Fields of Honor · Book 5
Edge of Reckoning
"Exile and reckoning — absence is its own kind of violence."
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About This Book
After a decade of political compromise and personal loss, Jack McCarty heads west — buying land in the Wisconsin Territory, surviving a brutal frontier winter, and returning to Virginia altered by solitude and grief. But the dueling culture he left behind is still very much alive, and the people who needed him most have been carrying the weight of his absence alone. When a congressman is killed on a dueling field and the old code reasserts itself, Jack must decide whether leaving was an act of conscience — or an act of abandonment. Edge of Reckoning asks the question the series has been building toward: does leaving protect the people you love, or does it simply abandon them?
Where This Book Fits in the Series
The Fields of Honor Series · 1816–1843
Six novels. Twenty-seven years. One man's journey from a dueling field to redemption.
Identity — Who are you when the person you believe yourself to be is put to the test?
Choice — What are you willing to sacrifice for the life you want?
Integrity — Can you remain who you are when the world rewards you for becoming someone else?
Restraint — When does holding the line become its own kind of choice?
Responsibility — Can you escape the consequences of a world you choose to leave behind?
Courage — What do we owe one another when standing aside is also a choice?
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