Sentimental Journey
Home Front
Book One
Barbara Bretton
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Genre: World War 2 Romance
Publisher: Free Spirit Press
Date of Publication: October 15, 2014
ISBN: 9781940665078
ASIN: B00MT9H93Q
Number of pages: 347
Word Count: approx. 70000
Cover Artist: Tammy Seidick
Book Description:
Before they became The Greatest
Generation, they were young men and women in love . . .
It's June 1943. From New York to
California, families gather to send their sons and husbands, friends and lovers
off to war. The attack on Pearl Harbor seems a long time ago as America begins
to understand that their boys won't be home any time soon.
In Forest Hills, New York City,
twenty-year-old Catherine Wilson knows all about waiting. She's been in love
with boy-next-door Doug Weaver since childhood, and if the war hadn't started
when it did, she would be married and maybe starting a family, not sitting at
the window of her girlhood bedroom, waiting for her life to begin.
But then a telegram from the War
Department arrives, shattering her dreams of a life like the one her mother
treasures.
Weeks drift into months as she struggles
to find her way. An exchange of letters with Johnny Danza, a young soldier in
her father's platoon, starts off as a patriotic gesture, but soon becomes a
long-distance friendship that grows more important to her with every day that
passes.
The last thing Catherine expects is to
open her front door on Christmas Eve to find Johnny lying unconscious on the
Wilsons' welcome mat with a heart filled with new dreams that are hers for the
taking.
"This generation of Americans has a
rendezvous with destiny."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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About the
Author:
A full-fledged Baby Boomer, Barbara
Bretton grew up in New York City during the Post-World War II 1950s with the
music of the Big Bands as the soundtrack to her childhood. Her father and
grandfather served in the navy during the war. Her uncles served in the army.
None of them shared their stories.
But her mother, who had enjoyed a brief
stint as Rosie the Riveter, brought the era to life with tales of the Home
Front that were better than any fairy tale. It wasn’t until much later that
Barbara learned the rest of the story about the fiancé who had been lost in the
war, sending her mother down a different path that ultimately led to a second
chance at love . . . and to the daughter who would one day tell a little part
of that story.
There is always one book that’s very
special to an author, one book or series that lives deep inside her heart. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY and STRANGER IN
PARADISE, books 1 and 2 of the Home Front series, are Barbara’s. She hopes
they’ll find a place in your heart too.
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