Unintended Consequences

<p>Nathan Erskine never planned to teach-nor did he expect to encounter one particularly trying student and quit in his first year. Despite his doubts Nathan's classroom would become the unlikely stage for a destiny far larger than he could imagine.</p><p></p><p>Matthew Beckham prided himself on being the bad boy until a punishing military academy broke him down and a summer with his eccentric family built him back up.</p><p></p><p>And then there's Roderick Bastrop a troubled young man who burst into an elementary school with a rifle and a plan-only to be met by Esther Evans who saw in him not a monster but the boy he still might be.</p><p></p><p>Years later the lives of Nathan Matthew and Roderick will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen-testing the courage convictions and faith they share through their Southern upbringings.</p><p></p>