Rosie's Promise (Electronic book text)

A summer of love, choices and changes. Billy Ray and Rosie, each full of the promise of innocence and youth, want more than their rural Midwest home can offer. During this tumultuous Vietnam era, Rosie is excited to accept a scholarship to college. But Billy reveals his defiance of his pacifist, preacher father by declaring that at the end of summer he will enlist to fight in the war. With the realization looming that all they may ever have is this one last summer together, Billy Ray and Rosie explore their youthful love and passion. Rosie swears to wait for his return from Vietnam. But only Fate knows how long Rosie's promise will keep her waiting in bittersweet vigil-and what the consequences of their actions might mean for their future. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language.