Vicki Hinze, Her Perfect Life

Her Perfect Life

Vicki Hinze

Signature Select, Apr 2006, $5.99

ISBN: 0373836929

For six years Air Force pilot Katie Cole Slater has been a prisoner of war held by a warlord in Iraq, but now is free to go home. She survived her ordeal due to her now frayed photo's of her husband Sam and their two children Molly and Jake. First the army psychiatrists want to know more about what went wrong. Katie is uncooperative, as she is irate that they keep her from her family, and that they assume team when she was abandoned and her team was that of one. Her motto now is do not depend on anyone except yourself. However, even home is not what it was when she went on active duty, as her spouse Sam has remarried as she was assumed dead.

Heartbroken, her only connection is her copilot C.D. Quade who she thought died when their plane crashed. Still she is irate with C.D. because he failed her in the desert by leaving her behind. C.D. feels guilty for what happened to Katie, the only woman he loves. He plans to help her readjust, though her world has seemingly collapsed in the time she spent as a captive.

HER PERFECT LIFE is a tense character study that grips readers from the moment that a justified belligerent Katie comes home and has to deal with the brass, a remarried former husband, and the belief that her pal deserted her. The storyline is totally Katie, as she adjusts to life in a strange America after six plus years of captivity. The romance between her and C.J. augments a strong look at a former POW trying to regain her equilibrium.