i really enjoyed reading this book, the characters were great and I really enjoyed going on this journey with them. Overall it was a good read.

This story was poignant and real and utterly wonderful. I wish more romances focused on the post-World War 2 era. It is such a fascinating time, historically, This book bridges the present with the past, having Amy and Will tell the story of how they met and fell in love to the caretaker, a nurse who was in the military and is now suffering from PTSD.

Amy and Will's story is extremely compelling. In fact, when we'd switch back to the present, I'd get a little impatient with the story and want to find out more about what happened next. I was not nearly as invested in Callie and Michael (Amy and Will's grandson). That was the only thing that kept this from being a five star read for me.

I did not read the first story in this series before reading this - but it didn't impact my read. I found this to be a 100% standalone read.

I received this as an ARC from NetGalley - but these opinions are my own!

Another fantastic novel by Tracey L. Dragon in her Return to the Homefront series, following 4 years later after the events in Cherished Wings, the first book. This was a poignant story about the healing power of love. Callie Baldwin, is a former Army nurse who served in Afghanistan, but is suffering from PTSD now that she's returned home. She then decides to take on a safe, low-key nursing job which is caring for Will and Amy Henderson, an elderly couple who are long time friends of her family. While Callie enjoys taking care of them, she doesn't take too kindly at their grandson, successful surgeon, Dr. Michael Henderson, who likes to get under her skin, as she finds him annoying and up himself. In an attempt to help Callie come to terms with her wartime experience, Will and Amy share their heartfelt love story that began in 1948. It is Post World War Two in Albion, New York. Many veterans are returning, and are trying to go on with their lives as best as they can whilst readjusting themselves back into civilian life. But the horrors of war are never far from their minds. Amy Lake, who appeared in the first Return to the Homefront Series novel, Cherished Wings as Fran's best friend, this is her story now. Amy has been embittered by her recent divorce from her cheating and abusive ex husband, Rob Boyd. Amy is now rebuilding her life by parenting her son Thomas alone, and making ends meet by working shifts at Ray's Diner on weekends, whilst also trying to hold down her unsuccessful small farm. She then meets Will and his best friend Travis at a local dance she attends with Fran. Will Henderson is an emotionally and physically scarred Marine. He tries desperately to put the war behind him and move on with his life. Hearing Amy's plight, Will helps her out on her farm as he is farm boy at heart, a Midwesterner who grew up in Ohio, with farming in his blood. The two then become friends as they work together, and have mutual friends in common, but then their relationship slowly progresses to romance. However, both Will and Amy have been scarred by their respective experiences, and believe they are broken. But they help each other to overcome their demons. Hearing their story, Callie becomes awed by its beauty and richness, as she slowly starts healing. She also sees Michael in a more positive light, as they work together.