The Humpherys Family

Love and Honor

Record Added: 2/21/2015
Author 
Setting United States
Topic History: American Revolut
 Historical Fiction
Publisher Simon and Schuster
ISBN 074326519X   Year 2005
Age Adult   Pages 416
Description Dark printed dustjacket
 
"Love and Honor" takes taking readers back to the eighteenth century in a novel brimming with romance, heroism, and nail-biting twists of fate. A brave fighter and brilliant student of the art of war, Virginia cavalryman Kieran Selkirk is summoned to a clandestine meeting on the eve of the American Revolution. There he finds none other than Benjamin Franklin, who reveals that the British have asked Catherine the Great to provide twenty thousand Russian soldiers to help put down the resistance in America.

Such a force, fresh from victory over the Turks, would certainly destroy any hope of American independence. Selkirk's mission is straightforward, if hardly simple: he is to travel to Russia disguised as a British mercenary, offer his services to the Tsarina in her fight against the Cossacks that threaten her throne, and convince her not to join the British in their war with America. In a narrative full of treacherous characters, heart-stopping combat, and human sacrifice on a grand scale, Selkirk's desperate mission is fraught with dangers too numerous to count - including a romance with the ruthless Catherine herself. Grand, glorious, and unforgettable, "Love and Honor" captures the fight for good over evil, integrity and compassion over cruelty, and true love over all.