Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today! Plus, receive recommendations for your next Book Club read. Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral , and Love Lies Beneath.
She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Follow her on Twitter at EllenHopkinsLit. Hopkins examines the highs and lows of the mercurial nature of a relationship with someone whose first loyalty is to his or her country. The story will appeal to many readers. She was raised in northern California reading poetry and singing backupin her best friend's band.
The last thing she ever expected was to end up a military wife. But one night, she meets a handsome Marine named Cole. He doesn't match the stereotype of the aggressive military man she'd always presumed to be true; he's passionate and romantic, and he even writes poetry. Their relationship evolves into a deeply felt, sexually charged love affair that goes on for five years and survives four deployments.
Cole desperately wants Ashley to marry him, but when she meets another man, a college professor, with similar professional pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might be like outside the shadow of war. Written in Ellen Hopkins's stunning poetic verse style, Collateral captures the hearts of the soldiers on the battlefield and the minds of the friends, family, and lovers they leave behind.
While those at home may be far from the relentless, sand-choked skies of the Middle East and the crosshairs of a sniper rifle, they, too, sacrifice their lives and happiness for their country at war. And all must eventually ask themselves if the collateral damage it causes is worth the fight.
Loving a Marine who's an aggressive frontline marksman is almost impossible, especially when he's deployed. Cole's battalion has already deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. Draw-down be damned, Helmand Province and beyond looks likely for his fourth go-round. Crank by Ellen Hopkins. Glass by Ellen Hopkins. Perfect by Ellen Hopkins. Traffick by Ellen Hopkins. Identical by Ellen Hopkins.
Closer to Nowhere by Ellen Hopkins. Cole desperately wants Ashley to marry him, but when she meets another man, a college professor, with similar professional pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might be like outside the shadow of war. Written in Ellen Hopkins's stunning poetic verse style, Collateral captures the hearts of the soldiers on the battlefield and the minds of the friends, family, and lovers they leave behind.
While those at home may be far from the relentless, sand-choked skies of the Middle East and the crosshairs of a sniper rifle, they, too, sacrifice their lives and happiness for their country at war. And all must eventually ask themselves if the collateral damage it causes is worth the fight. Loving a Marine who's an aggressive frontline marksman is almost impossible, especially when he's deployed. Cole's battalion has already deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.
Draw-down be damned, Helmand Province and beyond looks likely for his fourth go-round. You'd think it would get easier. But ask me, three scratch-free homecomings make another less likely in the future.
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