The Revelation of Suna Gazzini
(2027)(The first book in the Ascendancy Protocol series)
A novel by Keith Lee Johnson
THE REVELATION OF SUNA GAZZINI
An Ascendancy Protocol Novel
Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. August 1980.
Colonel Maceo Crowe steps off a C-141 unannounced, walks into the Command Post, and relieves the man in the chair before the coffee is cold. Memphis-raised, Vietnam-hardened, four years at Clark behind him, he has commanded harder bases than this one. He has never commanded a base that comes with a librarian.
Suna Gazzini is thirty-four, Istanbul-born, the eldest daughter of one of the oldest fortunes on the Bosphorus. Six years ago her family married her to Colonel Cemal Kaya, the senior Turkish officer on the base and the leash her father keeps on her. She runs the library. She wears Chanel No. 5. She chooses her books carefully, and when she begins choosing them for Crowe, everyone at Incirlik understands what is being said without a word.
Her husband understands it too.
What follows is a courtship conducted in plain sight, at the library curb, at the flagpole, across a dinner table in a house on the water where an old man is dying. The Kaya family removes inconvenient men. Ismail Gazzini has questions for the colonel who is spending time with his daughter. And Suna, who has spent her whole life being someone else's arrangement, is about to inherit everything her father built, including the secrets that come with it.
One man thought he owned her by law. Another man owned her heart and soul. But her father held her inheritance.
From the world of Ambition: The Jericho Wise Story.
You Won't Sleep Tonight.
Genre: Romance
An Ascendancy Protocol Novel
Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. August 1980.
Colonel Maceo Crowe steps off a C-141 unannounced, walks into the Command Post, and relieves the man in the chair before the coffee is cold. Memphis-raised, Vietnam-hardened, four years at Clark behind him, he has commanded harder bases than this one. He has never commanded a base that comes with a librarian.
Suna Gazzini is thirty-four, Istanbul-born, the eldest daughter of one of the oldest fortunes on the Bosphorus. Six years ago her family married her to Colonel Cemal Kaya, the senior Turkish officer on the base and the leash her father keeps on her. She runs the library. She wears Chanel No. 5. She chooses her books carefully, and when she begins choosing them for Crowe, everyone at Incirlik understands what is being said without a word.
Her husband understands it too.
What follows is a courtship conducted in plain sight, at the library curb, at the flagpole, across a dinner table in a house on the water where an old man is dying. The Kaya family removes inconvenient men. Ismail Gazzini has questions for the colonel who is spending time with his daughter. And Suna, who has spent her whole life being someone else's arrangement, is about to inherit everything her father built, including the secrets that come with it.
One man thought he owned her by law. Another man owned her heart and soul. But her father held her inheritance.
From the world of Ambition: The Jericho Wise Story.
You Won't Sleep Tonight.
Genre: Romance