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FRATERNITY OF SILENCE
by Katherine Shepard
Seven Locks press, April 2003
264 pages
$14.95
ISBN: 0972907106


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Texas State Lt. Govenor is found dead at his desk and the fact that it might be murder is successfully squelched. When broadcaster Robert Larkin is chosen to step into the office he chooses fledgling journalist Christine Pullen as his communications director. It soon becomes clear to the two of them that they are falling in love. One big stumbling block, Bob is married to Margaret, who is dead set on becoming the First Lady of the state of Texas.

When Bob is called upon to cast the deciding vote on an issue he opposes and his party is anxious to see become law, Bob has to decide whether to go along to get along or oppose his party.

After the voting is over Bob decides to resign the office of Lt. Governor and move to Michigan where he hopes he can obtain a divorce to marry "Beth" as she is known by. When he makes his plans to move to Michigan known, the opposing party in Michigan tries to convince him to switch sides and enter politics in Michigan. Of course, the relationship he has with Beth has been kept so quiet that only a very few trusted friends and her best friend and her father are aware of it. Margaret will agree to a secret divorce but will publically be recognized as the wife of Bob. So goes one of the most tangled web of twists and turns this reviewer has ever come across. It keeps the reader spellbound right up to the hugely surprising finale.

Ms. Shepherd has had much experience in politics and it shows in this book. I couldn't put it down and when I finished it, it stayed in my thoughts a long time. I highly recommend it.

I give it a 6 dagger, 6 stars, and as I have said before, I am very stingy with my sixes. This is the most interesting book I have read in a long time.

Ms. Shepherd lives with her husband and son in California when shes not writing from her "second home" in the Texas Hill country. I believe she is at work on a second book. I hope so, and that I get to review it.

Reviewed by Virginia Welding, April 2003

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