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Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue
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Out of the Blue

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Betsy Brown is not the kind of woman who has one-night stands. Then she loses her job. After one too many margaritas, she goes home with a handsome stranger after a farewell party at a local restaurant. Embarrassed and ashamed, she leaves as soon as she comes to her senses and hopes to never see him again. Then she learns that he is the new owner of the company she had worked for. Can she separate herself from that night and her shame when he seems to want to pursue a relationship?
Greg Gunderson is genuinely attracted to Betsy, but when he learns that she is angry at the man who gave her the ax, he doesn't know how to continue. She wants nothing to do with him and he has to make her come around. Then he finds another way to get to know Betsy better. Will it work?
In the meantime, Betsy receives a card from the alumni committee of the American High School for military dependents that she'd attended some twenty years before. She begins an online conversation with her first boyfriend. Now she must decide which one to choose: the man from her past or the one from the present. Which one is right for her future?

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Release dateFeb 26, 2015
ISBN9781311979827
Out of the Blue
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Bonnie Gardner

After spending most of her life as either an army brat or a military wife, the last people that Bonnie Gardner expected to find herself writing about were military men. After all, she'd looked forward to the day she could put that spit and polish and moving around behind her. Then she sold her first book. Her hero was ex-military. Then she sold her second book. Her hero was retired military. You get the picture. When her editor suggested that she use her military knowledge and background, she resisted. She really did. But common sense won out. After all, they say to write about what you know, and that's what she knew. Bonnie grew up on army bases around the world. According to her parents, one of the first homes she lived in was a converted World War II army barracks. She lived in Hawaii before it was a state, and has either visited or lived in almost every state of the Union. During six years in Germany in her formative years, Bonnie developed her love for reading and movies. (In those days, there was no American television to watch overseas, so books and movies were her entertainment.) Even at the tender age of 12, she was a critic. If she didn't like the ending of a book or a movie, she'd spend half the night rewriting it in her mind. Though she didn't actually write any of these ideas down, she honed her skills by writing long letters to friends she'd left behind. Finally, when she was almost 16, her father retired to his home state of Alabama, and there, Bonnie met her husband. Wayne was the cutup sitting next to her in geometry class at Marbury High School, the last of 11 schools she'd attended while growing up. She tried to ignore him, but his clowning won out. They married at 19 and have been together for over 30 years. They have two grown sons, one of whom is now serving in the air force - the third generation in their family. Though Bonnie swore she would never marry a military man, Vietnam intruded and Wayne was drafted. He joined the air force because his father had retired from the air force. It was only supposed to be one enlistment, but...he stayed for 25 years, and Bonnie followed him whenever she could. And Bonnie wouldn't have missed a moment of it. She learned how to do things she never thought she could do - like repair a toilet - when her husband was away for weeks or months at a time. She learned how to be alone. And she learned she could handle anything if she set her mind to it, even Casualty Duty when she and her husband had the unpleasant task of notifying a friend that her husband had died in the line of duty. All those things made Bonnie what she is today, and all of that experience shows in her books. When she writes about her men in uniform, she knows them. She knows the joy and the pain of loving a man in uniform. She knows their wives, their girlfriends, and their mothers. She's been all of them.

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