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Book Signing: Austin Gisriel - The Secret of Their Midnight Tears

Three boys, two women, one world war.
Elizabeth Bittner is in love with Bill Hall whose smooth singing voice enthralls her. She can’t imagine a more exciting place than her home town of Marsh Point, but Pearl Harbor will bring a very adult world to her doorstep. Despite his best efforts, Bill cannot find his place in this adult world and Elizabeth leaves him behind. She also leaves behind her concern over which big band is most popular and becomes increasingly concerned for how the war is affecting her community.
For Veronica Marsh, Pearl Harbor is just the national catastrophe that follows her personal catastrophe. A visiting executive from LeBeau Brothers whisked her away in his expensive car. She hitchhiked home. Veronica goes to work in a local road house and is eventually befriended by her high school rival Elizabeth.
For Veronica’s brother Buck, and the Hall boys, Johnny and Bill, the war will mean the end of their care-free days of baseball and summer evenings in the town’s amusement park. First Johnny, and then Buck join the Marine Corps, but Bill is unable to serve. This rejection will haunt him until he takes his own life. He is a casualty of the war in his own right.
Johnny and Buck know their enemy on Guadalcanal and can seek him out in the shadows of the jungle. Back home in Marsh Point, however, the enemy of uncertainty is also in the shadows, but it cannot be subdued as easily. It will be difficult to give thanks on Thanksgiving Day, 1942. FICTION

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Date: 09/16/2017
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Place:

185 North Loudoun Street
Winchester, VA 22601
United States