Second Thoughts
- ISBN-10
- 0989205568
- ISBN-13
- 9780989205566
- Series
- Second Thoughts
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-02-25
- Author
- James Curtis
Description
Second Thoughts, the second book in The Kerr Chronicles, follows a brilliant and gifted young Scotsman, John Knox Kerr, as he struggles to balance influential roles in New York City and Washington, DC in the 1930s. His challenges go beyond his public persona and into a personal life marked by passion, conflict, and his own ambitious goals. His inner struggle as a man of God, and yet a very human being, resonates with something in all of us. Powerful men and women bring challenge after challenge his way as he strives to live up to his own high standards despite the temptations and opportunities that surround him.
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