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No parade, not like the one that saw the warriors off on a plane that would take them into the heart of a war. No banners. No welcome home, soldier, job well done. Just a long, painful journey home to a small, shabby farmhouse out in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma. Not that Cameron Brooks had anyone waiting anxiously at home. Life had always been an easy ride for Cam, at least until his wife divorces him and drops their kids off with his chain-smoking, man-eating mother a month before an IED explodes under his Humvee. The Marines had been his calling, his children were his duty. How is he supposed to care for two kids who look at him as if he’s a stranger, when he can’t take care of himself.
Melanie Parker recognizes her next physical therapist patient before he can struggle his way to the receptionist desk. His group of jock friends had a nickname for her, Pudge Parker. Or Miss Piggy Parker was pretty popular during the prom when she’d dared to show up without a date, wearing a hot pink thrift store gown. Her ethics and hard fought sterling reputation is challenged when she begins to fall for her patient and his kids. But can she trust her heart to someone who had so ruthlessly abused it before? Especially when his ex-wife shows up to take back the family that Melanie never knew she wanted, not until she’s threatened with losing them.
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