Unintended Consequences

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brimming with hope <em>Unintended Consequences</em> a story told through three Southern familiesis a moving novel about the ways we weave in and out of one another's lives sending ripples of change into the world. </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the second we enter this world our choices or lack thereof are shaped by the circumstances already in motion when we arrive. Nathan Erskine wasn't particularly destined for greatness-neither were Matthew Beckham or Roderick Bastrop. And feeling no inward sense ofpersonal destiny the three found themselves meandering through life as if neither choices nor their consequences mattered at all even while their futures morphed and molded into life-altering outcomes with every step. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nathan the son of a hardworking and successful real estate broker never planned to teach. Little did he know the classroom would become the unlikely stage for a destiny far larger than he could imagine. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Matthew raised by distant and aloof parents did everything in his power good and bad to get the attention he so deeply craved until a punishing military academy broke him down and a summer with his eccentric family built him up. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Roderick Bastrop orphaned as a young boy lived with his great grandmother. Despite her love she could offer only minimal supervision leaving Roderick face to face with the cruel injustice of the American justice system. And like so many young Black boys in this environment Roderick simply slipped through the cracks of a system already skewed against him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The lives of Nathan Matthew and Roderick collide in ways none of them could have foreseen as they each grapple with courage conviction and the inescapable weight of their pasts.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A page-turner that surprises with emotion and heart <em>Unintended Consequences</em> is for readers who relish rich and gripping stories about love loss and the surprises of everyday life.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>A compelling narrative and a call to conscience. Every teacher and parent should read this book.</strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>-</strong><strong>Dr. Ronnie McGehee former Superintendent Madison County Public Schools Madison Mississippi </strong></p>