Grand Central Publishing
Featuring: Peter Becker; Olivia Marsten
368 pages ISBN: 1455527327 EAN: 9781455527328 Kindle: B00GG0H420 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Olivia Marsten's life is pretty simple and happy. She is
living in a small town in the Midwest when World War II
breaks out. In order to help with the war effort, she
takes a job at the local hardware store, maintains a
victory garden, and heads up the recycling drives in her
town. One day her best friend, Billy, who is about to go
off to war himself, decides to propose marriage to her.
Olivia has never been in love and she is not really sure
that she has romantic feelings for him. But if she says no
to Billy's proposal, will it ruin their friendship?
One day after Billy's proposal, Olivia is almost run over
by a drunk driver and handsome stranger named Peter swoops
into town and saves Olivia's life. As she spends more time
with Peter she realizes that she is attracted to this new
man in her life much more so than her best friend Billy. A
good part of the story is taken up with Olivia trying to
decide what to do about these two men in her life.
Peter is immediately smitten with Olivia, but he has a
secret. If he tells her who he really is, then the truth
could cost him the chance of being with Olivia. Peter was
captured in the war in France and now he is a prisoner of
the United States. But on the way to the POW camp, his
train is derailed and he escapes with another prisoner.
Peter's father is actually an American so Peter sounds
American and there is nothing about him that gives away his
true identity.
TAKE ME HOME started out with a very strong and promising
plot. But the second half of the story that is centered in
Millers Creek becomes very stagnant. I was tired of
reading about Olivia's dilemma over the two men in her
life. Despite the fact that some parts of the novel were
slow, TAKE ME HOME has a unique perspective for an
historical novel set during World War II.
TAKE ME HOME Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal, she reluctantly accepts. She can't bear to send him off to serve in the Navy with a broken heart . . . even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. He never hesitated to pull her out of harm's way-risking his own life to save hers. Yet as kind as he is handsome, Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's army to protect his German mother. Now an escaped POW, he's determined to spend every moment he can with beautiful Olivia before he must turn himself in. But a dangerous enemy Peter knows all too well is on the loose, threatening the fragile future he and Olivia are building together. What happens when the truth of Peter's identity comes to light? And can their love withstand it?
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