ASIN: B00JIATJR8
Publisher: Crooked River Publishing
Pages: N/A
Rosalie Evans, bookseller, rescues an old photo album from a rummage sale and returns it to the elderly owner. The story behind a photo of two young women reveals years of hope, desperation, betrayal and everlasting love. In 1937, seventeen-year old Ivy Reese dreams of leaving her family's desolate ranch in southern Oregon. The Great Depression and drought has forced the region to its knees, but Ivy's widowed mother is determined to hang onto the ranch. A shameful secret leads to Ivy's escape to a life of promise; however, when World War II erupts Ivy is caught far from home, trapped in the killing fields of the Pacific. Survival seems impossible, but Ivy is determined to live to see her own sweet love again.
