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"Simone" is the debut novel by S. J. Dennis. In Simone we meet Frank Larson, Simone Chauveau and their adult children as they revisit their past and look to their futures together.
Frank Larson tried to leave the memories of his World War II battlefields behind when he returned from the war. He plunged into college and marriage, grew a business and raised a daughter, all the time repressing the worst memories of his past. Pressure from his adult daughter, a fellow veteran and his own conscience suddenly threatened the delicate balance between past and present he’d maintained for nearly 50 years.
“You’ve got to go to our unit’s reunion in Belgium,” his friend implored. “Do it for yourself. Do it for me. Do it for the guys that didn’t come home.”
Succumbing to the pressure, he agrees to go with one condition; daughter Anita, stuck in an emotional rut following a messy divorce, must come along.
Arriving in Bastogne Belgium, for the Battle of the Bulge commemoration events, his plans take an unexpected twist when he encounters an elegant Belgian woman, Simone Challon. His stunned daughter soon learns that a young Simone hid and cared for a wounded Frank Larson when he was trapped behind enemy lines during the battle. What the daughter didn’t hear was that they had grown very close during that time; two young people tossed together by the tides of war.
Frank and Simone find they had each led similar lives. Following the war both married, raised families, lost their spouses and were now living predicable uncomplicated lives on separate continents. While drawn to each other both realize the futility of their rekindled feelings.
This is a story of love and war, of fathers and daughters and of Frank and Simone. Both have faced the terrors of war, losing friends and loved ones in the process. Both have lived rich, full lives and now find life’s inertia pulling them to a comfort zone built around friends, family and familiar surroundings. This is the story of their efforts to balance the pull of their hearts against the resistance of their practical minds. It is a story that takes them from the streets of Bastogne and Seattle to the ski slopes of San Moritz as they refresh their fifty year old relationship and contemplate the future.
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