Heroes in Peace and War

This book is a love story and contains sketches of different military families deployed in Germany.

It is a novel about a young widow and her trip, visiting her military family members in Germany to escape the reminders of her loss at home and revisiting places she had lived earlier in life, renewing old friendships and forming new ones.

A red cord woven all through the stories, is the new friendship with a young soldier with an unsettled situation he chooses to keep secret for a time, causing the heroine consternation and doubt along the way. It is finally resolved, but then, Desert Shield and Desert Storm interfere with a solution.

Escaping battles without a scratch, the soldier returns to Germany to suffer life-threatening injuries in a car accident.

But the widow’s trip into the past leads her into a bright future in the end.