Award-Winning Novelist Raises Funds for Lost Colony Archeological Dig

ROANOKE, Va. - Oct. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Jo Grafford is pleased to sponsor “A Thanksgiving Wish” fundraiser. Each copy sold of her debut novel Breaking Ties, first book in the Lost Colony Series, will help fund an archeological dig of what is hoped to be the Lost Colony fort site at Scotch Hall Preserve in Windsor, NC. Fifty percent of all proceeds in November will be donated.

Jo Grafford wrote Breaking Ties to draw wider attention to these pioneers who were missing when their supply ships returned to Roanoke Island in 1590. Their whereabouts have remained a mystery for 426 years. Published October 17, 2013, Breaking Ties challenges one popular historical theory that all 115 men, women, and children were slaughtered by hostile natives. In her novel, Mrs. Grafford narrates the Lost Colony story from the perspective of a gritty band of survivors targeted by saboteurs to derail their risky colonial investment venture. She unravels the details of a centuries-old conspiracy while offering plausible answers to who wanted the Lost Colonists to disappear and why.

Running November 1-28, 2013, “A Thanksgiving Wish” encourages fans of one of the world’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries to download Breaking Ties to their eReaders. It is a story, Mrs. Grafford believes, burning to be told from the grave while every copy sold contributes funds to the upcoming dig to locate these missing colonists. Historians and archeologists hope to uncover conclusive proof of survivors among the Lost Colonists who were last seen on August 27, 1587.

Jo Grafford, M.B.A., is an award-winning novelist at Astraea Press. Mrs. Grafford writes historical fiction based on real people and places to spotlight unsung heroes and unsolved mysteries. To learn more about “A Thanksgiving Wish,” visit www.JoGrafford.com.