Skipping Stones

This is a stand alone novel. Now available They say there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not everyone will grieve in this order, nor will everyone go through every stage. Its during the stage of denial when Alex Hart meets Andrew Foster. He takes her one-step closer to acceptance: the stage when new, meaningful relationships are formed. The stage when the realization occurs that this is now the new state of normal. Just when Alex thinks she is on her way to healing, she enters the bargaining phase. Thats the phase where you wonder what you could have done differently. You wonder what if? Specifically, what if the ones you loved hadnt left you? Leavingthis is what makes heading off to war so difficult and frightening for Alex. She knows all too well what its like to be the one on the losing end of life, which is why shes made it her personal mission in life to save as many lives as possible. The extreme high she gets from treating trauma victims turns into Alexs own form of therapy, or so she thinks. When faced with her world being turned upside down, Alex may just find that her true therapy is in the one who has always saved her.