No Easy Answers

A married man meets the real love of his life and tries and fails to stay away from her. When their USAR unit is activated, staying away is no longer possible. The world at home collides with a war that brings confusion and danger for the reservists. A sophisticated look at a complicated set of circumstances, and the age-old desire to win, even if the deck is stacked against you.

My first book was a labor of love. Because of my experience in an actual Reserve unit, and how I let the characters direct the action, I had a hard time getting it on paper.

I was already concernced that people would think things in the book were real. The parts about Army procedures with Deployable Medical Systems were definitely real, and I never rewrote a word of that. I figured I remembered that best in 1996, the first time I wrote the book. The rest- well, if any of it happened, it didn't happen the way it's portrayed in the book. If a man did something that hurt me, I might have had the male lead do it to the heroine, or her friend. If I met a guy with eyes that made me melt, I might have given those eyes to a character. And I will tell you that the character of Jake was a bit of the best of every man I've ever met- and several that I only saw at the movies! Writers use what they know, but they also use what they can imagine. As I've said from the start- It could have happened. If anyone thinks it did, then I did my job as a writer!