Set in 1979, Katie is a recently married small town girl, who enlists in the army in a desperate act to keep her home on the Oregon Coast out of foreclosure. Her husband, a lanky, sexy, gentle spirited crooner is the main attraction at a local bar where his band has a regular gig. Kris is also a Vietnam veteran who will always support the warrior, but never the war. When he learns that Katie has enlisted, he is determined, despite military regulations against it, to follow her to Missouri where she will undergo basic training.
"A rule is merely a suggestion," he tells her when she tries to stop him.
At basic he has confrontations with her drill sergeants and also her new pro-military friends, and the more she embraces her role as a soldier, the more he reveals his tortured war secrets. As tension builds between them, the peace activist and his gung-ho soldier girl desperately fight to stay in love.
"Jesus, Katie... you've upended the apple cart…"
This fictional tale, inspired by the author's own military experiences in basic training during the seventies, is a love story as much as it is a military story about women in the army during the early years of co-ed training.
This is book 1 of the Author's new Freedom Fighters series.