6/28/2012 Just a quick note, I called the real "Michael" and he is currently flying his helicopter, fighting the Colorado fires.
Katlin is living her dream as a Helitak Foreman, in Yellowstone National Park, but for one thing. For two decades, she's searched for the one that got a away. A young pilot she was desparately in love with when she was 19. She knows that someday she will find him, but is giving up hope, when he walks back into her world, as a volunteer Army Blackhawk pilot, during the worst fires Yellowstone has ever seen. Can they clear up the past and start new? Is the spark still there or is he happily married by now?
This is my first shot at a full-sized novel. This is an adult read and is semi-autobiographical. Kat and Michael are real (names changed) and so are the stories about their life in Ft Rucker, AL (to the best of my memory, anyway). Tony Becker, from Tour of Duty, is pretty much a ringer for a younger Michael. Tony has the same piercing blue eyes as "Michael". The background story, of the Yellowstone fire is also true, although it happened in 1988. Whenever you see a date, this is fact pulled from various sources, news, briefings, and personal accounts. I tried to give you some history on the fire and tried to portray Helitak for what they truly are. There are firefighters, hot shots, smoke jumpers and Helitak. Little is written about them, so I did my best. Hope you make it through the history lesson some of you may find it boring, but I think it will be a pretty good romance. - Kadee
Please comment, edit, vote. I have the first few chapters finished. I'll post as I get votes and comments. Thanks All.
Aspen Carlee Ellington.
"Beau's Girl" That's how I've been known since the 10th grade.
Every time I looked into the future...whether it was an hour, a day or years ahead of me...that's all I saw. Me and him. Just like I'd always seen. I had no doubt it would be us.
The one day I turned into a real fucking girl and voiced some feelings and watched him walk out of my life to go on some deployment I couldn't know the details of. My heart had a sinking feeling that I would never see him again.
Now I'm 22 and it's two years later he's standing in my backyard with my brothers back from some godforsaken place...and yes. I'm still 100% his. Will this Christmas bring me a happily ever after?
Beau Remington Brighton
Every day I wake up and remember the most beautiful sexy girl I'd ever have the pleasure of knowing. Every day I find a way to torture myself to the brink of mental or physical death for shattering her.
Fast forward two years, I'm standing in her backyard with her older brothers not knowing if she'll even acknowledge my existence. But fuck me...she's even more gorgeous than I remembered and I swear before Christmas is over, I'll have made her broken heart whole and she'll be mine.
Aspen is a 21 year old dessert maker. Beau is a 28 year old Navy SEAL. Between ghosts from their pasts and dangers of their future...broken promises, broken dreams and broken hearts...can these two fix a love that was broken?