Jessica Scott takes on a masculine subject, wartime, and
brings the female viewpoint, showing us the difficulty of a
wife waiting for her husband to come home, or a mother
deployed to a war zone and only able to Skype her children.
In BACK TO YOU we meet Trent, who hasn't explained to his
wife that he keeps volunteering. Trent was seriously injured
last time out, but a sense of survivor's guilt and team
spirit keeps him selfishly driving himself apart from his
family. Laura thinks he has done more than enough, so he
pretends he has no choice but to go to Iraq.
Trent is posted back to a US training facility for a
disciplinary matter and the truth comes out; Laura is so
furious and disappointed that she files for divorce. Trent
does nothing to help himself, and Laura decides to move on
mentally, trying to protect the two kids from her
bitterness. Knowing that he got it wrong for years, Trent
wishes he could turn back the clock.
Family Readiness Liaison is a task Laura had taken on, and
she still adheres to this job, trying to help other
families despite the "do you know who my husband is?"
types. One motor pool female clerk falsely accused Trent
of inappropriate conduct to protect someone else accused
of stealing. If Trent can convince his seniors that he's so
in love with Laura that he'd never look at another woman,
he can destroy this story. He does love his wife, but he
knows it would be wrong to use her in this way. Even if
she would let him in the door.
I found the characters of BACK TO YOU highly realistic. The
army has caught Trent up in its machinery and only when the
cogs get stuck does Trent realise how impersonal and massive
this machine really is. He's just another gearwheel. At this
stage we can get to know the real Trent, not the company
commander. It's easy to sympathise with Laura. She's been
supportive and loyal; doesn't she deserve better? She feels
that Trent might as well have been cheating on her all these
years. The two kids are well drawn, squabbling over who gets
to sit on the lap of the daddy they barely know.
BACK TO YOU, an adult romance, might have gone in several
directions, but for the fact that Laura had no other partner
in mind. If she really had moved on, Trent's marriage would
have been just one more casualty of war. BACK TO YOU by
Jessica Scott will please the fans of her book To Iraq And
Back while showing the other side of the story.
He's in for the fight of his life . . .
Army captain Trent Davila loved his wife, Laura, and their
two beautiful children. But when he almost lost his life in
combat, something inside him died. He couldn't explain the
emptiness he felt or bridge the growing distance between him
and his family-so he deployed again. And again. And
again...until his marriage reached its breaking point. Now,
with everything on the line, Trent has one last chance to
prove to his wife that he can be the man she needs ...if
she'll have him
. . . to win back his only love.
Laura is blindsided when Trent returns home. Time and again,
he chose his men over his family, and she's just beginning
to put the pieces of her shattered heart back together. But
when Trent faces a court martial on false charges, only
Laura can save him. What begins as an act of kindness to
protect his career inflames a desire she thought long
buried-and a love that won't be denied. But can she trust
that this time he's back to stay?
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