Home Front Lines

by Brenda Sparks Prescott

Overview

It's 1962. Betty Ann Johnson is an African American military spouse on an Air Force base outside Washington, DC. Sisters Lola, Chita, and Rosita are the proud keepers of the Montero name in Matanzas, Cuba.

 

Betty Ann gets wind that military preparations are ramping up for something more than just practice drills. Fearing that the Soviet presence in Cuba has become a tangible threat, she and a small band of military spouses, without telling their husbands, put together an evacuation plan for their children. At the same time in Cuba, Lola is asked to cook for the Soviet soldiers amassing there and accidentally witnesses a Soviet missile installation. She tells her sisters, and they devise a way to send their children to Florida on a boat, while keeping this plan from their husbands.

 

Betty Ann Johnson and the Montero sisters may be on opposite sides of a life-threatening conflict, but they share the same heart when it comes to protecting their children.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165218934
Publisher:	Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	590 KB

About the Author

Brenda Sparks Prescott lives and writes in eastern Massachusetts and southern Vermont. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Louisville Review, Crab Orchard Review, Portland Magazine, and the anthology Soap Opera Confidential. Brenda is co-chief editor of Solstice Literary Magazine, an advisory board member for the Solstice MFA in creative writing program, and a founding member of Simply Not Done, a women's writing collaborative. Brenda's family has a long history of military service, with records stretching back to the Civil War.