Road to the Breaking: 9781733107938: Bennett, Chris

The Breaking is an epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War.

Captain Nathaniel Chambers, a war hero and commander of U.S.

Army Fort Davis in west Texas, must return home to Virginia and claim his inheritance before a maniacal neighbor can murder his widowed mother and seize the family plantation.

But he's torn by a terrible dilemma - to stay in the army and turn his back on his fortune, his mother, and his beloved childhood home, or become the thing he despises; a slave master! Will Nathaniel choose the path of honor and duty, or will he succumb to the temptation of power and wealth? Find out in this gripping tale of one man's struggle against the tide of history.