......soldier, father and husband Charles E. Sullivan is home on leave. The night heat is almost unbearable. He looks patiently out the window at the trees that are swaying back and forth in the wind. Rain the size of pebbles is pounding on the roof top as if begging to get in. This is not new to him; he has lived on the island that sits off the coast of Georgia most of his life. His two young children jump as the lightning that flashes across the sky is followed by a roaring thunder that shakes the walls of their small home. There is a faint crackling sound and the house is blanketed in darkness. It is within that instance that the life of a loving family would change forever: His children are stolen, he is left a cripple and the wife he had loved since grade school would abandon him. Fourteen years would go by before he would see them again. Set off St. Simons Island Georgia, the main character finds herself taken across state lines. It is the summer of 1979. In a strange city with no one she can trust....the main character will do whatever she must to survive. Making her way back to the town she was taken from as a child, she finds herself in love with, and in the arms of, the man that deceived her years before. The hope that she could have a normal life is torn to shreds by this reunion. Her story will leave you breathless. It is both shocking and empowering. You will fall in love, laugh, and cry as you are swept up into the incredible journey within these pages. You will want everyone you know to read this book......