“Because of You is a beautifully crafted, wonderfully emotional debut.”~ JoAnn Ross New York Times bestselling authorWelcome Home – these are the words every soldier longs to hear after an endless deployment. But for Sergeant First Class Shane Garrison, there’s no one waiting when he arrives back at Fort Hood, unconscious and barely hanging on. The IED that nearly took his life took something … hanging on. The IED that nearly took his life took something more important – something he’s afraid he’ll never get back.
Working as nurse at Fort Hood’s busy hospital, Jen St. James has seen her share of wounded warriors pass through her hallways. But there’s something about Shane that draws her close, even when she knows her own brush with death has left her scarred.
As Shane struggles to recover, Jen is the only one who can see what’s happening to him. As the wounds of war drag him further away from healing and everyone around him who matters, Jen is there, pushing him, demanding that he continue to fight to get back to the only thing he believes he’s good at.
Along the way, Shane learns the hard truth about life without the uniform and discovers that maybe, there’s someone for him to come home to after all.
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Jessica Scott is an exciting new voice in romantic fiction who bursts upon the scene with an unputdownable debut novel!
Edgy and current — and a truly satisfying love story. Put this book, Jessica Scott’s, Because of You, on your “must read” list.
Jessica Scott writes an intense story, packed with realism and emotion. Because of You will tug at your heartstrings.
Because of You is a powerful debut — emotional, heartbreaking and uplifting all at once, it’s a romance not to be missed!
Shane was sent home from Iraq with multiple injuries. Jen is a nurse who has been battling breast cancer. As they both recover, they fall in love. They both have many “demons” to overcome.Other characters in the book add interest to the story.
It was a quick read with great characters and I’m a sucker for happily ever after!
It was okay but kinda boring!
Jessica Scott’s Coming Home series is beautifully written and totally gut-wrenching. Her characters are powerful, often damaged by experiences that no one should ever have to endure, and their emotions ring as true as only someone who has lived through the chaos of war and the wrenching adjustment to life in the so-called “normal” world could possibly understand—and write in a manner that makes the story all too real. This amazing author, an Iraq war veteran, an active duty army officer as well as a mom and a wife pulls the reader into the minds of men and women whose struggles had me in tears more than I expected when I started the book—a tribute to the author’s skill in creating emotional depth that is all too real.
BECAUSE OF YOU is the first in the Coming Home series. Sgt. Shane Garrison and Jen St. James are both damaged—they each wear their own scars, inside and out, but they’re such admirable people, both of them as different as night and day, yet sharing a core of goodness that is uplifting in spite of the pain that defines them. I really could not put this book down. It’s a special release, as the author says, to mark ten years since she returned from Iraq and began her own journey back into some semblance of normal.
One thing I will say about Jessica Scott’s writing…it is so far beyond “normal” as to create its own level of amazing. I definitely recommend this book, I encourage you to read it and be prepared to read the entire series, and anything else this author has written. Truly a beautifully told story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished the final page.
Great series with military theme. Recommend them all.
I didn’t care for the book
Loved this book! The struggles that the characters went through was real. Sad to know how much support is lacking for service men and women returning home. Not all wounds are visible.
I mostly enjoyed it initially but it seemed to end a bit abruptly and sometimes the dialog seemed repetitive and not realistic, especially as the plot was supposedly advancing. Overall I was a bit disappointed and probably wouldn’t read more of her stuff.
Really enjoyed this story…seemed realistic to me a non military person.
Authentic, emotional, and edgy, Jessica Scott’s sweeping military romance is a vivid snapshot of love, war, grief and-above all-hope.
Jessica Scott has written a beautiful love story filled with heart, tender emotion, unflinching honesty and gritty realism. Because of You is a military romance you will never forget!
Watch out Navy SEALS, there’s a new hero in town and he’s wearing Army gray! Because of You is a beautifully crafted, wonderfully emotional debut.
Because of You is a tough and tender romance that proves the one thing worth fighting for will always be true love. Jessica Scott is a vibrant new voice in contemporary romance!
In Because of You, Jessica Scott presents a realistic and emotionally gripping tale of life in and around the military. A wonderful debut, and I can’t wait to read the next in this compelling series.
An amazing debut novel. Jessica Scott writes military romance with an authenticity and emotional depth that’s impossible to beat.
Jessica Scott writes with a soldier’s heart. Because Of You is touching, authentic and a fantastic read.