Collision Course

The shocking death of the popular Prince of Wales launches his young heir into a roiling caldron of jealousy and intrigue. He urgently prepares for his aged grandfather's throne. Under the wing of his godly, botanist mentor, the prince staggers through family animosity, coup threats, jealousy, and slander. Parallel to the prince's journey, is the story of a down-and-out firebrand statesman, considering retirement from the House of Commons because he's under the king's disfavor. An alliance between the two ensures the prince's safe ascension. It also renders his godly mentor and the politician, the two most powerful men in Great Britain. In the face of escalating war, a shocking twist reveals they are on a collision course for control of the British Empire. Collision Course is a slice of real history with real people fleshed out and facing the real challenges of living in a fallen world. Set in mid-eighteenth-century England, the novel chronicles the simultaneous rise to power of two characters on a Collision Course for control of the British Empire. Collision Course shatters clichés as it treks through England's finest gardens and dines with kings and statesmen all the while peering into the universal nature of the human soul and the heartbeat of corrupted constitutional government. This is the true, untold story of alliance, ambition, betrayal, war, loss, and recovery that set the world stage for the American Revolution. The novel is timeless political intrigue, laced with humor and sweet romance.