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This HaBO comes Michelle, who is hoping to find this contemporary romance:
A woman moves back to her small hometown after being away for years and years. She’s a journalist/reporter who spent some time in war-torn Iraq or Iran. She had been in a relationship with her cameraman/photographer, who ended up being killed in a car bombing or something. She was also injured and has PTSD because of what happened.
She comes back and gets reacquainted with an old boyfriend of hers from high school or whatever and they realize they still have feelings for each other.
I can’t remember if there were any sex scenes, but if there were, they weren’t explicit I don’t think. They were more Debbie Macomber than Linda Lael Miller, you know what I mean?
I read it around 2006-07, and it had been published recently.
Know this one?
The Backup Plan
by
Sheryl Woods
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Not a book, but an amazing Pride and Prejudice fanfic with Lizzy as the reporter….
I’m pretty sure I’ve read this one, but I can’t remember the name. I want to say it was a category romance by someone like Ruth Wind or Lindsay McKenna, but none of their titles strike a cord.
FWIW Another novel with a heroine’s war-related PTSD is Soldier’s Heart by Kathleen Korbel with a Vietnam Nurse heroine.
Sounds like one I read by Susan Wiggs, unfortunately I can’t remember the title. 🙁
I know this one!!!
The Backup Plan by Sherryl Woods HQN
“War correspondent Dinah Davis has covered many of the recent hot spots. Currently she is reporting on Afghanistan, but has lost her edge since she witnessed the death of a friend and was nearly killed too. Physically Dinah has healed, but her boss tells her she is not the same and should return to the States to marry and have babies. Initially refusing to listen, Dinah realizes that her career is over and wonders if her boyfriend Bobby Beaufort still waits for as he promised a decade ago when she chose journalism over marriage.
Back home in South Carolina, Dinah’s mom worries that her daughter has not recovered from her last overseas assignment. Meanwhile Bobby’s older brother Cord, who thought his sibling was a fool to agree to Dinah’s backup plan, quickly wants to revise the arrangement by inserting himself as the groom. As Dinah suffers the malaise of post traumatic syndrome, she turns to Cord not her family or Bobby for comfort while he worries whether he will prove enough in the long run.”
This was the first time I knew even part of the answer – I knew it was Sheryl Woods. Nice job, @Stacie!
@Bea – Ooh! Do share!