Midway Between You and Me

She doesn't love a man in uniform.

Professor Tam Nguyen knows that most women dream of a handsome, broad-shouldered military man. But she can never forget that the man who abandoned her pregnant mother in the middle of a war zone wore a uniform.

Harlequin - July 2002 
ISBN 0-373-71070-4

"Author Rogenna Brewer seamlessly blends fact and fiction in this marvelous compilation of cultures, history, the past and present in MIDWAY BETWEEN YOU AND ME. As a student of Vietnam War literature in college, I've read a wide variety of literature dealing with the after effects of the War, and was both surprised and pleased to encounter these powerful themes in series romance. Brewer's first hand knowledge of the Midway Islands brings the beauty and potential for danger vividly alive in this exotic backdrop. Likewise, Brewer's knowledge of culture and the struggles of a woman torn between those cultures lend her heroine both vulnerability and strength in equal measures. Further, Bowie's internal conflict as he struggles between loyalties to a man his father served with and the needs of a woman he is growing to love prove to be a powerfully effective motivation. As Brewer recognizes, the answers to the heart lie somewhere "MIDWAY BETWEEN YOU AND ME."  -- C. Penn, WordWeaving

"Tam's parents' relationship, seen in flashbacks, creates an unusual framework for romance. However, Rogenna Brewer's MIDWAY BETWEEN YOU AND ME...[is] ambitious, tackling drug smuggling, kidnapping and the Vietnam War." --Romantic Times BOOKclub

And what if her mother did manage to find him after all these years? In all likelihood he'd made a new life for himself that included a wife, kids...a family.

What if he'd always had one?

Only a double life made a man that hard to find.

So what was Tam really afraid of, that her mother would never find her father, or that she would?

With the slightest tremble she forgot all about poachers and drug runners and soldiers underfoot. She ripped open the envelop on what she knew would be the latest progress report.

Unfolding the single page, she began to read...

"Trouble in paradise?"

Tam spun around.

Trouble? Oh, yeah. And she was looking right at him.

He stood just inside the open hangar bay, at the Coke machine. Like the rest he wore a combat helmet and the uniform of a seasoned soldier.

The jungle print was caked in mud.

He was caked in mud.

And judging from the stubble along his jaw, not only had the ma not used a bar of soap in weeks, he didn't even own a razor. She'd heard it sad the uniform made the man. In this case, however, the man made the uniform.

He made it look good. Damn good.

Personally, she'd never been attracted to the type.

Excerpt from MIDWAY BETWEEN YOU AND ME, copyright 2002 by Rogenna Brewer, Harlequin Superromance® #1070, July 2002.

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