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Your Gift to Me is like Steel Magnolias meets Top Gun -- if "Maverick" were ten years older. This inspirational love story and military mystery celebrates the human spirit's capacity to triumph over tragedy.Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Gulf War widow, Emily Meade, is having a near-life-experience. She clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession ... until she meets F-16 pilot, Ted Foley, in Hawaii. Although they are mutually attracted, the charismatic widower's fighter wing in Japan recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes. Allowing her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can't afford the emotional mortgage, Emily lowers her barriers. She discovers Ted's greatest virtue: he makes the ordinary feel sacred. Healing in shared confidences solidifies their bond. When another crash reignites her fears, the relationship shatters. Unless Emily finds a path through her emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by example and from the front. And that man's life could be in danger! >>> "What would you get if Stephen Ambrose, Patricia Cornwell, and Max Lucado teamed up to create a story? The result, I suspect, would turn out to be something very close to the compelling narrative found in YOUR GIFT TO ME." -- New York Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews >>> Winner of a 2012 Gold Medal, Military Writers Society of America.>>> >>> "Your Gift to Me is an accurate, smart and sensitive look at military lives and military wives." -- The Tampa Tribune >>> Winner of a 2012 Silver Medal for Inspiration/Healing Fiction, Stars and Flags Book Awards, Branson, MO. >>>> "This is one you don't want to miss!" ~Katherine Boyer, "The Midwest Book Review" >>> "Your Gift to Me" has a 4.9-star average on 190 Amazon reviews.… (meer)
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Bonnie Bartel Latino and Bob Vale have teamed up to write a first-rate novel of romance and the military entitled Your Gift to Me. It will take you away to Emily and Ted’s imaginary pagoda to revel in their budding love story.
““…we have to be careful. Once we create this house with identical images in our minds,” he stroked the center of her forehead, “our home will forever be a part of both of us. You understand?””
Both Emily and Ted have lost their respective spouses and are grieving in their own individual ways. They meet on a blind date and soon become entwined in each other’s lives, especially their pain. Ted decides to help Emily alleviate her heartache and in doing so, works a miracle on himself with her help. The approach to this dual change in their lives is something that the reader will share as they pour through the pages of this unusual romance. This is a book you do not want to miss. It is an entrancing story, written to interest everyone. Bonnie Bartel Latino and Bob Vale met online in a military forum. Although they have never met in person, their correspondence evolved into a professional writing team that has lasted for over a decade. Your Gift to Me is the culmination of that collaboration. Bonnie is a former freelance columnist for Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe and was a military wife for three decades. She has won two national writing awards from the Military Writers Society of America. A correspondent for the Mobile Press-Register book page, Bonnie lives in Atmore, Alabama, with her husband, retired Air Force Colonel Tom Latino. Bob Vale is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and photographer. He founded and is President of Graphic Word, a full service creative agency on the East Coast. Bob provides creative services to a broad range of clients in addition to his collaborative writing projects with Bonnie. He has designed and produced three published works of non-fiction. Bob is also a member of the Military Writers Society of America. He and his wife Janice live in New Jersey. They have two adult sons, Nicholas and Bryan. Your Gift to Me has been nominated for a 2012 Book Award from the Military Writers Society of America. Based on reader reviews, the novel is Amazon's current #1 Top Rated War Fiction. It previously achieved the rank of #1 Top Rated Contemporary Romance and #1 Top Rated Romance. For several months the book has consistently remained in both genres' top three. ( )
Your Gift to Me is like Steel Magnolias meets Top Gun -- if "Maverick" were ten years older. This inspirational love story and military mystery celebrates the human spirit's capacity to triumph over tragedy.Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Gulf War widow, Emily Meade, is having a near-life-experience. She clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession ... until she meets F-16 pilot, Ted Foley, in Hawaii. Although they are mutually attracted, the charismatic widower's fighter wing in Japan recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes. Allowing her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can't afford the emotional mortgage, Emily lowers her barriers. She discovers Ted's greatest virtue: he makes the ordinary feel sacred. Healing in shared confidences solidifies their bond. When another crash reignites her fears, the relationship shatters. Unless Emily finds a path through her emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by example and from the front. And that man's life could be in danger! >>> "What would you get if Stephen Ambrose, Patricia Cornwell, and Max Lucado teamed up to create a story? The result, I suspect, would turn out to be something very close to the compelling narrative found in YOUR GIFT TO ME." -- New York Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews >>> Winner of a 2012 Gold Medal, Military Writers Society of America.>>> >>> "Your Gift to Me is an accurate, smart and sensitive look at military lives and military wives." -- The Tampa Tribune >>> Winner of a 2012 Silver Medal for Inspiration/Healing Fiction, Stars and Flags Book Awards, Branson, MO. >>>> "This is one you don't want to miss!" ~Katherine Boyer, "The Midwest Book Review" >>> "Your Gift to Me" has a 4.9-star average on 190 Amazon reviews.
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““…we have to be careful. Once we create this house with identical images in our minds,” he stroked the center of her forehead, “our home will forever be a part of both of us. You understand?””
Both Emily and Ted have lost their respective spouses and are grieving in their own individual ways. They meet on a blind date and soon become entwined in each other’s lives, especially their pain. Ted decides to help Emily alleviate her heartache and in doing so, works a miracle on himself with her help. The approach to this dual change in their lives is something that the reader will share as they pour through the pages of this unusual romance.
This is a book you do not want to miss. It is an entrancing story, written to interest everyone.
Bonnie Bartel Latino and Bob Vale met online in a military forum. Although they have never met in person, their correspondence evolved into a professional writing team that has lasted for over a decade. Your Gift to Me is the culmination of that collaboration. Bonnie is a former freelance columnist for Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe and was a military wife for three decades. She has won two national writing awards from the Military Writers Society of America. A correspondent for the Mobile Press-Register book page, Bonnie lives in Atmore, Alabama, with her husband, retired Air Force Colonel Tom Latino. Bob Vale is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and photographer. He founded and is President of Graphic Word, a full service creative agency on the East Coast. Bob provides creative services to a broad range of clients in addition to his collaborative writing projects with Bonnie. He has designed and produced three published works of non-fiction. Bob is also a member of the Military Writers Society of America. He and his wife Janice live in New Jersey. They have two adult sons, Nicholas and Bryan.
Your Gift to Me has been nominated for a 2012 Book Award from the Military Writers Society of America. Based on reader reviews, the novel is Amazon's current #1 Top Rated War Fiction. It previously achieved the rank of #1 Top Rated Contemporary Romance and #1 Top Rated Romance. For several months the book has consistently remained in both genres' top three. (