Collateral
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ellen Hopkins
Edition: 1st Atria books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books; Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781451626377; 9781451626384; 9781451626391
Subjects: Armed Forces; Man-woman relationships; Military life; United States. Marine Corps; Single women; Fiction; United States; Amerikanisches Englisch; Marines; Man-woman relationship; Novels in verse; Love stories
Description: Meet Ashley, a graduate student at San Diego State University. She was raised in northern California reading poetry and singing back-up in her best friend's band. The last thing she ever expected was to end up a military wife. But one night, she meets a handsome Marine named Cole. He doesn't match the stereotype of the aggressive military man she'd always presumed to be true; he's passionate and romantic, and he even writes poetry. Their relationship evolves into a deeply felt, sexually-charged love affair that goes on for five years and survives four deployments. Cole desperately wants Ashley to marry him, but when she meets another man, a college professor, with similar professional pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might be like outside the shadow of war.