Sharon Kimbra Walsh

For the Love of a Marine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Afghanistan, a land of relentless temperatures, dust and sand with danger lurking at every turn and at every footfall, and a war that does not discriminate between enemy, friends or lovers.

Life on deployment is traumatic and fraught for Corporal Katie Walker, a career British Army Combat Trauma Medic. There is no time for relationships, they would create more complications than she can handle. Giving your heart to someone is to risk losing them and she has no intention of taking that enormous chance.

However, in the most unlikeliest of places she meets US Marine Staff Sergeant Joe Anderson, a hardened, grizzled veteran and a 'by the book' career Marine. Committed to his mistress, the US Marine Corp, he has never wanted a woman until he meets the pretty medic.

Attraction between them is instantaneous and intense but living their lives on the edge, away from loved ones and the warmth of home, is what Katie and Joe feeling real or an illusion? When denial of their feelings overcomes duty and danger, they come to realise that love can bloom and flourish, bringing to two people a small piece of happiness and warmth amidst hardship and terror.

Born on the foundations of combat with its harsh realities, cruel environment and conflict, can their deep love for each other survive or is it destined to perish, destroyed by tragedy and loss?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784307325
• Artikelnr.: 43734255

Autorenporträt

Born Sharon Kimbra Walsh (and using her maiden name as her pen name) in Essex, England (a typical Essex girl) on 30 September 1959, Sharon was brought up on Canvey Island, Essex by her parents together with her young sister Tracy.

As a teenager, Sharon wrote stories on anything that would take a pen or pencil, from horror stories to children's stories, driving her parents to distraction in the process. A bit of a rebel, and much to her parents' disbelief, at the age of fourteen, Sharon fixated on the idea of joining the Women's Royal Air Force. At that age and armed with everything that might impress the RAF recruitment office, she dragged her wary parents along for moral support and presented herself for an immediate sign up. She was advised that she was a little too young to join the military and was sent away, a little disheartened and invited to come back when she was eighteen. This she did and on 6 June 1978, took the oath to fight and protect Queen and country.

Sharon spent eight and a half years in the Women's Royal Air Force and was finally honourably discharged in August 1986. She thereafter trained as a Legal Secretary, firstly working in London and then when she met her husband in 2002 online, moving to Scotland to work in Edinburgh and to settle there. Already loving the country after having been stationed there during her time in the military, Sharon has never looked back. She lives with her disabled husband Peter and rescue West Highland Terrier Snowie (who thinks that she is a Rottweiler in disguise) in a semi-rural town called Glenrothes in Fife.

In 2014 and after decades of not having the 'urge' to write, Sharon started to have day and night visions of writing a contemporary military romance. The ideas started to pile up and there was nothing for it but to get them down on her laptop, regardless of time and place.

For the Love of a Marine-her debut novel-was written in the early hours of every morning for six months, huge headphones plugged to her ears writing each chapter to inspirational music and loving writing every minute of it as she drew on all her memories and experience of military life and writing from the heart.