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Life in Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, in 1945 is focused entirely on the war. Olivia Marsten does everything she can for the war effort and to support Billy, her childhood best friend who's leaving soon for Navy training. Then Billy confesses he's been in love with her for years and proposes. Olivia accepts, but she knows it isn't right. How do you break your best friend's heart, especially when you're secretly in love with a stranger?
Author Notes
Dorothy Garlock is a Texas native living in Clear Lake, Iowa, who quit her job as a newspaper columnist and reporter at the age of 49 to write novels. She entered her first novel in a contest and lost, but she sold the book. Now, over twenty years later, she has millions of copies in print and has had her work translated into 18 languages.
So many of her more than 40 books are set in the Old West that Dorothy Garlock has come to be classified as a Western Romance writer. She is a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Popular titles include Almost Eden, The Listening Sky, and Larkspur. With Hope is a gritty, unsentimental romance set in the Great Depression.
Dorothy Garlock also writes under the names Dorothy Glenn, Dorothy Philips and Johanna Phillips.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Booklist Review
Popular and prolific Garlock (Under a Texas Sky, 2013) presents a war romance set in a small Wisconsin town in 1945. When her childhood best friend, Billy, proposes, Olivia feels bound to accept, even though she doesn't love him in that way. Then, as he prepares to go to war, Olivia falls for a handsome stranger, Peter, who saves her life on his first day in town. What Peter hasn't told her is that as the son of an American soldier and German woman, he was raised in Germany and forced to fight for Hitler's army. He was brought to America as a prisoner of war and escaped with another German, Otto, during the chaos of a train crash. The love triangle between Olivia, Billy, and Peter is further complicated when his enemy begins to terrorize the town. This melodramatic but ultimately pleasing story fits right into Garlock's canon of Americana romance.--Walker, Aleksandra Copyright 2014 Booklist
