I'll Be Home for Christmas: A Coming Home Novella

As soldiers from Fort Hood, TX, gather for an evening out with their wives the night before yet another yearlong deployment to Baghdad, all minds are filled with dread, fear, worry, and, because this is a contemporary romance novella, sex. The story features multiple plotlines involving several couples who will be separated, but the focus is on infantryman Vic Carponti and his wife, Nicole, who works in the army's Criminal Investigation Division. After deployment, the soldiers struggle with battle fatigue and the dynamics of the platoon, while the wives wait for emails and phone calls that will let them know that their husbands are safe. Scott, a former army captain who was in-country in Iraq, is able to provide much detail about the lives of the soldiers and their wives. She has previously written two works of nonfiction (To Iraq and Back and The Long Way Home) and seven novels. She was featured as one of Esquire magazine's Americans of the Year for 2012.