Life and love often turn on random events-and few events are more life-altering than war.
In the tense lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, Wade Moran, a seasoned senior enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army, has finally found the woman he never expected to meet: Lauren Troche, a child-welfare student looking to restart her life in Savannah, Georgia. Her strength, compassion, and faith challenge him in ways combat never has. Their connection is immediate, powerful, and full of promise-until Wade's unit receives deployment orders.
Suddenly, Wade and Lauren must decide what love requires when the future is uncertain. When Wade proposes marriage, Lauren hesitates, mentally weighing the risk of giving her heart to a man who may return changed-or may not return at all. For the next nine months, their relationship will be tested across two fronts: the battlefields of Iraq and the lonely home front in Savannah. Missed calls, miscommunications, trauma, temptation, and distance threaten to pull them apart, even as faith and duty push them to endure. When deployment changes everything, Wade and Lauren come to believe they may have lost each other forever.
Blending action-adventure, military realism, and romance, Desert Soup follows a soldier and the woman who loves him through the victories and wounds of modern war. As Wade enters Baghdad at the spearpoint of the American advance, and Lauren fights to hold onto hope from home, both are transformed by the cost of service and the demands of love.
A gripping blend of military action, wartime romance, faith, and emotional suspense, Desert Soup asks what survives when war strips everything else away.
