Honor and Glory

December 1862, The Heart of Winter.

A war is going on between North and South. The sisters McGuire are right in the middle of it. But for once Alice McGuire has been able to forget that and she has been dancing all night long.  The next morning she and Colonel William Jackson realize once again that there's a war outside, a war that’s taking the lives of many victims. Her sister Amanda decides, after a struggle with herself, to choose for the Union but Alice on the other hand can't find it in her heart to choose at all.

Everybody's suffering: they’re cold and hungry. Times are hard and families are falling apart.  Alice and her mother are also experiencing their part of the problems caused by the war.  There are no servants left, which means that Alice has to work hard. And her mother doesn't make things any easier.

Honor and Glory is set during the Civil War where North & South are up against each other.  But Kim Murphy has written a novel that contains drama and romance at the same time.  Honor and Glory is about two women who are holding on to their hopes and the things they believe in, to life and to enduring love. This story tells us how a war can come in between families who love each other.  If you are interested in a love story but also in the facts about war, of life during the Civil War, trying to survive while the country you live in gets ripped in two pieces... then Kim Murphy's Honor and Glory is a book you must read. It is a way to experience it all yourself because while reading this novel, you'll feel as if you’re in the middle of the war zone yourself.

Honor & Glory is the sequel to Kim Murphy's debut novel, Promise & Honor and is the second book in this Civil War trilogy. The third and last book is called Glory & Promise (see my other review).