The Fourth Kingdom

by Alexandra Swann, Joyce Swann

Overview

Is it possible to be a good person and yet still be connected to great evil?

On the day that his twin sons Jarrod and Joshua are born, Alexander Sinclair, an ambitious botanist, travels to a beef-cloning facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico to meet its visionary, enigmatic aging founder, Karl Helmick.

Over the next twenty-one years, Alexander and Karl collaborate on incredible scientific breakthroughs which make both men wealthy beyond their wildest dreams as Karl becomes friend, mentor and father-figure to Alexander while Karl's cruel, sadistic son, Josef, clashes repeatedly with Jarrod and Joshua.

The longer Alexander knows Karl, the more he realizes that his friend is not who he appears to be. As Alexander increasingly grapples with Karl's mysterious connection to the Third Reich, he and his wife Kate must rethink how they define good, evil and personal responsibility while they and their sons come face to face with one of the greatest evils of all time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452825137
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/07/2010
Series:	Kingdom Chronicles , #1
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Joyce and Alexandra Swann are mother and daughter. Joyce homeschooled her ten children from the first grade through master's degrees. She is a well-known author and speaker on the subject of homeschooling. For nearly a decade she was a popular columnist for "Practical Homeschooling" Magazine. She now blogs regularly on parenting, homeschooling, and Christian lifestyle issues. Joyce and Alexandra have co-authored two other novels, "The Chosen," published in 2012, and "The Twelfth Juror published in 2010. The Fourth Kingdom," published in 2010, was a top four finalist in the "Christianity Today" 2011 book awards for the category of fiction. Joyce's personal story of her experiences raising and educating her family is chronicled in "Looking Backward: My Twenty-Five Years" as a Homeschooling Mother, published in February of 2011. Her novel, "The Warrior," which tells the story of one woman's ten year prayer vigil for a man she has never met, was released in May of 2012. She is also the author of two children's books, "Tales of Pig Isle" and "The McAloons," which began as stories that she told to entertain her grandchildren. Alexandra is author of "No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master's Degree at Age Sixteen" and "Writing for Today." She has been self-employed for over fourteen years and was the 2011 Chairwoman of the Board of the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She writes a regular blog, Paying for Protection, about the consequences of over-regulation and over-reaching government. Her novel "The Planner," which is the prequel to "The Chosen," was published in June of 2012.