{"product_id":"deployments-and-desires-katelyn-smyth-9798273013667","title":"Deployments and Desires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMILLIE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe said it was just for fun.\u003cbr\u003eA one-night kind of forever.\u003cbr\u003eConnor was charming, damaged, and impossible to forget-the kind of man who didn't believe in happy endings but still gave me one of the best nights of my life.\u003cbr\u003eWe got married in a blink, for a bucket list he never explained, and then he was gone. Deployed. Out of reach. Out of sight.\u003cbr\u003eUntil he walks into the Silver Horseshoe, and everything inside me stops.\u003cbr\u003eBecause my husband-the one I never expected to see again-is standing in my small town, haunted and hurting. And all the feelings I buried? They're still there. Just waiting to break me open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONNOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't expect to see her again-especially not in the town my sister calls home.\u003cbr\u003eMillie. My wife. The woman I married before deployment on a whim. I didn't expect to survive.\u003cbr\u003eBut now I'm back, medically discharged, broken in ways I can't begin to explain, and she's here-bright, beautiful, and so damn good it hurts.\u003cbr\u003eShe fell for the version of me I don't recognize anymore.\u003cbr\u003eI didn't expect to remember her laugh. Her kindness. Her hands in mine when I swore to love her after just one night.\u003cbr\u003eI didn't expect to want to come back.\u003cbr\u003eBut war leaves its mark. I didn't come home whole. But fate brought me back to the one woman I never should've left behind.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I don't know if I'm ready to love her again...\u003cbr\u003eBut I've never stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katelyn Smyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798273013667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d","brand":"Katelyn Smyth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172218183935,"sku":"9798273013667","price":16.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deployments-and-desires-katelyn-smyth-9798273013667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}