The sequel to PROMISE & HONOR, this book follows two sisters as they face challenges, loss and love during the Civil War.

Alice McGuire finds herself falling for her sister Amanda's former love, Colonel William Jackson.  With the war at their door, Alice and Wil's hurried encounters give way to mutual tender feelings.  Wil puts up a good front, masking his past from those he cares about.  Perhaps that is why he lost Amanda to Samuel Prescott.  Now, though, his feelings for Alice are burgeoning into something he can't ignore.

Alice is a tough woman; she has to be to be able to keep letting Wil go back to the war, fend off intruding Yankees and tending the sick and dying soldiers.  Battling for Wil's love is a slow going process, but she is determined.  War and desolation creep into places in both her and her sister's lives, and if they make it through with their husbands and their lives intact, perhaps something good can come of the war.

Not having read the first book, which must have traced Wil and Amanda's courtship and ultimately Amanda's marriage to the Yankee Sam Prescott, HONOR & GLORY doesn't feel like a sequel, but more like a continuation of the two sister's lives without leaving the reader feeling left out of the first.  I immediately felt connected to Alice, Amanda, Sam and Wil and was thoroughly engrossed in the setting.  Although sometimes I felt that the book skimmed time in several places (events happened too quickly in sequence to one another), it was not enough to dispel my sincere liking for this book.  This could easily be a grander book with epic proportions, but as it is, with Ms. Murphy's historical facts weaved into the midst of her romance, this was a book that held my interest from beginning to end.