Review: One of the Exceptional Ones!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
I read lots of books and write tons of reviews for several blogs so I have developed some substantial "filters" for romance fiction.  This is really one of the exceptional ones, written by an author who knows her stuff from personal experience and from watching individuals wade through some heavy-duty emotional crap because of the horrors of war.  We Americans now have 10 years of wounded warriors to accept back into our lives and it is unbelievable that so many good men and women have come home with their souls ripped apart and relationships shattered because of long absences as well as those who chose individuals as significant others who were unworthy of the trust placed in them.  This story is about two individuals who are truly soul-mates but whose lives have been torn apart because of fear, the inner wounds of too much death and dying all around them, the inner deadness that pervades the spirit when it is the only defense left when all is said and done.  Trent and Laura must work through the debris of a marriage that has suffered as much as they have and readers will do well to persevere in reading this emotional and heavy-duty novel that "takes no prisoners" and which never lets up from start to finish.  It is a part of a series that I have come to view as necessary reading for all of us who have been left at home so that we, too, can be honest about the long-term collateral damage to hearts, minds, spirits, and relationships.  Would that we would learn that war is HELL and we don't want any more of it!!  This book is simply a fantastic read.