Explore the tragedies, relationships, and resilient qualities of the characters in a small-town community who learn to value the resolve and connectedness that develops as they overcome adversity in the touching new novel, "To Welcome You Home."

The author Jackie-Lynn M. Brown, PhD, found through her studies that prior-service members and civilians all react to unforseen tragedies in unique and personal ways.

Meet Pops, a prior US Marine, whose heartbreaking loss suddenly leaves him as a single father caring for and raising his first-born son; Alex and Homer, two Army buddies who...