A Southern Son is a captivating novel about love and war and growing up on a magical barrier island off the coast of South Carolina. “Sonny” Rutledge is a son of the sea, a child of the Great Depression, whose destiny is intertwined with the son of a lord and lady from England, and the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist. From Rutledge Island, South Carolina, to London, England, to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to the war in the Pacific as a Marine Corps officer, Sonny Rutledge leads a life of wonder and hardship, love and betrayal. A Southern Son is Book One of the series The Leathernecks by John G. Richards, the author of The Fish House Gang.