Review: I gave this 5 stars because Amazon doesn't have 10 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
This short prequel to the Lost and Found Series is about John, Chad and Duncan who were soldiers who had all been wounded while serving in Iraq.  They met while they were being treated for serious injuries at Walter Reed military hospital.  It didn't take me long to fall in love with these three heroes and I am eager to read each one's story.  I think the author gives a very realistic account of some of the reactions soldiers have to being severely wounded.  She shows the anger, the frustration, the fear, the embarrassment, etc. that each of these men feels as he tries to come to grips with the physical limitations placed on him by his injuries.Melanie, Duncan's fiancée, comes to Walter Reed to break up with him because visiting a grievously wounded fiancé is just more than she can handle, or as she tells Duncan, "I know you'll get better, eventually, but I need to move forward with my life." And by the way, she just HAPPENS to be a few months pregnant with another man's baby.  When I read this, on behalf of my husband who served three tours of duty in Vietnam and spent twenty years in the Navy, and on behalf of all the soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea or ANYWHERE, I was outraged. There is no book about what happens to Melanie but though I do not practice either Hinduism or Buddhism, I believe in Karma and I like to tell myself that she will be severely unhappy as she "moves forward with her life" and that her relationship with her baby's father will end abruptly and I would LIKE to think he will dump her the way she dumped Duncan.When Melanie broke up with Duncan, I knew that this was one series that I did NOT want to miss, so even before finishing the prequel, I searched for and bought the first book in the series, which turns out to be John's story.  I can't wait to read Duncan's story because I really, really, really, really want him to find a woman who will love him enough to continue to love him even when it isn't terribly convenient for her.My only regret is that it looks like I may have a pretty long wait before I can read books two and three as they are not yet available and probably have not yet been written.  I'm assuming there will be three books in this series because there were three wounded soldiers who were introduced in the prequel.  If it turns out there are more than three books in the series I will probably purchase the others just as quickly.I don't believe I have ever looked forward to reading a series as much as I look forward to reading this one and even though I will have all these on my Kindle, I may have to go back and purchase the hard copy of all these books as well because this is a story I LOVE.  I think J. M. Madden knocked this one WAAAAY out of the ballpark.  I couldn't give these books a higher recommendation.  Oh, and all I can say to Ms. Madden is, "Please write fast.  I can't wait to read the stories about Chad and Duncan."