Review: Once her man
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
A short novel with not much content, ONCE HER MAN ALWAYS HER MAN tells of a returned Marine who meets his sweetheart again.Luke Dexter, a Marine, attends a club in Texas to join an exclusive dating service and meets Rebecca Rainier at the bar. The pair were high-school sweethearts who never went further than kissing but enjoyed spending time together. Luke was from a military family and enlisted in the Marines as soon as he was allowed. He knew he would be sent to Afghanistan and did not want Rebecca to be tied to that situation with the attendant risks, so he made no commitment. She wrote letters regularly which went unanswered.Now Luke is home and opening a centre for recovering veterans, and Rebecca is running a corporate hospitality firm which is helping to launch the centre. She immediately feels strongly for Luke and he for her, and far from chiding him for failing to keep in touch, she decides on a fling in the back of his car. While Rebecca does come across as a strong and successful woman, I felt she was selling herself short.I found this skimpy and a longer tale would have allowed us to explore the lives of the two people during those eleven years rather than just having a leap from children to maturity with a skim over their current work.