A very odd book. It's marketed as a romance - and it does end up with the two main characters going for Happy Ever After together...but it's much more a study of PTSD and how (and how not) to handle it. Navy flier shot down over Iraq, presumed dead and held for eight years until he's accidentally (as a side effect of another mission) rescued. His wife and daughter have both grown up considerably since he was 'lost'; they all three have a lot of problems dealing with that simple fact. A lot about how he feels unclean because of the way he was treated; how his physical weakness translates into emotional weakness and he's fighting it; how he's looking for his old place in their lives and it's not there any more. The romance is kind of an afterthought - all the proper elements are there, they're just not front-and-center. Interesting book but I don't think I'll want to re-read it. ( )