Passion Plays with Politics in Election Year E-Novel

A literary thriller set in the contrasting glitter and economic deprivation that is Houston, "A Matter of Conscience" escalates into a shattering battleground of death, and revelations of the all-too-human ironies of life; the interwoven tragedies of one woman turning to the comfort of a lover and another who would bring the world into the strictest of accounts for the death of what only some would call a child.

(PRWEB) May 16, 2004 -- King-makers in a country they call Texas looked at Ryland Whitley and saw their next Attorney-General and a future president, one who could lead their troubled state toward Camelot. They made a point of telling him, even urging him, to make a bid for State Attorney-General, first. It would be a perfect stepping stone for a man with his credentials and his calibre. But Whitley had been a brilliant and successful trial attorney for too many years to overlook that one essential question. If he were to run against the other candidates, what were the chances he would win?

The reply from Austin was somewhat startling and, in the end, an unexpected education in the master puppetry of politics. Ryland Whitley would win, if he really wanted to, but first, he would have to handle a devastating aspect of his private life -- his wife, Jessica's unhappy habit of adultery. This brutal rumor triggers, from the novel's start, dramatic change for two people whose relationship of passion and trust begins unraveling. A warrior-advocate, Ryland Whitley can, of course, take refuge in the absorbing implications of the Becca Stevens case. But Jessica...?

"A Matter of Conscience" is a tale of psychological suspense; an attorneys pursuit of justice for a client and her unborn child amidst the social turmoil of a controversial case and haunting death threats from an emissary in the crowd, one man -- perhaps insane -- and, in possession of what the F.B.I. could only term an assassins muzzle energy."

But again, what of Jessica, that pretty poetess so much maligned? The process of another trial is going on, to either vindicate or convict her of a certain deed, within a softly contoured courtroom, the sophistry of her own attorney-husband's mind.