Review: Until There Was You  4.5  Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2012
I received this ARC from the author for an honest review..This is a powerful novel about love and war. We meet Evan Loehr, a West Point grad who believes in following the rules to the letter, his nickname is Captain America which he seriously dislikes. He is carrying scars from war on his body, but also in his heart from a teenage mistake that has changed his life. In a bar in 2004, at a military function, he meets a striking redhead whose name is Clare Montoya. She enlisted in the Army, and then went on to Officer Training School, and is a Captain. At this same bar we meet Reza Iaconelli, Sergeant First Class, who has been friends with Clare since her enlisted days. He will be a source of conflict for them both. This encounter between Evan and Clare is uneventful, except they are strangely drawn to each other, and the evening ends with a very hot kiss. Both Clare and Evan chalk this up as a bad mistake.They meet again four years later, on a frigid mountainside in Colorado, for a training mission. There have been chance contacts here and there during their deployment, and Evan considers Clare a "wildfire out of control". He is still Captain America. Neither is happy about the way this training mission is going.Conflict, disagreements, and Reza Iaconelli cannot stop this growing need for each other, which they both try to deny. Evan and Claire think they're secure in their lives and careers; except when they are together. They know there has to be more.This novel gives us an insight into the lives of our men and women in the military. They are real people with conflicts and secrets of their own. They must follow rules they sometimes disagree with, adjust to being "downrange", and then adjusting to being home again. A widowed soldier, who lost her husband in this war, must now leave her child to honor her obligations, and she does it with pride.Until There Was You is about `Duty, Honor, Country', but especially about Evan and Claire learning from their mistakes, putting them behind them, and moving on together. Oh, there is some HOT sex too!Thank you Ms. Scott, for this ARC, and your gripping story. I can't wait for the next!(less)