Do you know how long it's been since someone really smiled at me? Sunny, will you be my girl?" Your hair looked like gold against the blue sky, and then you smiled at me. "The minute I saw you standing in the garden with all these flowers around you, I knew you were right for me. This is from one of Phillip's speeches on their first date: Who will Veronica choose? Or will the Japanese bombers choose for her? Will Phillip survive to the end of the book? They meet in the late autumn of 1941.īefore Veronica knows it, she's being wooed by two men: Phillip, a so-called "romantic" man who likes to hear himself talk and Mike, a guy who's more down-to-earth and all-around-nice-guy. Two years older, in fact, a Navy man, Phillip Easterwood who's stationed on the U.S.S. However, there just happens to be one boy there-a very cute boy at that-who is around her age.
A party mostly consisting of those her parents' age. Her boyfriend, Mike Kokohuilano, is Hawaiian. Her best friend, Toshi Nakamura, is of Japanese descent. Veronica Bennett, unlike her parents, has an open mind. Prejudices against those native Hawaiians prejudices against the Japanese. Veronica portrays the subtle-and-not-so-subtle prejudices of the day. He's been stationed there all of her life, she was born and raised there. This particular Sunfire Romance novel is set during World War II.
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