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Love, Honor, & Consequence
Matthew Sterling is a man on the way up. As Assistant City Manager in the Wasatch Range community of Snowy Ridge, and a law school graduate, the 21st century looks promising, especially when a beautiful Ph.D genetic biology candidate, Kasia Somerset, reaches in and grabs his heart.
Returning to New York on family business Matt discovers the historic journal of Major Andrew McBride, his sixth-great grandfather, plus a Revolutionary War manuscript that uncloaks a true patriot, unjustly pilloried and cast into public shame.
As a modern-day political scandal unfolds and Matt's professional standing is challenged, Kasia wonders if he is the man she thought she loved. The similarity to Matt's early American ancestor challenges everything he believes about fairness, integrity, and justice. But when Kasia reveals her astonishing DNA discovery, she demonstrates that life may well be influenced by Love, Honor, & Consequence.
Returning to New York on family business Matt discovers the historic journal of Major Andrew McBride, his sixth-great grandfather, plus a Revolutionary War manuscript that uncloaks a true patriot, unjustly pilloried and cast into public shame.
As a modern-day political scandal unfolds and Matt's professional standing is challenged, Kasia wonders if he is the man she thought she loved. The similarity to Matt's early American ancestor challenges everything he believes about fairness, integrity, and justice. But when Kasia reveals her astonishing DNA discovery, she demonstrates that life may well be influenced by Love, Honor, & Consequence.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 18, 2011
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Gordon Ryan
23 books14 followersPassed away November 14th, 2012. He was 69.
Gordon Ryan was a writer with a varied history. He lived and worked in six foreign nations and a dozen or more states, including Alaska. He served in the 1st Recon Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and in the Air Force in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He also served as a member of the American Embassy staff in Dublin, Ireland, during the violent seventies. His first published novel, Dangerous Legacy, was released in 1994 and he published ten more over the intervening years with the three Pug Connor novels, the last one released in early 2011.
Gordon Ryan was a writer with a varied history. He lived and worked in six foreign nations and a dozen or more states, including Alaska. He served in the 1st Recon Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and in the Air Force in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He also served as a member of the American Embassy staff in Dublin, Ireland, during the violent seventies. His first published novel, Dangerous Legacy, was released in 1994 and he published ten more over the intervening years with the three Pug Connor novels, the last one released in early 2011.
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May 28, 2011
An excellent read. I was drawn in immediately to the story of Matt and Kasia and the way their relationship developed. Also the parallel story of Matt's ancestor Major Andrew McBride that comes to light. Both have to face enormous challenges in their lives regarding fairness, integrity, and justice. When public opinion turns on them, they need to draw on their personal strength, support of their families and for Matt and Kasia on their spiritual faith.
There are other strong characters in the novel who stay true to their trust and friendship with Matt rather than be swayed by public opinion.
There are other strong characters in the novel who stay true to their trust and friendship with Matt rather than be swayed by public opinion.
August 20, 2012
Both these books were unsatisfying. By which I mean that the book has two stories in: one set in the 1770s and one in the modern era. Either would have been perfectly readable standing alone, but when melded together, both felt too light.
I didn't like the ending of the modern story at all.
I didn't like the ending of the modern story at all.
January 12, 2015
it was ok. it was a book to read when i had nothing else to do. It did not make me "Have" to read it.
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July 24, 2011It was a great read. I have read all of Gordon's books and not a bad one in the bunch.
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