Experience a Heartfelt Journey in 'THE LOVE CYCLE OF A CICADA' By Ken Ryan

The Book

In 1970, a young Cincinnati Reds fan, struggling with his family’s move from Ohio to northern Virginia, develops his first crush on a classmate amidst the once-every-17-year emergence of the Atlantic Brood X cicadas. His dream of becoming a Major League catcher is transformed into a career as a Navy officer, but the bond with his childhood friend remains strong, their lives forever intertwined by a pact to repatriate her missing brother from the Vietnam War.

Marked by star-crossed encounters aligned with the emergence cycles of the Brood X cicadas, their lives reconverge when he, a terminal rear admiral, and she, a rising foreign diplomat, embark on a mission to, once and for all, find out what happened to her brother, and bring him home.

Meet Ken

After a thirty-year career in the US Navy, Ken Ryan now operates a small business for innovative research and creative writing. Fiction is his chosen vehicle to communicate a message of hope to readers who may be overwhelmed by headlines and uninformed about the US military and its inner workings. This novel, his first, is reflective of his time in uniform.

Ken and his wife Kate live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Hope is a constant force that pulls our lives through the headwinds of time.

K. Ryan

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