Deliverance

Jolene

Heʼs patient, kind, sweet and tender... with just enough swagger to make me absolutely weak in the knees. Absolutely nothing like my ex husband, and a role model Iʼd love my little girl Anna May to have for a father. But there is only one problem, he wonʼt fall in love. Not then, not

now and not ever.

I tell myself to forget him. I tell myself this chemistry I feel is totally one sided all these years weʼve danced around it. But then he shows back up out of the blue, sweeps me off my feet, steals mine and Anna Mayʼs heart without asking and still wonʼt promise to stay. Soon, he has me questioning if the demons I ran from in my past arenʼt safer than the future he canʼt, and wonʼt, promise me. And hell knows my past is a place I never dreamed Iʼd end up in again.

Troy

One word. Fear. Fear I wonʼt make it home. Fear Iʼll never make it back state side - and fear Iʼll never feel again the way Jolene Stewart makes me crave her next touch like Iʼm a fein needing my

next fix.

Sheʼs my kryptonite. My vice. The one thing that makes me secretly wish for tomorrows and forever afters when all Iʼve ever done is serve. Give without even a thought for my fellow man and country. But now, all I want is to stay with her and her daughter in this new world and home weʼve somehow created together.

But when her past comes calling and my next tour has me leaving the two girls I love more than

anything with the fear I wonʼt return, will she wait for me? Or will giving my heart away be worse than the fate that awaits me overseas?