Colonel McNeil's Daughter

Perry McNeil, the Navy's fi rst female Air Wing Commander, returns to a peacetime America and fi nds her homecoming is anything but peaceful. She gets caught in a triple-decker sandwich of people vying for her attention: her father battling to recover from a debilitating stroke, her teenage daughter who is contemplating leaving college to marry the Navy pilot who got her pregnant, and the Secretary of the Navy who wants to engineer the greatest coup of BOTH of their careers - putting the fi rst woman in charge of an aircraft carrier battle group. Perry thought she had dealt with the worst life could throw at her during the war but she soon discovered that her real battles were only just beginning! Can she be the person everyone needs her to be and still retain her sanity?

RON KARREN is the pseudonym for a former college professor who ?gdownsized?h to teaching computer science and technology for public schools in North Texas. Ron has been doing freelance and technical writing for the past twenty years and has researched and written on topics ranging from bird breeding to stock market simulations. Colonel McNeil?fs Daughter represents hours of painstaking research along with doses of inspiration that came from events in the author?fs own life. It is not Ron?fs first novel"Ythat honor goes to Wing Commander"Ybut is the first book where the author followed Mom?fs advice ?gto write what you know.?h On the personal side, the author would LOVE to hear from readers! If you enjoyed this book and would like to share your thoughts, please e-mail Ron at Rlohengramm@aol.com