Woman Veteran

Read by Julia Whelan, including an Author's Note read by Kristin, revealing her inspiration for telling the women's heroic stories, which had been either forgotten or entirely overlooked. From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One...

I’m a soldier looking for a second chance. She’s the woman whose heart I broke. My final mission—win back my cupcake. Four years ago, I faced an impossible choice. I left the mountain, my MC, and Sydney, the woman I loved. Now I’m back as security for the brewery where she works, and the tension is thick between us. Someone’s siphoning beer in the dead of night, the security cameras aren’t working, and every clipped order she barks makes me want to pin her against a fermenter and remind her who we were. Protecting the brew is the job. Winning back my cupcake? That’s a mission ...

After their last deployment, when she got shot, her fiancé, Martinez, got killed, and his bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis, got depressed, soldier Mercy Carr and Elvis were both sent home, her late lover’s last words ringing in her ears: “Take care of my partner.” On the Fourth of July weekend, when all of Northshire celebrates with fun and frolic and fireworks, the dog alerts to explosives and they find a squalling baby abandoned near a shallow grave filled with what appear to be human bones.

Join me, a fellow survivor of PTSD and passionate advocate for female veterans, on a journey of hope, resilience, and growth. You will unlock the secrets of sustained progress and harness the mighty power of dopamine to conquer procrastination and ignite unwavering motivation. You will learn the challenges that female veterans face and strategies that you can use to overcome them. Your journey will encompass more than just dealing with your illness. It will also involve your physical, social, and spiritual evolution as you will learn new skills and befriend other travelers. If you are a ...

At 25, after five years as her mother’s caregiver, it’s time for Shelby to experience freedom and adventure. Time for travel, college, and romance. But when she visits Virgin River, she runs into Luke Riordan, decidedly not whom she has in mind. A handsome Blackhawk pilot, Luke exited the army after 20 years, four wars, and having been shot out of the sky three times. At 38 he’s tough and jaded. His major was in one-night stands, with a minor in commitment avoidance.

What's meant to be will always find a way. ~Unknown The military can teach you mental toughness, but not the ways to change your heart's true desire. Keisha Gaines and Greg Jordan didn't know that meeting five years ago would lead to a lasting friendship. Close friendships are amazing until one person develops deeper feelings than the other. This is the dilemma Keisha finds herself struggling to handle. After five years of being nothing more than Greg's best friend, and wanting so much more, Keisha decides to move on with her life. She knows leaving Greg behind will allow her heart to heal....

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What is the price of honor? It took 10 years for Vietnam War Nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question - and the answer was a heavy one.

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.

After spending years in prison for a crime she didn’t intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows about the good work she has done - training therapy dogs while serving time - has arranged for her early release. This mysterious benefactor has even set her up with a job in the coastal Massachusetts community of Gloucester, on the edge of Dogtown, a place of legend and, for the first time since Rosie's whole world came crashing down, hope.

A ranch in Wyoming becomes the backdrop for a heartwarming love story, where wounded heroes and strong women form a makeshift family. Charge forward, attack, and take the enemy down! Gideon Beck always dreamed of being an Airborne Army Ranger, but when his chute failed to open, he was just lucky to be alive. Now, at his sister’s tearful request, he was holed away in some remote location to heal. This was not quite what he expected, nor did he anticipate his roommate, Chris, to be a girl. Back away and extend a hand gently toward the wounded animal. Christina took one look at the man ...

Bob Hasett, a Vietnam veteran with a tortured past, relocates from his uncle’s cattle ranch in Southern Arizona to the oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska. He wants only to live quietly and grieve the death of his wife, but when he is given a job as the head of security, familiar demons demand he choose between the life he thought he wanted and doing the right thing. Set against the frenetic pace of the early Alaska pipeline days, this story places crime, survival and a strong Inupiat woman directly in Bob’s path. He finds himself confronted with tough ethical and moral choices in a...

The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked up its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW/MIA movement. When the survivors finally returned, one would receive the Medal of Honor, another became a U.S. Senator, and a third still serves in Congress.

When his best friend is in peril, a grumpy ex-military hero is honored to protect her. This might be a chance for them to be more than friends—or a chance to get killed. After a patient nearly told her a secret before dying, small-town nurse Kaylee Byrne is attacked and runs for her life—right into the arms of the friend she has a crush on. It’s difficult to stay an eternal optimist under flying bullets, and even more difficult not to fall for her protector. Together with his service dog, Roswell Stutton is the newest member of the Honor Team. He doesn’t expect his first assignment ...

It's the late 1990s—Tupac is taking over radio waves, Inkster, Michigan is as Midwest as ever, and a young Khadijah Queen has just been recruited to join the U.S. Navy while working her day job at RadioShack. In light of her dwindling college tuition fund, her mother’s alcoholism and sisters’ addictions, and an impending future of minimum wage retail jobs, Bootcamp doesn’t sound so bad. But soon after Khadijah completes her grueling training and boards her ship, finds herself in even more traumatic situations among strangers far from home.

September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world’s most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously.

For this mission, they’ll risk their lives. For each other, they’ll risk their hearts. Buddy Rider's little Cessna spotter aircraft was shot down twice over the jungles of Vietnam, and ten years later he’s flying crop dusters for a living while tinkering with an old WWII transport aircraft. He avoids the painful memories of the war, the bad times, and the loss of friends, until a young woman comes to his aircraft hangar in search of him. Elizabeth Anderson is a lay nun dedicated to aiding the helpless, and her immediate task is to rescue fellow missionaries and orphans trapped in war-...

Courage in Camouflage II is a follow-up to the first set of soldier stories published two years ago in the original Courage in Camouflage. Both collections are based on individual interviews with military veterans young and old from all across the United States. Most of these brave men and women served considerable time in combat during sometimes historic battles in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and the protracted fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Most all have gone on to successful lives outside the military, but things they saw and did ...

Brutally groomed to be a weapon under their control, would she be the key to her own survival? Every second of Tina Soctoy’s life was ruled by terror. Succumbing to the toll of constant abuse and merciless training, the abducted little girl’s sudden scarily realistic visions began to rattle her cruel captors. Demanding domination over her inexplicable gift, they subjected her to relentless psychological enslavement aimed at completely breaking her down. Taught how to kill people with only a knife, Tina learned how to survive enemy assassins. But her growing mental abilities are starting...