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A Gentle Bravery
Paperback
Series: The Home Fires Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 29 2020
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jane Howard never thought of herself as brave. Then the war came home.
All her life, Jane has felt second best.
Too curvy. Too ordinary. Too easily overlooked beside her sister.
Morgan never saw her that way.
He saw the woman Jane struggled to see in herself, and when he accepts a job on Wake Island in 1941, Jane consoles herself with dreams of his return and the life they'll finally build together.
December 7 changes everything.
For days, Jane haunts the library, searching the newspapers for scraps of news from across the Pacific.
Wake holds.
Until it doesn't.
And a telegram finally brings the words Jane has been dreading.
Morgan is gone.
As America goes to war, Jane discovers that grief doesn't stop the world from moving. Factories need workers. Soldiers need supplies. Families need hope.
So Jane trades the future she planned for work as a riveter and learns, one day at a time, how to keep going.
Then, wounded serviceman Charles arrives in town.
He already knows Jane's name from his sister's letters. He knows something of the grief she carries. What Jane doesn't know is that Charles has responsibilities of his own-and his new position at the factory involves far more than supervising a wartime production line.
Someone is sabotaging the plant.
As hostility from a local German-American organization threatens members of their community and unexplained incidents inside the factory become increasingly dangerous, Jane accidentally finds herself drawn into Charles's investigation.
She should leave the dangerous work to someone else.
Instead, Jane begins noticing things.
Asking questions.
Taking risks.
And saving lives.
Working together draws Jane and Charles closer, but loving again feels like another kind of betrayal. Jane isn't certain her battered heart has room for a future she never planned-and Charles has his work cut out for him convincing a woman who has spent a lifetime doubting herself that he sees someone extraordinary.
But the enemy they're hunting is closer than either realizes.
An ally disappears.
Jane and Charles are attacked.
And when Jane herself vanishes, the investigation becomes a desperate race against time.
The woman who once believed she wasn't brave enough for anything may be the very person standing between innocent lives and disaster.
Because courage doesn't always arrive with a uniform.
Sometimes it wears work clothes.
Sometimes it carries a rivet gun.
And sometimes the gentlest heart discovers that bravery was there all along.
A Gentle Bravery is Book One of The Home Fires Trilogy, a faith-filled World War II historical romance about grief, courage, sabotage, friendship, and finding the strength to love-and live-again.
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