BOOK
OUTLINES FOR DEBATES OF HONOR SERIES
SERIES TITLE: DEBATES
OF HONOR
SUBTITLES:
Book One:
Patriarch (John)
Book Two: Coldstream
Guard (Robert)
Book Three: Marching
to War (Daniel)
Book Four: Cherokee Dawn (Luke)
Book Five:
Yankees (Ezra)
Book Six:
Love and Rage (Isaiah)
Book Seven: Damn
Pontiac (William)
Book Eight: The
Pennamite (James Ezekiel)
Book Nine: Beauty’s
Revenge (Mary)
AUTHOR: FRANCINE PRICE
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THEMEs: Honor,
integrity, humanity, family, country
GENRE: HISTORICAL FICTION
TIME FRAME: SevenYears’ War to the end of Sullivan’s Expedition
GENERAL LOCATION: Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania
(in Philadelphia, Lackawanna County, and the Wyoming Valley and Connecticut).
TAGS: Colonial History, American History, Native
American History, War, Colonialism, and Genocide and Ethnocide
SERIES SYNOPSIS:
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What
is the price of one’s honor and integrity? Does being a God-fearing man trump
honor and integrity in favor of one’s country or does honor go hand-in-hand
with protecting innocents and people stuck in the center of a conflict not of
their own making? These are the questions the Blackthorpe men and their sister
will wrestle with while supporting two sides of the conflict. These very ideas might well tear the siblings
apart and precipitate a private civil war which might destroy them. Is family honor and loyalty stronger than the
honor and loyalty to one’s country? What
price will the Blackthorpe siblings have to pay to protect their honor and
loyalty to each other, their families, and their countries?
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One: John Blackthorpe became the family’s patriarch after
his father passed in 1748. He has
several mouths to feed and younger siblings to protect. He was not an easy man to get along with as a
result. But the last few wars have had
their toll on him. He knows it is a
matter of time until he would be heading back to fight for his country and his
life.
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Two: Robert Blackthorpe watches his brother John struggle
with the responsib-lities of being the head of the family while also wanting to
seclude himself in his religious studies.
Robert receives a commission from Thomas Penn into the British regulars
as a Left Lieutenant of Army Surgeons.
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Three: Daniel Blackthorpe marches with Colonel George
Washington as they head toward where the French are said to have encamped. He
joined to learn the lay of the land beyond the Juniata River. He wanted to set up a new homestead, but the
good this would bring might be pricey; it would come at one Hell of a
price. Can he survive the coming war
with sanity and honor intact?
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Eight: James Ezekiel Blackthorpe chooses to side with the
Pennsylvanian government under Thomas Penn and helps with the invasion of the
upper Susquehanna River Valley near Wyoming Valley in evicting Connecticut
settlers off land Pennsylvania regards as her own. But where is the honor in murdering women and
children, which he refuses to do? His
ethical battle comes to a peak in December 1775, when he participates in a
pitched battle near Rampart Rocks, with Colonel Plunkett, and is wounded and
rescued by Moira Rebecca O’Shea. His
honor demands he protect the young woman that saved his life. How will he side? What are the real debates
of honor?
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