Battle scars
By: by Meghan O'Brien
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Valley Falls, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781602821293
Subjects: Women veterinarians; Fiction; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Treatment; Women soldiers; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Veterans; Lesbians
Description: Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she has attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude. Struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety that plague her, she relies on her psychiatric therapy dog Jagger to help her through the vicious symptoms of PTSD. Veterinarian Dr. Carly Warner hasn't yet figured out how to open her heart to the possibility of falling in love again after the death of her longtime partner. When Ray walks into the North Coast Veterinary Clinic with Jagger, she and Carly begin a friendship that takes them both by surprise. Brought together by their shared love of dogs, Ray and Carly discover that they are both capable of moving forward, if only they are brave enough to try--Publisher's description.