa…