TWO ROMANCE AUTHORS PLEDGE ROYALTIES TO USO PROGRAM
(Irvine, CA, September 29, 2006) Lorna K. Grant of Irvine, CA, and Kally Jo Surbeck of Lusk, WY, wanted to give something back to those in uniform. As a result, they have pledged their October, November and December royalties from their Vintage Romance Publishing novels to the USO program, United Through Reading. “I wanted to choose an organization that reached out to those serving our country, and could think of no organization more deserving than the USO,” Grant explained. Growing up with a father in the Air Force, Ms. Grant remembers her father being away for periods of time and knows what this generation of military children is going through with parents serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. When she got older, she heard the stories of how, when she was an infant and toddler, she refused to go to her father when he returned from year-long tours in Vietnam and Guam, as she didn’t recognize who he was. “I know it broke his heart and I’m glad the USO has a program that helps parents stay connected to their children while they’re away. It’s hard on everyone when parents are deployed and I’m glad today’s children have the help of the USO,” Grant commented.
The United Through Reading program helps unite deployed service men and women and their children with a little help from a video camera and a book. At participating USO Service Centers, the service members can videotape themselves reading a children’s book, and the resulting DVD and copy of the book are then sent to the child back home. The family is encouraged to photograph the child’s excitement of having the book read to them by the absent parent, which is then sent back to the deployed service member. “These men and women do so much for us,” Surbeck said. “They are our brothers, our sisters, our lovers, and friends. In this small way, I can help back.”
1944…She didn’t want to love him. Colleen Vaughn has experienced the effects of war firsthand as a US Army Nurse. When she’s told her fiancé has been shot down and killed in action, she vows never to fall in love again. Then she meets a pair of haunting blue eyes and a dimpled smile. Only problem is – he’s another pilot. He wouldn’t let her walk away. As a P-51 pilot, Captain Daniel Ryan has one mission: protect the bombers and get back alive. The last thing he needs is to fall in love. Soon he wonders just who is more dangerous – the enemy firing back at him or the woman who fights the love they share. The war brought them together. Would it also tear them apart?
Haunted by her past, Kaitlyn O'Connel ventures to New York to become a guardian rail rider, ensuring young orphans go to good homes and families. Calum Banagher's American prosperity is threatened by the young, beautiful Agent who questions his morality and ethics, lodging accusations that he has prospered from child labor. He not only wants to prove her wrong to clear his name, but to win her heart.
A PAIR OF WINGS and BOUND BY HOPE are available in trade paperback through bookstores and on-line outlets.
The United Through Reading program helps unite deployed service men and women and their children with a little help from a video camera and a book. At participating USO Service Centers, the service members can videotape themselves reading a children’s book, and the resulting DVD and copy of the book are then sent to the child back home. The family is encouraged to photograph the child’s excitement of having the book read to them by the absent parent, which is then sent back to the deployed service member. “These men and women do so much for us,” Surbeck said. “They are our brothers, our sisters, our lovers, and friends. In this small way, I can help back.”
1944…She didn’t want to love him. Colleen Vaughn has experienced the effects of war firsthand as a US Army Nurse. When she’s told her fiancé has been shot down and killed in action, she vows never to fall in love again. Then she meets a pair of haunting blue eyes and a dimpled smile. Only problem is – he’s another pilot. He wouldn’t let her walk away. As a P-51 pilot, Captain Daniel Ryan has one mission: protect the bombers and get back alive. The last thing he needs is to fall in love. Soon he wonders just who is more dangerous – the enemy firing back at him or the woman who fights the love they share. The war brought them together. Would it also tear them apart?
Haunted by her past, Kaitlyn O'Connel ventures to New York to become a guardian rail rider, ensuring young orphans go to good homes and families. Calum Banagher's American prosperity is threatened by the young, beautiful Agent who questions his morality and ethics, lodging accusations that he has prospered from child labor. He not only wants to prove her wrong to clear his name, but to win her heart.
A PAIR OF WINGS and BOUND BY HOPE are available in trade paperback through bookstores and on-line outlets.
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