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Broken Ranks
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About Broken Ranks
The first story in the Single Candles series centers on Max and Jennifer Conlin, a pro-life Democratic Senator and a Neonatal Surgeon, respectively. Max’s star is on the rise until a special election gives his party a super majority. Buoyed by their increased power, the party leaders begin pushing legislation that conflicts with his beliefs. Meanwhile, Jen’s hospital, influenced by an influx of new money, is considering a number of changes including conducting elective abortions. Forced into two untenable situations, they must come together and find a way to save their careers without forfeiting their convictions.
About Single Candles
Single Candles is a series of fictional short stories exploring pro-life issues in modern America. In a culture that devalues the human person, the pro-life movement has long faced an uphill climb. While fictional, the stories in Single Candles are examples of the real ways we fight to protect life from conception to natural death.
Cover by Frankie Photography
About Broken Ranks
The first story in the Single Candles series centers on Max and Jennifer Conlin, a pro-life Democratic Senator and a Neonatal Surgeon, respectively. Max’s star is on the rise until a special election gives his party a super majority. Buoyed by their increased power, the party leaders begin pushing legislation that conflicts with his beliefs. Meanwhile, Jen’s hospital, influenced by an influx of new money, is considering a number of changes including conducting elective abortions. Forced into two untenable situations, they must come together and find a way to save their careers without forfeiting their convictions.
About Single Candles
Single Candles is a series of fictional short stories exploring pro-life issues in modern America. In a culture that devalues the human person, the pro-life movement has long faced an uphill climb. While fictional, the stories in Single Candles are examples of the real ways we fight to protect life from conception to natural death.
Cover by Frankie Photography
29 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2016
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About the author
Brendan Lyons
45 books11 followersBrendan's love affair with writing started at a very young age. His earliest series, the original crayon and pencil versions of Nukular Wars in Space (originally entitled Nukular Wars in Spac, the 'e' was added later) sprouted from his early love of science fiction.
Ever the creative type, Brendan found what opportunities he could to put his ideas on paper. Choosing creative options on assignments, jotting down poetry, and making up songs with his friends, Brendan laid the groundwork for what would become his true passion.
Though he had attempted on multiple occasions to begin a novel-length work, he never found the inspiration to stick with it until his freshman year of college. While walking through the snow on an empty field on the Villanova University campus, he conceived the beginnings of The Traveler. The first two installments from the series (The Book of Iden) are available now with parts 3 and 4 in the edit stage.
Oh, and he didn't write 'They Loved Him to Death.' Goodreads has ignored his messages about that.
Ever the creative type, Brendan found what opportunities he could to put his ideas on paper. Choosing creative options on assignments, jotting down poetry, and making up songs with his friends, Brendan laid the groundwork for what would become his true passion.
Though he had attempted on multiple occasions to begin a novel-length work, he never found the inspiration to stick with it until his freshman year of college. While walking through the snow on an empty field on the Villanova University campus, he conceived the beginnings of The Traveler. The first two installments from the series (The Book of Iden) are available now with parts 3 and 4 in the edit stage.
Oh, and he didn't write 'They Loved Him to Death.' Goodreads has ignored his messages about that.
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January 4, 2017
Lyons does a great job describing the moral dilemmas of a couple who are both passionately pro-life but who are under economic and social pressure to conform to a pro-choice view. Lyons captures how pro-choice advocates describe access to abortion as healthcare. In both a political situation and a professional, medical situation, Lyons shows how easy it is to give in to outside pressures and give up one's convictions. Lyons' characters take the risks involved in sticking to their views. Maybe this is the right course--just do what one thinks is right and trust that everything will work out in the end.
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