A Flute in the Willows

By Carole Brown

Description:

Both rebels in their own way, Josie and Jerry Patterson must figure out how to keep the other's love...and keep the German enemy at bay. She has two loves—her skating and Jerry, her husband. But when he returns home looking like a skeleton trying to return to life, she’s scared. What happened in Germany to change a man so much? Has another woman captured his heart?

Jerry has vowed to let Josie live her own glamorous life...especially after what happened in Germany. But when his wife's life is threatened, Jerry realizes he can’t stand by and do nothing. Jerry has to risk all for the very soul and life of himself—Josie.

These two damaged, rebellious people learn the hard way that leaning on God instead of their own selves and abilities is the only true way to love and happiness.

Book Takeaway:

Josie and Jerry Patterson, who eloped in Book One, are having marital problems mainly because of the PTSD Jerry's suffering from and because he feels his actions in Germany have made him unfit to be her husband. In the meantime, Jerry is ordered to find the spy who followed him back to America. While he fears this spy will threaten his wife, she wants nothing more than to regain her husband and protect him from whoever is pushing him farther toward the brink of insanity. Their fears push them away from each other, but trust and surrender eventually overcome their problems.

Why the author wrote this book:

When I began this series--The Spies of WWII--I knew there would be three red-headed sisters and their love characters who all served as spies during WWII.

My mother's stories of the 1940s and the story from an older gentleman we knew who was suspected of being a civilian spy fueled my interest of that period.