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West of the Alleghenies: A Story of Survival during the Revolutionary War

Based on a true family history, one man is captured and marched across a war-torn frontier while the woman he loves fights to keep their family alive.

Best Published Book of the Year—4th Place
Best Published Historical Fiction—Silver Award
Florida Writers Association
2021 Royal Palm Literary Award

Driven by the promise of a new frontier, Fergus Moorhead, his young wife Jane, and a small band of pioneers cross the Allegheny Mountains into the wilderness of Western Pennsylvania.

Then war tears their world apart.

Fergus is captured and forced on a brutal journey from one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War to a British prison ship. Believing her husband may be dead, Jane must protect their children and survive the frontier alone.

"Pennington has written an exciting novel...I recommend this well-researched and stirring Revolutionary War adventure." —Historical Novel Society

"Pennington writes...well, and…leaves a sense that we know what the characters are experiencing…this is a good adventure story."— Muzzleloader Magazine

The Heart of the Run

Award-winning saga of Scotland, Ireland, and the long road to America

Based on a family history published by the author’s great-great-grandfather in 1901, The Heart of the Run follows five generations of the Moorhead family
through war, famine, betrayal, and exile.

Best Published Historical Fiction—Gold Medal

Florida Writer's Association
Royal Palm Literary Awards 2022

Fulfilling a once-abandoned dream, young Alexander Moorhead and his mother risk everything on a perilous voyage to America in 1764.

During the long months at sea, Alex discovers the extraordinary story of the men and women who came before him — soldiers, smugglers, scholars, survivors, and dreamers who endured civil war, clan violence, religious upheaval, Irish famine, and the brutal cost of survival.

From Scotland to Ireland to the American colonies, The Heart of the Run is a sweeping family saga about courage, sacrifice, and the generations who carried hope across the sea.

" The amount of history and knowledge contained in this book is impressive. Readers will be swept away..." Historical Novel Society

"Pennington expertly weaves fiction and history together to portray events during this terrible time in U.S. history. This is so much more than a mystery." — Historical Novel Society

Murder on the Underground Railroad:
A Historical Thriller

In 1826, the brutal murder of two escaped slaves shocks
the quiet town of Indiana, Pennsylvania

Newspaperman James Moorhead and Dr. Robert Mitchell uncover a twisted connection to the 1793 Philadelphia
Yellow Fever epidemic, thirty ears earlier.

  As the mystery deepens, the formation of the Underground Railroad, the horrors of the epidemic, and the trial of one of Pennsylvania’s most famous abolitionists are brought vividly to life.

"An illuminating and quite satisfying read."
The Historical Novel Society

The Blood of Whiskey Run:
A Historical Thriller

In Whiskey Run, Pennsylvania,
secrets don’t stay buried.

In 1932, County Detective Thomas L. Moorhead kissed his wife goodbye and told her he would see her that evening.

He never came home.

Five days later, he was found dead in a Chicago hotel room. His death was ruled a suicide — but that could not explain what happened in the missing days before he died.

Based on actual events, The Blood of Whiskey Run imagines those missing days, following Moorhead into a dying coal town where a body beneath a burned-out house uncovers decades of violence, forbidden love, Black Hand corruption, and secrets reaching all the way to Capone’s Chicago.

"...when it comes to storytelling, Pennington delivers."

— James L. Nelson, author of The Norsemen Saga