Bøker av C L Howland

Cerulean skies. White sand. Festive luaus.Hawaii is heaven on earth.Until a sleepy Sunday morning in December…Elizabeth Wellman, a reserved academic, survives the attack on Pearl Harbor only to flee her Vermont home under a barrage of sensational press. She soon learns long sleeves can't hide all her scars. She takes refuge as a teacher in a New Jersey suburb. Invited to a student's picnic, Elizabeth is shocked to learn Port Johnson isn't a park, but a prisoner of war camp where local families gather each week. It's with this unconventional group that she finds security, a sense of belonging-and love. Dante Montenari, a wounded veteran, is drawn to Elizabeth despite his best efforts to keep her away from the back-alley violence of his world. He has lost women to bloodshed and may again as the couple become pawns in a territorial dispute between the Italian and Irish mobs. War has already exacted a heavy price from these injured souls. Will they at last find peace, or perish?

First love versus family obligations amid the Green Mountains of VermontThere isn't a heck of a lot that doesn't scream target about Mina Mason: her weight, her homemade dresses, even the hoarder's paradise loosely disguised as the Masons' home. Samuel Two Bears Miller reshapes Mina's understated existence with his arrival, his dark skin and long braid exotic next to the Puritan pallor of the local boys. All through high school, Mina conceals her odd home life behind the doors of her dilapidated house, even after discovering love with the outspoken boy. Mina must choose between the person who makes her feel alive and the family who relies on her.My Mother Grows Wallflowers reveals the unwitting legacy parents pass onto their children…as precious as any heirloom and twice as fragile-self-esteem or lack of it.