title: Grant: A Novel
author:  Max Byrd 
description: Devotees of the historical novel will find much to admire in Max Byrd's tightly written and consistently entertaining glance backward at General U.S. Grant's failed attempt to win a third presidential term. In life, Grant was an inscrutable character. He spoke little, wrote little, remained faithful to his wife, and seems to have devoted all the extravagance in his nature to alcohol. He had been an indifferent student at West Point and a conscientious but undistinguished young officer. The years just before the Civil War were the lowest for him--all his business enterprises had soured. Grant had the opposite of the Midas touch: everything he put his hands on turned to mud, and his chronic drunkenness had led to his forced retirement from the army.
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  # The Agreement
  
  
  ### a Billionaire Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Charlotte Byrd
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Byrd Books
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](part0002.html#1T140-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](part0003.html#2RHM0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  [About The Agreement](part0004.html#3Q280-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  [Part 1](part0005.html#4OIQ0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Grant](part0006.html#5N3C0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  2.
  
  
  [Grant](part0007.html#6LJU0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  3.
  
  
  [April](part0008.html#7K4G0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  4.
  
  
  [April](part0009.html#8IL20-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  5.
  
  
  [April](part0010.html#9H5K0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
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  [April](part0011.html#AFM60-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
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  [April](part0012.html#BE6O0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  8.
  
  
  [Grant](part0013.html#CCNA0-2c004cb33a6c450b87e10e05a7321cc9)
  
  
  [Part 2](p