Sandhill Dreams
Cara PutmanLainie closed her eyes and tipped her head. For a moment thatseemed to last for eternity, she waited. Then she felt Tom's breath get closer and then he kissed her. She eased into the kiss, but he edged back.
A heartwarming WWII love story, Sandhill Dreams was a finalist in the 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers' Carol Awards for short historical fiction.
Lainie Gardner once dreamed of becoming a nurse. Of serving her country. Of doing something important in the war. But rheumatic fever changed all that, and instead of running home to her parents' coddling, Lainie is determined to find a war job at Fort Robinson in Nebraska's sandhills, where she meets a soldier with his own broken dreams.
Tom Hamilton has feared dogs since he was bitten as a child, but his assignment at Fort Robinson is training war dogs and their handlers. Surely the Army has another use for him, but he's trapped in a job he can't stand in an out-of-the-way outpost....