Veteran Home

Braxton Stone’s arrival at High Home signals a reckoning for the ruthless motorcycle gang that controls the region. No longer can they terrorize the town with impunity—if they expose themselves for even a moment, Braxton is ready to strike. But the gang remains entrenched behind fortified defenses along the town’s perimeter. No matter how many men or horses Braxton can rally, a frontal assault would be suicide. To gain the upper hand against a superior force, Braxton is pushed toward increasingly creative—and dangerous—strategies. His first move: find Oliver Fuentes and bring him ...

This book discusses how military veterans can purchase a home and invest in real estate, starting with their VA Home Loan and then pivoting to other types of financing. This book also explores new perspectives on wealth-building and financial freedom that are uniquely available to military veterans, from mere ideological perspectives and character traits to actual VA-secured loan guarantees. Learn to re-define and exterminate bad debt and liabilities from your life and investment portfolio...and capitalize on the applications of good debt, assets, equity, and cash flow. This book also ...

Beware the blackbirds… It’s Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr’s small cabin. She needs more room—and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for...

Six men. Twelve days. Triple-canopy jungle. No one who wasn't there will ever know what happened. March 1968. Daniel Croft — callsign Ghost — inserts into the Central Highlands of Vietnam as point man for a six-man LRRP team. His job is simple and impossible: move through enemy territory without being seen, gather intelligence no conventional unit can reach, and bring his men home. Ghost is the best point man in F Company, 51st Infantry. He reads the jungle the way he read elk country in the Pryor Mountains of Montana — not by thinking, but by being present in a way most men never ...

Vietnam, 1968. Daniel Cofield is nineteen years old, a helicopter crew chief with the 1st Cavalry Division. He will spend twelve months in the air above a war that will never leave him. Daniel arrives at Bien Hoa with sixty-two pounds of gear and no understanding of what waits for him. He is assigned to a Huey helicopter crew — Chalk One — under a pilot who communicates in three taps on the cyclic and says almost nothing else. His crew chief, Lou, teaches him the only rule that matters: The gun wants to fire. You just let it. Over twelve months, Daniel flies into landing zones where the...

June 1966. Hollis Caudill, nineteen years old, stands in the open door of a Huey and learns what the valley costs. He is a door gunner with the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion, flying resupply and extraction missions into the Vinh Thanh Valley during Operation Crazy Horse — one of the bloodiest helicopter operations of the Vietnam War. He has an M60, a crew chief who speaks in facts rather than comfort, and a 1964 Ford Galaxie waiting under a tarp at home in West Virginia. By the time the operation ends, he will have carried the dead from a burning ridge, watched a ship go down in a ...

Volume six of The Things Our Fathers Saw World War II oral history series. In The Bulge and Beyond, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called "Battle of the Bulge". You will be with them as they feel the sense the fear of the unknown, the crush of impending doom, the scale of being amongst the columns of young, tired men slogging into a forest, medieval and dark, with the complete inability to ever get warm again.19,000 American GIs never saw their mothers again.

It’s been 366 days since I laid eyes on my wife. And 364 more before I’m scheduled to return home… Tragedy changed Malaysia’s plans. On the journey home, she was filled with sorrow and joy tugging at her heart. She hadn’t slept in a week because of the trauma, and was looking forward to the only person she knew could give her peace—her wife. She’d need her more than ever now and hoped their love could withstand the changes that were her new existence.

November 1965. The Central Highlands. Ray Halvorsen, nineteen years old, lies in a shallow hole at Landing Zone X-Ray while mortar rounds walk across the elephant grass and the man beside him prays in a voice Ray cannot hear. Before the sun comes up, Ray will fire his rifle at a shape in the grass and watch it stop moving. Before the week is over, he will walk the column to Landing Zone Albany and learn why half the men around him will never walk out of it. Sixteen months earlier, a letter from the Webster County Local Board arrived on a Tuesday in late July at a farm outside Corwin, Iowa. ...

Marriage was supposed to be their forever. But forever doesn’t come without a fight… After a dreamy wedding and a breathtaking honeymoon, Emma Rodriguez-Martinez and Jake Martinez were supposed to finally have their happily ever after. But real life doesn’t wait—and neither do the demons Jake carried home from war. Just weeks after saying I do, the cracks begin to show. Jake is trying to heal—therapy, honesty, consistency—but happiness feels dangerous, and peace feels like a trap. When the pressure becomes too much, he shuts down… and this time, Emma breaks with him. Emma ...

Love was supposed to heal them. But some scars never fade. 🔥 Jake Martinez thought coming home and finding love again would fix everything. But when old ghosts from his past return, he realizes that healing isn’t as simple as falling in love. Emma Rodriguez has stood by his side through it all—his nightmares, his doubts, his silence. But as Jake’s inner fire starts to burn out, she’s forced to ask herself: how far can love go before it breaks? When a dangerous secret from Jake’s time in the Marines threatens to shatter their fragile peace, both must confront what it means to ...

When Ron Zaleski returned home from his service to the Marine Corps in 1972, he was plagued by feelings of anger and guilt. As an act of penance, in 2006 he walked barefoot across the Appalachian Trail, where he learned self-forgiveness, empathy, and found a purpose greater than himself. In 2010, he upped the stakes and walked barefoot from Concord, MA to Santa Monica, CA. He traversed over 3,400 miles without shoes, all the while carrying a sign that read "18 Vets a Day Commit Suicide!" and a petition for military personnel to receive mandatory counseling.

Vietnam, 1968. Carl Hayes is nineteen years old, from Macon, Georgia, and has thirteen months to survive. Assigned to an infantry squad in the Mekong Delta, Carl carries sixty-one pounds on his back and everything else where it doesn't show. A pebble from a dead friend's hand. Unsent letters in a plastic bag. A photograph of a woman he's not sure will wait. The quiet teachings of a sergeant who speaks in silences and keeps men alive by reading the ground the way other men read books. Over thirteen months with the 25th Infantry Division, Carl will learn what the jungle sounds like when it ...

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative.

Their love survived distance, secrets, scars, and fire. Now it’s time to build the life they’ve fought so hard for. 💍❤️ After everything they’ve endured, Jake Martinez and Emma Rodriguez are finally standing on steady ground. Their future is bright, hopeful, and full of the family they’ve always dreamed of. With a baby on the way and vows to renew, life should feel perfect. But forever doesn’t happen by accident— it happens by choice. Every single day. As Jake prepares to step fully into a new chapter of his life, memories from his past still linger—shadows he thought ...

He came home to find peace. He found her instead. And this time, he’s not letting go. 💞 After years of longing, Jake Martinez and Emma Rodriguez finally stopped fighting fate. Their forbidden love turned real, fiery, and unstoppable. But falling in love was the easy part—staying in love, when the world is watching, is a whole new battle. Jake is still finding his place after leaving the Marines, haunted by memories that won’t let him rest. Emma, a devoted teacher and his sister’s best friend, wants to believe love can heal them both—but life in their small San Diego community ...

Unlock the Secret to Homeownership with the Benefit You’ve Already Earned For over 80 years, the VA Home Loan program has helped millions of veterans, active-duty service members, and military families achieve the American dream of homeownership. Yet far too many eligible heroes never take full advantage of this powerful benefit—often because of myths, confusion, or lack of clear guidance. VA Home Loan Secrets is your step-by-step roadmap to buying your first or next home with confidence. Written in plain, practical language, this guide takes you inside the VA loan process from start to...

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’—and nation’s—unhealed traumas In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and...

No Safe Place – Episode One: Discharge By Riley Dakota Approx. 25,000 words (about 100 pages) I wrote this on borrowed time. On the edge of the world. In shelters. In silence. In pain. This is fiction. Or nonfiction. Or whatever the hell you need it to be. - Riley From a battlefield in Afghanistan to the broken streets of Los Angeles—this is how survival actually looks. Riley Dakota is a combat vet. A mother-to-be. Homeless. Unfiltered. And one wrong breath away from breaking. There’s no welcome home. No medals that matter. Just flashbacks, fear, and a man she loves slowly slipping ...

"The book that America needs right now." --Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest Generation "Jake Wood offers one of the most soaring definitions of service I've ever seen." --Maria Shriver, award-winning journalist and author of I've Been Thinking From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a...