Sentimental
Journey
Home
Front
Book
One
Barbara
Bretton
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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