When We Meet Again

by Carla Kelly

Overview

If you must fight a war, make it good one, so you can entertain admiring children and grandchildren years in the future.

What if your World War II stories are nothing more glamorous than an aircraft factory in boring Kansas, or a sugar beet farm in Southeast Wyoming

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684920167
Publisher:	Camel Press
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

A well-known veteran of the romance writing field, Carla Kelly has authored forty-five novels and three non-fiction works, as well as numerous short stories and articles for various publications. She is the recipient of two RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Regency of the Year; two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America; three Whitney Awards, 2011, 2012, and 2014; and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. Carla's interest in historical fiction is a byproduct of her lifelong study of history. She's held a variety of jobs, including medical public relations work, feature writer and columnist for a North Dakota daily newspaper, and ranger in the National Park Service at Fort Laramie National Historic Site and Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. She worked for the North Dakota Historical Society as a contract researcher. Interest in the Napoleonic Wars led to numerous novels about the Royal Navy Channel Fleet during that conflict. Carla has also written novels set in Wyoming during the Indian wars, and in the early twentieth century that focus on her interest in ranching. Why WWII? Both of Carla's parents served in the U.S. Navy during the war, her father in the South Pacific. Carla's mother, a Navy WAVE, became the Navy's first female bombardier.

Editorial Reviews

RITA and Spur Award-winning Kelly delivers two romantic novellas set against the backdrop of America's home front during WWII. In "All My Love," WAC clerk-typist Veronica "Ronnie" Green's routine daily duties at the North American Aviation plant take an unexpected romantic detour when she meets MP Sergeant Ernie Brown on the bus. In "Yet I Will Love Him," war widow Audrey Nolan Allerton returns home to her father's farm in Wyoming, only to find her quiet life turned upside down when the farmers in Goshen County, including Audrey's father, begin using German prisoners of war as farm labor. With her superb command of historical details and a flair for crafting compelling characters, Kelly (Her Smile, 2021) effectively immerses readers in day-to-day efforts of Americans trying to do their part to win the war. Especially noteworthy is the quietly powerful and often poignant way in which Kelly underscores how everyone has a story to tell.

- John Charles ALA Booklist

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