With Love, Wherever You Are

Everyone knows that war romances never last . . .After a whirlwind romance and wedding, Helen Eberhart Daley, an army nurse, and Lieutenant Frank Daley, M.D. are sent to the front lines of Europe with only letters to connect them for months at a time.Surrounded by danger and desperately wounded patients, they soon find that only the war seems real?and their marriage more and more like a distant dream. If they make it through the war, will their marriage survive?Based on the incredible true love story,With Love, Wherever You Are is an adult novel from beloved children?s author Dandi Daley Mackall. Review The ?story behind the story? of this historical romance separates it from the pack of World War II-era fiction. Taking letters as well as mementos and personal narratives from her own parents, the author shapes their history into a novel with depth and heart.Readers will laugh and cry and frantically turn pages with lumps of dread or joy in their throats, all the while wanting to learn how it ends while simultaneously wishing to remain with these characters forever.Newly graduated nurse Helen Eberhart enlists in the Army, but before she can go overseas, she finds herself tending wounded soldiers a little closer to home. Frank Daley?s graduation from medical school sees him headed straight to boot camp by way of Helen?s hospital. A chance encounter leads to a whirlwind romance and eventually a wedding, even as Helen and Frank prepare for separate deployments. Amid the dangers of the front lines, they fight another battle?keeping a new marriage alive with only letters to stay connected. -- Romantic TimesIn 1941, Helen Eberhart, RN, and Frank Daley, MD, meet in Battle Creek, Michigan, while preparing to be shipped overseas for wartime duty. Frank admires Helen?s determination and work ethic. Helen loves Frank?s compassion for others. After a brief courtship, they marry?and are promptly sent in separate directions for assignments in European hospitals and mobile medical units. Throughout the war, they rely on letters, heavily censored and often delayed, to nurture their fledgling relationship. Key friendships lead to each developing a stronger faith in God.Award-winning Mackall mined her parents? voluminous wartime correspondence to give a fictionalized, detailed, and fascinating look not only at the struggles to maintain a wartime romance, but at the daily rigors, heartbreak, and hazards involved in wartime service. Captivating and realistic,With Love, Wherever You Are will appeal to readers who enjoy 1940s-era romance, adventure, and women?s fiction. Photos of Mackall?s parents add to the novel?s charm. -- Christian Market MagazineStarred review. Mackall?s tale of love in the European theater during WWII makes readers feel as though they?re there with Helen and Frank. . . No detail is too small, and no emotion is untapped. . . The no-holds-barred depictions of war, in-depth characterizations, and suspense make Mackall?s historical novel an excellent choice. -- BooklistStarred review. Mackall has crafted memorable, complex characters who courageously face the tragedy of war . . . the heartbreaking narrative and precise prose will stay with readers long after the final page. -- Publishers WeeklyFact meets fiction in Dandi Daley Mackall's incredible love story, "With Love Wherever You Are," a fictionalized true story of a WWII whirlwind romance and wedding based on over "600 letters tied together with boot laces since 1945." Letters Dandi's father gave to her when he was dying and asked her "not to read" until he and Dandi's mother had passed on.While her father believed her mother wouldn't want anyone reading about their "mushy melodramas," Dandi believed he was wrong. However, she honored her father's request and waited until her parent's death to write this captivating love story from the perspective of a "real-life couple" from "the greatest generation."The story be