Kent Mayeux is a retired Louisiana attorney with a lifelong passion for the history and heritage of his home state. A native of Louisiana with deep French Creole roots, Kent has spent some twenty years researching his own documented Mayeux and Bordelon ancestors, colonial settlers who arrived in French Louisiana in the early 18th century and helped shape the land that would one day become part of the United States.
That research became The 14th Colony, a four-book historical fiction series following Kent’s ancestors from their arrival at Biloxi in 1720 through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Blending careful genealogical and historical research with rich, character-driven storytelling, the series brings colonial Louisiana to life: its wilderness, its hardships, and the families who endured them.
Kent is now bringing the series to the screen. The first episode, a 50-minute pilot titled “Maintenay,” will be funded through a Kickstarter campaign launching January 4, 2027.
Kent was a featured author at the 2015 Louisiana Book Festival. He lives in Prairieville, Louisiana, with his wife, and they have two children and three grandchildren. When he’s not writing, he can usually be found duck hunting in the marsh or manning the grill for a proper Louisiana barbecue.
Kent Mayeux is a retired Louisiana attorney with a lifelong passion for the history and heritage of his home state. A native of Louisiana with deep French Creole roots, Kent has spent some twenty years researching his own documented Mayeux and Bordelon ancestors, colonial settlers who arrived in French Louisiana in the early 18th century and helped shape the land that would one day become part of the United States.
France, 1720. One stolen document. One ruined life. One way out.
Pierre Mayeux had everything a young man could want — a comfortable home on his father’s tax farm in northern France, and Simone, the sharecropper’s daughter who shared his bed and his secrets. Then one night changed everything.
When Simone robbed a passing carriage and stole the...
France gave him a second chance. The wilderness will decide if he deserves it.
In the autumn of 1720, Pierre Mayeux steps off La Profond onto the white sand shore of Nouvelle Biloxi—a young man carrying a heavy burden - a hidden past, and a sentence from the French Crown. He did not choose Louisiana. Louisiana was chosen for him.
December 1729. The Natchez have burned the fort, killed the men, and taken the women and children. Pierre Mayeux has lost his plantation — but not his family, and not his nerve.
While New Orleans reels from the massacre, Pierre does what he has always done: he acts. He joins the French expedition upriver to answer the Natchez in kind, then turns...
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