Sentimental Journey : Home Front

Sentimental Journey : Home Front

<h2>Before they became The Greatest Generation, they were young men and women in love . . .</h2><p><b><i>The first book in Barbara Bretton's beloved Home Front Series</i></b><i> </i></p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>But then a telegram from the War Department arrives, shattering her dreams of a life like the one her mother treasures. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p><i>"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." </i></p><p><i>--Franklin Delano Roosevelt </i></p><p></p><h3>˃˃˃ A Desert Island Keeper - All About Romance</h3><p>Harlequin Award of Excellence</p><p>4.5 stars - RT Top Pick!</p><h3>˃˃˃ And the story continues with Stranger in Paradise (Home Front - Book 2)</h3><h2><u>Buy your copy now!</u></h2>