Starting Over

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday Blog Share. Today, we’re talking about starting over for military women who opt out of the service to raise their children.


One of the hardest things I ever did was decide to end my military career after being offered a stupendous assignment. But there was a price attached to this assignment that I wasn’t willing to pay—being gone from my very young children nine months out of the year. Even though I would have achieved the prestige my long years of service had given me, even though I would have been in a job I loved, my children had to come first. Every day, many women service members are faced with this same conundrum. Some have no choice but to take those long separations, others are lucky enough to be at the point in their enlistment where they can say no.




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Blurb

Riona’s life of self-doubt stranded her in an abusive marriage with four small children to raise. Her children and a successful career in the Air Force made her life bearable. She needed out—and Fate handed her a way.
Once, when she was younger, there was a man she thought good until he stood her up. She had no way of knowing that he had endured a bad marriage and a bitter divorce, leaving a teenaged daughter in the middle. He had never forgotten Riona.
Both their hearts were hurting. Fate would help them heal.





Excerpt

Riona hurried to finish dressing. Unable to handle the cold weather since the birth of her son, she wore a pair of cream wool dress slacks with a black sweater. The baby, Ricky, lay on the bed, ready for her to place him in the car seat she would have to carry down the stairs and hook up in the back of their mini-van. If she was very lucky, Hank might carry out the food, but only after she packed it into boxes.
“I wish we were staying home today, instead of going to the church supper.” Riona immediately felt shame for her less than Christian thoughts.
Raised Catholic in a family deeply embedded in their Irish roots, she had loved the holiday celebrations, until she married Hank Sanders and was forced to ignore her upbringing, his continual putdowns of everyone raised Catholic, and endure what she knew was very slanted Biblical teachings.


About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.

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