The women of the Walker Air Force Base Library have their share of secrets. They wait. Their husbands and lovers are sent on missions that can last months at a time and take place in foreign countries around the world. And the women wait. They wait unwillingly. They wait for a return they dream of only to realize that the actual return is something they could not have foreseen. Ilsa Chisholm, director of library and information services at the base, awakens from a powerful dream, a dream so vivid that she cannot shake it while awake and working. She begins to write General Kevin Collins, the...