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Love and Glory #4
Dawn Of Valor
To pilot Chase Trayhern, war was men's business: Korea in 1950 was no place for a woman! But when angelic nurse Rachel McKenzie saved his chauvinistic hide,
Captain Trayhern was forced to change his tune.... Trapped behind enemy lines, Chase and Rachel grappled for survival. Under fire, impulsive passions ignited, blasting customary courtship. Yet, if they escaped, could a forbidden love forged in the fury of war find an honorable future in the pure light of peace?
Thrill to LOVE AND GLORY, Lindsay McKenna's star-spangled sagas as stirring as the American dream. Meet the proud, patriotic Trayherns, and step into the past to discover where their tradition of honor, their valor under fire, their dreams of love and glory, all began....
Captain Trayhern was forced to change his tune.... Trapped behind enemy lines, Chase and Rachel grappled for survival. Under fire, impulsive passions ignited, blasting customary courtship. Yet, if they escaped, could a forbidden love forged in the fury of war find an honorable future in the pure light of peace?
Thrill to LOVE AND GLORY, Lindsay McKenna's star-spangled sagas as stirring as the American dream. Meet the proud, patriotic Trayherns, and step into the past to discover where their tradition of honor, their valor under fire, their dreams of love and glory, all began....
250 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1991
About the author
Lindsay McKenna
361 books2,503 followersI've lived six lives in one and it all shows up in the books I write, one way or another.
I was always a risk taker and broke mustangs at thirteen years old in Oregon. I learn to break them with love, not threat or pain.
At 17 years old, I picked night-crawlers (worms) out in our Oregon orchards from 9pm to midnight, every night. I earned enough money to buy my school clothes and book. I also plunked down $600 to a flight company at the Medford, Oregon airport and asked them to teach me...a girl...to fly. I soloed in 12 hours, which is average. From that time until I left for the US Navy at 18, I had accrued 39 hours of flight time in my Cessna 150 single engine airplane.
I was in the US military and was an AG3 (weather forecaster). There was no airplane club, so I couldn't fly when I was in the Navy. But I could look at the clouds in the sky ;-).
Later, I flew in a B-52 bomber for a day and night mission (18 hours total), a T-38 Talon jet, USAF, where I was riding in a "chase plane" on a test flight in a Dragonfly jet.
I was one of the first AFLA (American Fencing League of America) women fencers to fence with epee and sabre. These weapons were closed to women because they were too 'heavy' for a female to handle. I said baloney and fought the males and won half my bouts. I was part of a surge of women fencers on the East Coast in the 1970's to push for equality in the sport. Together, we changed the sport and changed the mind of the men. Today? In the Olympics? Women now fence in foil, epee and sabre, thanks to what we did as a vanguard showing the world it could be done.
I then became a volunteer firefighter when I was a civilian once more, the first woman in an all - male fire department in West Point, Ohio for three years. I became a local expert not only in firefighting, driving the engine and tanker trunks, but also had training in hazardous material (Reynoldsburg Fire Academy, Columbus, OH).
My books always reflect what I experienced. If you like edgy, gritty, deeply and emotionally intense love stories with sympathetic heroes and heroines, check out my newest series that will be available mid-Oct. 2015, and it incorporates much of what I have lived.
I was always a risk taker and broke mustangs at thirteen years old in Oregon. I learn to break them with love, not threat or pain.
At 17 years old, I picked night-crawlers (worms) out in our Oregon orchards from 9pm to midnight, every night. I earned enough money to buy my school clothes and book. I also plunked down $600 to a flight company at the Medford, Oregon airport and asked them to teach me...a girl...to fly. I soloed in 12 hours, which is average. From that time until I left for the US Navy at 18, I had accrued 39 hours of flight time in my Cessna 150 single engine airplane.
I was in the US military and was an AG3 (weather forecaster). There was no airplane club, so I couldn't fly when I was in the Navy. But I could look at the clouds in the sky ;-).
Later, I flew in a B-52 bomber for a day and night mission (18 hours total), a T-38 Talon jet, USAF, where I was riding in a "chase plane" on a test flight in a Dragonfly jet.
I was one of the first AFLA (American Fencing League of America) women fencers to fence with epee and sabre. These weapons were closed to women because they were too 'heavy' for a female to handle. I said baloney and fought the males and won half my bouts. I was part of a surge of women fencers on the East Coast in the 1970's to push for equality in the sport. Together, we changed the sport and changed the mind of the men. Today? In the Olympics? Women now fence in foil, epee and sabre, thanks to what we did as a vanguard showing the world it could be done.
I then became a volunteer firefighter when I was a civilian once more, the first woman in an all - male fire department in West Point, Ohio for three years. I became a local expert not only in firefighting, driving the engine and tanker trunks, but also had training in hazardous material (Reynoldsburg Fire Academy, Columbus, OH).
My books always reflect what I experienced. If you like edgy, gritty, deeply and emotionally intense love stories with sympathetic heroes and heroines, check out my newest series that will be available mid-Oct. 2015, and it incorporates much of what I have lived.
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July 13, 2014
This is the story of Morgan's parents... It makes you understand Morgan and his siblings a bit better.
January 25, 2021
The setting of this book is the 50s so I expected some of the virginal hot and cold BS and I thought I could handle it. I was wrong. When he kissed her and she responded by saying that she would be better off with the enemy, I wished I had a physical book so I could throw it away. This was exactly the stereotype for every argument that was made for not having women in a war zone at that time; he can't control himself with a woman and she is completely and ridiculously naïve. If she thought the enemy would chastely kiss her and then stop when she says "no" then she is even stupider than I thought. She never recognizes this error and apologizes but he apologizes over and over. So I guess it's on men to be wrong all the time and women never have to apologize. This sounds about right.
Oh and then one chapter later she's letting him take off her clothes. She could have said "no" at any time and he would have stopped but she does exactly the opposite of that. Then afterwards she is pissed off. So absolutely ridiculous. I'm sure that in a life or death situation where you are completely exhausted and hungry, sex is a priority. That is sarcasm in case you were wondering. Of course her child like reaction completely ruined any pleasure you might get out of the sex scene.
I knew he would spend the rest of the book apologizing so I skipped through each of the next chapters and verified this was true every time I read about him kicking himself for being stupid, which of course he was but so was she.
I cannot recommend this book. If you liked the first books in the series (which I did) this one is likely to ruin the entire series for you.
Oh and then one chapter later she's letting him take off her clothes. She could have said "no" at any time and he would have stopped but she does exactly the opposite of that. Then afterwards she is pissed off. So absolutely ridiculous. I'm sure that in a life or death situation where you are completely exhausted and hungry, sex is a priority. That is sarcasm in case you were wondering. Of course her child like reaction completely ruined any pleasure you might get out of the sex scene.
I knew he would spend the rest of the book apologizing so I skipped through each of the next chapters and verified this was true every time I read about him kicking himself for being stupid, which of course he was but so was she.
I cannot recommend this book. If you liked the first books in the series (which I did) this one is likely to ruin the entire series for you.
July 30, 2020
This was a wonderful love story.
November 16, 2023
Loved the book. Love the author. I'll keep reading more.
November 1, 2015
How It All Began
Using a flashback, McKenna ties the three books in her series,Love and Glory, together. We learn the story of Chase and Rachel Treyhern. If you watched MASH on TV, you will like this book.
Using a flashback, McKenna ties the three books in her series,Love and Glory, together. We learn the story of Chase and Rachel Treyhern. If you watched MASH on TV, you will like this book.
March 2, 2011
I remember reading this book back in 1998, I think. I fell in love with it.
August 27, 2012
military romance.
May 24, 2015
Lovely read
This is again another great read by Lindsay McKenna. I highly recommend all her books. She has such great depth and loving stories.
This is again another great read by Lindsay McKenna. I highly recommend all her books. She has such great depth and loving stories.
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