Worry Stone

by Skye Taylor

“A deeply emotional tale set during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War. Authentic and evocative, this love story between a veteran and a one-time war protester makes us appreciate the healing power of love.” Eve Gaddy, National Best Selling Author

Love sometimes finds you when you least expect it – when you aren’t even looking for it. Which is how it happened for Sandy Marshall and Nathan Cameron. Sandy is in her senior year of college, and looking forward to her semester of student teaching when she meets Nathan “Cam” Cameron and steps in to thwart fellow student who is heckling him. Something about Cam reminds her of her brother who has been MIA for almost a year, and she can’t help the urge to intervene. She’s been rescuing and healing injured creatures all her life, and the pain in Cam’s eyes at the undeserved taunts prompts her to come to his defense. She never believed in love-at-first-sight before, but deep down, she’s convinced this troubled soldier is the man she is meant to love and be with forever.

Cam has recently returned home from an unpopular war to an unwelcoming populace. His time in Vietnam has changed him in ways he doesn’t understand. He felt he was doing his patriotic duty when he joined the Marine Corps, but he came home a changed man with a lot of guilt and anger. He’s not sure how to take the pretty young woman who leaps to his defense at registration for fall

283 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2019

About the author

Skye Taylor oldest city in the US where she divides her time between writing novels, walking the beach, volunteering at the JAX USO, keeping up with dozens of friends via the internet and trying to keep her to-be-read pile from taking over the house. She considers life an adventure and in a world of people who ask why, she has decided to ask "why not?" She spent two years in the South Pacific with the Peace Corps (2002-2004). She's jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and earned a basic sky diving license. She loves to travel and has visited twenty-six states and fifteen countries on four continents and in the South Pacific. Her bucket list includes at least that many more places to see. She's a member of RWA, Women's Fition Writers, Sisters In Crime, and Florida Writers Association. Check out her website at: www.skye-writer.com.

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

New adult book. Flashback to the VietNam era and the love story of the main characters, Sandy and Cam. Enjoyed the book but felt it was very slow around 2/3 through the book when the angst of his flashbacks were continual. Also, even though she acknowledges a copy editor, I found a number of distracting errors such as missed quotation marks, marks going the wrong way, missing words, messed up formatting. Perhaps the final corrections were not made.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the story especially since I grew up during that era.

[Eve Gaddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skye Taylor’s Worry Stone is a deeply emotional tale set during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War. Authentic and evocative, this love story between a veteran and a one-time war protester makes us appreciate the healing power of love. I loved it!

[Della Nasuti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Book!! A love story between a veteran and a war protestor shows us the healing power of love!

[Heidi Sprouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worry Stone carries you into the wounded heart of a Viet Nam warrior trying to put himself back together again. The unfaltering love of a woman may be his Superglue. The raw emotion will leave you aching, wishing you could fix him. It is a story that holds up as well now for our soldiers as it did in the '60s and '70s. As a woman who lost her 19-year-old cousin to this war, I relate. I encourage you to fall in love with the Camerons of Tide's Way.