Just Once
A Novel
by Karen Kingsbury
Pub DateNov 14 2023
Atria Books
Christian| Romance
I am reviewing a copy of Just Once through Aria Books and Netgalley:
Karen Kingsbury once again creates a powerful story of love:
A love story like Irvel and Hank's could only happen, just once.
In 1941 Irvel Holland is a beautiful you g woman whose to busy harboring a secret to take much notice to the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his younger brother Hank who is her longtime best friend and Irvel has no idea how to break the news. Then the unthinkable happens Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted and convinces Hank to remain in Indiana, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front.
Long before Irvel's memory was ravaged by Alzheimers she held a secret, a secret that would remain hidden until her Granddaughter Audra decided to remodel Irvel and Hank's Old Home.
While Sam is fighting in Europe , an undeniable chemistry builds between Irvel and Hank but neither would dare cross that line. Then, two military leaders pay Irvel a visit at the classroom where she teaches. The men have plans for her, a proposition to join a new spy network. One catch: She can tell no one.
After her diagnosis of Alzheimers Irvel has less than a year to record her stories from the tine she was a spy during World War 2, for her Sn Charlie, his wife, Peggy and her Granddaughter Audra!
I give Just Once five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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I will have to read this one Michelle. Well Done!!