Böcker av Kenn Sharpe

Petty Officer First Class Jacob Shaw was a Navy air traffic controller stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. His professional career was on the fast track, but his personal life was in shambles, living in a marriage that should have never happened and was failing. Jake had been selected as the Navy's representative to the Federal Aviation Administration's National Controllers Operational Procedures Committee or COPCOM and traveled twice a year to Washington, DC, for the meeting. On his second trip to Washington, he met a woman who grabbed his heart and invaded his soul. They spent the next year in a tumultuous love affair that Jake still carries in his heart to this day. MS. Teresa Murkowski, or Tee as she preferred to be called, was an administrative assistant who'd recently been hired to support COPCOM.During the spring meeting, when Tee walked into the conference room, Jake's heart skipped a beat. After sharing lunch together under the Tidal Basin's cherry blossoms, they embarked on an intense love affair that opened Jake's eyes to what love could be. Although Jake and Tee faced huge hurdles including Jake still being married and living 2,500 miles apart, he had a plan to resolve these almost insurmountable challenges and keep Tee in his life. Then during the fall meeting, when an early and unusual major snowstorm hit DC, Jake had to face the reality of what lay ahead for them.Along the way with Washington DC, Atlanta, and the Pacific Northwest as a backdrop, Jake was able to gain support to be a commissioned naval officer from a powerful US senator, establish a strong rapport with Navy and FAA movers and shakers, and experience loving and being loved at a level he'd never known.

Navy Captain Jacob Shaw is close to reaching his professional goal. He is setting himself up to be promoted to Navy admiral and has strong support from politically elected officials and political appointees, along with high-ranking military officers from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Prior to his promotion to Navy captain, he meets a woman on a flight from Tampa to Washington, DC. They start a love affair, and she ends up being the woman he has been looking for his whole adult life. Their relationship grows, and together they flourish. Jake and Barbara Rostowski--or Bobbie, as she likes to be called--find a rhythm together where they are far better as a couple than they ever could have been individually. After they have an unusual engagement and a spur-of-the-moment marriage in a way that could only have been orchestrated by Jake, they embark on building a good life together. The only thing left for Jake to achieve his pinnacle of success and be at the top of the mountain is making admiral.Then one day, Jake's whole life changes. He faces an impenetrable blockade to his dream. But now, with Bobbie, the love of his life at his side, he is ready to start again but with a whole new set of rules.