Your Gift to Me Author:Bonnie Bartel Latino, Robert E. Vale TOP GUN meets STEEL MAGNOLIAS in an award-winning military love story that touches hearts and is filled with unexpected twists . . . — Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Air Force widow Emily Ann Meade clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous... more » profession ... until she meets F-16 pilot, Colonel 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 sublime. 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!
This story has achieved Amazon's ranking as the #1 Top Rated War Fiction, #1 Top Rated Contemporary Romance, and #1 Top Rated Romance.« less