What Love Is
Carlyle Women Book 4
by Lyn Cote
Self Published
December 1, 2018
Available in: e-Book (reprint)
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What Love Is
by Lyn Cote
A troubling secret separates Carly from her mother Leigh and propels her down a dangerous path~
After surviving a childhood trauma, Carly is driven to test herself, trying to be free of the fear from the past. In 1989 at seventeen, instead of going off to college as expected, Carly does the completely unexpected. She enlists in the army which now is open to women. Her mother cannot reconcile her daughter's choice with her memories of the Vietnam era.
Arriving at bootcamp, Carly realizes she will finally get the challenge she has always wanted--to prove to herself that she need be afraid no more. Then serving in a motor pool, Carly faces hostility from the other soldiers, unused to women among them. But not all of them. She meets Bowie Jenkin and they fall in love. But Iraq's dictator invades Kuwait and turns world peace into open war.
As the battle lines form, Carly will face death and more--the revelations of the past. And in the end all four generations will confess their secrets and sins. Will they find forgiveness? Reconciliation? Or will the Carlyle family shatter?
"I love the depth of emotion with it. You can't help but feel the roller coaster of feelings in this book as the story unfolds and as it concludes."
The Carlyle Women-four generations,
each facing the challenges of her time
and each harboring her own painful secret~
Originally published April 2006 in trade paperback (The Women of Ivy Manor series) by FaithWords.
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Lyn Cote's Bio
USA Today best-selling author of over 40 romances, Lyn Cote writes award-winning contemporary and historical romance. Her brand is "Strong Women, Brave Stories." Her books feature a strong heroine, often a multi-cultural cast of characters and authentic history or contemporary life. She lives with her real life hero in a lakeside cottage in the northwoods with two fun cats. (She loves dogs too. :-)