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I knew on the day of the attack that our lives were changed forever. What I didn't know then was that I'd never see John again after he deployed. One day he was living with me, sleeping next to me, making plans with me. The next day he was gone.
That was five years ago. The world has moved on from that awful day, but I'm stuck in my own personal hell, waiting for a man who may be dead for all I know. At my sister's wedding, I meet Eric, the brother of the groom, and my heart comes alive once again.
The world is riveted by the capture of the terrorist mastermind, brought down by U.S. Special Forces in a daring raid. Now I am trapped between hoping I'll hear from John and fearing what'll become of my new life with Eric if I do.
From a New York Times bestselling author, Five Years Gone is an epic story of love, honor, duty, unbearable choices and impossible dilemmas.
Author Notes
Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 contemporary romances, including the Gansett Island Series and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books. In addition, she is the author of the Butler,Vermont Series, the Green Mountain Series and the erotic romance Quantum Series, written as M.S. Force. All together, her books have sold 6 million copies worldwide. Her goals in life are simple-to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can, and to never be on a flight that makes the news. Please visit her online at marieforce.com.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Force's sobering standalone is a tribute to those who must wait behind as loved ones deploy in the military. Twenty-one-year-old college graduate Ava Lucas meets and falls in dizzying love with serviceman John West. They spend two blissful years together, cocooned in a world all their own. Remarkably-and implausibly-Ava has no idea John is vulnerable to deployment until the day he packs his "go bag," kisses Ava goodbye, and heads overseas, cutting off all contact. She searches for him to no avail. Again, remarkably, Ava stays put for five years awaiting John's return. Then she moves back to her family home in New York, begins a new life and new job, and finds new love. She's happily engaged to marry a wonderful man, but the specter of what might have become of John still haunts her-and then he returns. Force's treatment of grief in a state of limbo, not knowing closure, is what makes this otherwise unremarkable book worth reading. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
What's a good romance novel without a love triangle? Veteran romancer Force wastes no time introducing Ava, the heroine, and John, hunk No. 1, a military man of mystery with intense electric-blue eyes and a hint of late-day scruff on his jaw. Within the first three pages, they crash into each other at a bar, fall madly in love, and spend two years together. Just a few paragraphs later, suicide bombers blow up a U.S.-based cruise ship and kill 4,000 people, and John packs his duffel and leaves San Diego. Ava fruitlessly waits five years for him and finally moves back to New York, where she meets Eric, hunk No. 2, the brother of her sister's new husband. Two positive signs of the times: a main character gets help from a therapist, and another one actually puts on a condom. The stars take turns telling the fast-paced story from their points of view in Force's hard-to-put-down tale.--Karen Springen Copyright 2018 Booklist