My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a mother. I am a wife. In 2009, Army second lieutenant Jessica Scott deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. She thought deploying was the hardest thing she'd ever do. She was wrong. This is the story of a mother coming home from war and learning to be a mom again. This is the story of a lieutenant making the grade and becoming a company commander. This is the journey of a writer persevering through a hundred rejections. This is the story of a soldier learning to be a woman again. This is the story of a wife...
My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a mother. I am a wife. In 2009, Army second lieutenant Jessica Scott deployed to Iraq as part of Operat...
My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a wife. I am a mother. There are many stories from the Iraq war. This one is mine. In 2009, Army second lieutenant Jessica Scott deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. It was a year of many firsts. This is the first person journey through a combat tour in Iraq, through being a woman in the army and learning to be an officer in the unforgiving environment of a brigade combat team. This is the journey of a writer, learning to find her voice. This is the journey of a mother, confronting the emotions of leaving...
My name is Jessica Scott. I am a soldier. I am a wife. I am a mother. There are many stories from the Iraq war. This one is mine. In 2009, Army second...
Nuns are well known for teaching valuable lessons. This is a story patterned after the experience of one of the authors with her own Sister Mary Carlice. The wisdom of those lessons have reverberated through decades and guided those who were privileged to receive it. The story of the rich man and the beggar is timeless. It comes alive in a surprising way in this book.
Nuns are well known for teaching valuable lessons. This is a story patterned after the experience of one of the authors with her own Sister Mary Carli...
Stay focused. Get a job. Save her father's life. Beth Lamont knows far too much about the harsh realities of life her gilded classmates have only read about in class. She'll do whatever it takes to take care of her father, even if that means tutoring a guy like Noah - a guy who represents everything she hates about the war, soldiers and what the Army has done to her family. Noah Warren doesn't know how to be a student. All he knows is war. But he's going to college now to fulfill a promise and he doesn't break his promises. Except he doesn't count on his tutor being drop dead gorgeous and...
Stay focused. Get a job. Save her father's life. Beth Lamont knows far too much about the harsh realities of life her gilded classmates have only read...
Sister Mary Carlice is the best teacher at Our Lady Queen of Peace. When she teaches her students a Bible story, someone always learns a lesson. As she teaches her students about the Prodigal Son, the Duncan twins see the relationship of the parable to their own lives.
Sister Mary Carlice is the best teacher at Our Lady Queen of Peace. When she teaches her students a Bible story, someone always learns a lesson. As sh...
Violence. I'm addicted to it. It's how I feel alive. It's the only thing that's real any more. And now I have to sit around and discuss it like it's physics or calculus. I can't do it. I can't pretend that it's some sterile academic topic. Violence isn't sterile. It isn't calm. It's pulsing. It's alive. It's my drug. Until I met Abby, I never wanted anything beyond the next fight. Never considered that I might finally find a way back to the land of the living. Now? Now I find myself dreaming of a woman with golden eyes. But I can never be with her. Because I am not whole. And I never will be...
Violence. I'm addicted to it. It's how I feel alive. It's the only thing that's real any more. And now I have to sit around and discuss it like it's p...
Captain Sarah Anders lost her husband to the Iraq war and has nearly lost the career she loves. Sent to Fort Hood, she only wants to do her job and take care of the daughter she's raising on her own. She never counted on running straight into a memory she'd tried to forget.
A love he never forgot...
Captain Sean Nichols never got over Sarah. He simply tried to forget her amidst the war and the chaos of combat. But when she's assigned to investigate his unit, he comes face to face with the woman no war or any amount of time could make him forget.
A dark...
A terrible loss...
Captain Sarah Anders lost her husband to the Iraq war and has nearly lost the career she loves. Sent to Fort Hood, she only w...
Captain Sal Bello wants nothing more than to train his men for their upcoming deployment. But life at home is far more complicated for many of his men and Sal doesn't know how to stop the unraveling within his formation.
A warrior tested by combat...
First Sergeant Holly Washington has been baptized by fire and come out steel. She knows how to lead soldiers in combat and bring them safely home. But she's not prepared for the strain she finds in her soldiers and the weight carried by the one man she's not supposed to fall for.
A trial by fire......
A warrior focused on battle...
Captain Sal Bello wants nothing more than to train his men for their upcoming deployment. But life at home is far...
Whatever it takes, just come home to me. Promise me, Sam. In eight months, Staff Sergeant Sam Brown will become a father. But first, he has to survive his fourth tour in Iraq. On his last night home, he tries to pretend that everything is fine, that the war is fine, that his life is fine. But as he returns to the war zone, things are anything but fine and the promise he made to his fiance takes on a desperate edge. As things spiral down, Sam starts to wonder about that promise. How high is the price he will pay when the long night comes to an end?"
Whatever it takes, just come home to me. Promise me, Sam. In eight months, Staff Sergeant Sam Brown will become a father. But first, he has to survive...
