Love, War, Secrets, Memories -- Just Once

If you are a fan of Karen Kingsbury's books, then you are most likely familiar with her Baxter family books. Tucked away inside the first series, Ashley Baxter meets an elderly woman named Irvel, who becomes a special friend for Ashley. Just Once is Irvel's story, and it is a beautiful one. 

Irvel's story includes love, war, secrets, memories . . . all told in the heart-warming style that you can expect from Karen Kingsbury's Life-Changing Fiction. The characters come alive, and you find yourself in the middle of the joys and the challenges in some very complicated situations.

This book is a stand alone. It is not necessary for you to have read the earlier books. The only thing missed would just be the feeling that you are learning the history of a character you already.

I highly recommend Just Once to fans of great inspirational fiction -- both historical and contemporary.

About the Book

In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland is too focused on her secret to take much notice of the war raging overseas. She’s dating Sam but in love with his younger brother, Hank—her longtime best friend—and Irvel has no idea how to break the news. Then the unthinkable happens—Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted and convinces Hank to remain in Indiana, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front.

While Sam fights in Europe, an undeniable chemistry builds between Irvel and Hank but neither would dare cross that line. Then, two military leaders pay Irvel a visit at the classroom where she teaches. The men have plans for her, a proposition to join a new spy network. One catch: She can tell no one.

With Irvel caught between two brothers thousands of miles apart, can love find a way, even from the ashes of the greatest heartbreak?

About the Author

Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development as major motion pictures. Karen recently opened her own film company called Kingsbury Productions. The company’s first theatrical movie, Someone Like You, was considered one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Also, the first three seasons of Karen’s Baxter Family books are now an original series called The Baxters on Prime Video.

Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty-nesters, living in Tennessee near five of their adult children.