Blue Skies Tomorrow
August 28th, 2011. Filed under: This & That.War Widow Fights The Past, American Pilot Fights For The Future
Award-Winning Author Delivers an Emotion-Packed,
Gripping Tale of War, Intrigue and Love
The country is still at war in Blue Skies Tomorrow (ISBN: 978-0-8007-3423-7, $14.99, 448 pages, August 2011) by award-winning author Sarah Sundin. It is 1944 and America longs for the war to be over so their boys can come home. This war has taken too many lives and made too many widows, orphans, and broken hearts. However, the homeland continues to pull together and buy bonds to support the troops, and Helen Carlisle has become the town’s war widow heroine. Doing her part with her son, she faithfully appears at community events asking people to support the troops. But deep down she is troubled. How much longer can she do this? Is she living a lie? Was her dead husband a hero? How can she live with the past?
Lt. Ray Novak prefers to follow his calling into ministry rather than the cockpit. But his current position offers him the luxury of a personal life since he is stateside training B-17 pilots. His interest in Helen, the young war widow, grows, but he knows she is hiding a painful past under a frenzy of volunteer work. Ray is called to fly a European combat mission at the peak of the air war. Their romance is tense because Helen is afraid, but Ray cannot help because he is in Europe. As Helen tries to make ends meet and confronts the past, Ray encounters a deadly enemy of his own. Will they find the courage to face their challenges? Will the truth come out? Will hope and redemption ring true for Helen?
The great era of World War II in Blue Skies Tomorrow is brought to life by Sundin in this emotion-packed novel.
ISLAND BREEZES
I enjoyed coming back to the Novak family, and getting to know Ray better. His life is full of ups and downs. I didn’t intend that as a pun, but it’s filling since he’s a pilot.
A blossoming relationship with childhood friend, Helen, is part of those ups and downs.
And speaking of Helen. That lady has a depressing and challenging life.
It wasn’t easy for either of them as they faced their deepest fears after Helen broke off their relationship. Can they come out on top with an only friends” relationship? It won’t be easy.
Remember this phrase. “In order to live, one must first die.”
You are so going to need that box of tissues – maybe even the entire box!
***Thank you to Donna Hausler for providing a review copy***
Sarah Sundin received the 2011 Writer of the Year Award from the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, and her second novel, A Memory Between Us, is a finalist for an Inspirational Readers’ Choice Award. She is the author of A Distant Melody and A Memory Between Us. Her great-uncle flew with the US Eighth Air Force in England during WWII. Sarah lives in California with her husband and three children. For more interesting information about Sarah visit: sarahsundin.com
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September 14th, 2011 at 19:39
Thank you so much for the lovely review! I’m so glad you enjoyed Ray and Helen’s story!
September 18th, 2011 at 10:33
Thank you. There’s not been any of your books that I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed.