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Available
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Publication
Silhouette (2003), Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Description
Eight years ago, Jessie Bauer's life had changed forever. Now it was about to change back. For the man she had loved with all her heart and soul - the one she had finally learned to live without - was coming home to her at last. Alive and in one piece - or was he? Military pilot Tristan Bauer had spent eight years in a living hell, not sure if he was dead or alive, with only the memory of his beautiful Jessie to keep him going. Now she was in front of him, his for the taking. If only he could. Because in every way that mattered, Tristan knew the husband he'd been had died that day. And left his ghost in his placeâe¦
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
A very odd book. It's marketed as a romance - and it does end up with the two main characters going for Happy Ever After together...but it's much more a study of PTSD and how (and how not) to handle it. Navy flier shot down over Iraq, presumed dead and held for eight years until he's accidentally
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(as a side effect of another mission) rescued. His wife and daughter have both grown up considerably since he was 'lost'; they all three have a lot of problems dealing with that simple fact. A lot about how he feels unclean because of the way he was treated; how his physical weakness translates into emotional weakness and he's fighting it; how he's looking for his old place in their lives and it's not there any more. The romance is kind of an afterthought - all the proper elements are there, they're just not front-and-center. Interesting book but I don't think I'll want to re-read it. Show Less
Awards
RITA Award (Finalist — 2004)
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Physical description
256 p.; 6.6 inches
ISBN
0373273320 / 9780373273324
Local notes
Starrs of the West, 2
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