Three young men, two young women, one world war.Elizabeth Bittner is in love with Bill Hall whose smooth singing voice enthralls her. She can’t imagine a more exciting place than her home town of Marsh Point, but Pearl Harbor will bring a very adult world to her doorstep. For Veronica Marsh, Pearl Harbor is just the national catastrophe that follows her personal catastrophe. For Veronica’s brother Buck, and the Hall boys, Johnny and Bill, the war will mean the end of their carefree days of baseball and summer evenings in the town’s amusement park. First Johnny, and then Buck join the Marine Corps, but Bill is unable to serve.Johnny and Buck know their enemy on Guadalcanal and can seek him out in the shadows of the jungle. Back home in Marsh Point, however, the enemy of uncertainty is also in the shadows, but it cannot be subdued as easily. It will be difficult to give thanks on Thanksgiving Day, 1942.What was it like to be young in that fateful summer of 1941? Order now to return in time and take this moving journey.

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Austin Gisriel would have replaced Brooks Robinson at third base for the Baltimore Orioles, and it was only a lack of talent that kept him from doing so. “I discovered I could handle a pen better than a bat,” laughs Gisriel who has written a great deal about baseball, including Fathers, Sons, & Holy Ghosts: Baseball as a Spiritual Experience (2017) and Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser (2014: Summer Game Books) among others. Gisriel also has growing interest in World War II. “It started with my enjoyment of swing music. I began reading up on the time and going through my father’s effects. He served on a destroyer. This interest grew to include swing dancing and really caught fire when I was researching Boots Poffenberger’s life and career. Boots played baseball for several Marine Corps teams and as I read his letters and various clippings from that time, I was moved to write on the subject.” The Secret of Their Midnight Tears is the result. A graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, Gisriel has published a collection of flash fiction entitled, Time Is A Pool, which focuses on those moments when life intersects with Life. A former high school English teacher in Maryland, he and his wife, Martha, have two grown daughters, Rebecca and Sarah, either one of whom would have been named “Brooks” had either one been boys. The Gisriels recently moved to Stephenson, VA after living in Williamsport, MD for almost 23 years. Austin invites you to follow his blog at www.austingisriel.com

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