Come Home To Me: A Coming Home Novella

Jessica Scott

Oct 2014 · Coming Home Book 5 · Thirty One Fox Books

About this ebook

Previously published as ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU

From USA Today Bestselling author Jessica Scott comes an all new novella about a woman who came back from war changed and the man who loves her enough not to let her go.  

All Major Patrick MacLean wanted was Christmas with the woman and child who were his family in everything but name. But Captain Samantha Egan has come back from the war a different woman than the one who left - and she doesn't know if she can love him anymore. 

 

But neither of them counted on the determination of a little girl they both call daughter and if Natalie has her wish, her parents may have no idea what's coming for them.  It's going to take Christmas miracle to bring these two wounded warriors back from the edge of a broken heart.  

This story has been featured in Home For Christmas: A Holiday Duet with JoAnn Ross.

Ratings and reviews

This novella is very well written. For those who have never been to war, this gives you insight into what it feels like to be home afterwards. Written by a female career officer, Scott knows what she's writing about. Women in battle suffer from emotional problems like men do. Hope, love, mutual trust and a daughter combine to make sure that their love ignites again. This novella is impossible to put down.

**I received an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion** I love how Jessica Scott accurately portrays the emotions of the military personnel returned from deployment. In this story Patrick and Sam are struggling. Sam has survivor's guilt, some PTSD, and is feeling numb and empty. Unable to feel love, she seeks the solace of home and goes back to Maine. Patrick has had counseling for his PTSD, but he's still harboring a secret from Sam. He won't lose her or their daughter, when Natalie calls daddy and asks him to come, he's on the next plane, ready to do anything and everything to save his family. Patrick helps Sam realize she can't kick her problems alone, and she needs to face them in order to go forward with their lives. He also shows her he'll stay--other men in her life have left her, so she ran before she thought he would. But Patrick is in for the long haul. Proving love can both of them heal and find their way back to each other. He willing to leave the military and start life over in Maine, anything to save his family. Sam sees Patrick's love as true, learns his secret, and begins the long journey back to love and feeling again. Together, they decide to become a family, n

Though fictional, this story shows a glimpse of the grief and confusion for those struggling with PTSD. Family, please keep the lines of communication open. Love doesn't have to have an expiration date.

About the author

USA Today Bestselling author Jessica Scott is a career army officer, mother of two daughters, three cats and three dogs, wife to a career NCO and wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She is a terrible cook and even worse housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot with her assigned weapon and someone liked some of the stuff she wrote. Somehow, her children are pretty well adjusted and her husband still loves her, despite burned water and a messy house.

She's also written for the New York Times At War Blog, PBS Point of View Regarding War, and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of OIF/New Dawn and has had the honor of serving as a company commander at Fort Hood, Texas twice.

Most recently, she's been featured as one of Esquire Magazine's Americans of the Year for 2012. Learn More at http://www.jessicascott.net