Roses in December

<p>Jimmy Hamilton overcame childhood tragedy to become a hero in Vietnam only to die there in 1967. All but forgotten Jimmy leaves behind a young wife an infant son and a man wracked by guilt.</p><p><br></p><p>Circumstances allow Becca his young widow to be manipulated into an abusive loveless union with Jimmy's brother and into raising her son ignorant of his father's true identity-a wrong she knows must be set right...<em>but how? When?</em></p><p><br></p><p>Like Jimmy before him James Jr. is an intellectually gifted albeit troubled man. Hamstrung by the false narrative of his life and then tormented by an unspeakable loss his days are spent treading the knife's edge between present day reality and a past he's incapable of forgetting.</p><p><br></p><p>With his final act of bravery Jimmy unknowingly saved the scion of a powerful Washington family. In so doing he set in place circumstances that just <em>might</em> draw his son back from the abyss...but <em>only</em> if he can somehow make it home from Vietnam.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Roses in December</em> concludes the Hamilton Place series an epic family saga extending from the Great Depression to present day. Through war and peace love and loss triumph and tragedy follow the Hamilton family on their journey from a run-down farm in South Carolina through the jungles of Vietnam to the top of the world in New York City and beyond the gardens of stone at Arlington.</p>