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What do you do when the enemy that your husband is fighting shows up to help you save the war on the farm front? And your lonely and he looks like Val Kilmer in his best days…

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Ella didn’t expect to become master of her farm for the war effort. But she really couldn’t have guessed who she would come to depend on while awaiting her husband’s return…

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Ready for a different kind of war novel? With a struggle between loyalty and love on the home front? Can our heroine (a fallen woman?) hold family together amid temptation?

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Ella was part of revolution in work roles for women helping to win WWII, but few had a secret helper of the kind she had—creating a battle of the heart for her on the homefront.

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Ella’s husband knew only farming. When he returned from war to find Ella had expanded their operation with someone acting as the man of the farm now, the situation exploded.

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No one had prepared Ella to take over the farm, but now she was part of a movement in America and Britain that helped save the war — with the extra hand of her secret helper…

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ELLA’S WAR has won awards and recognition from numerous readers sites, including The Wishing Shelf, the Historical Novel Society, and Reader’s Favorite.

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Ella’s son, Reese, becomes our extra eye on the adult world around him, full of the unexpected: his mom as boss of the farm, a German POW worker/interloper, and a wounded GI father.

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Men’s work? Women’s work? Ella reached deep and found she could do it all, for her farm and the war effort but with some special help that she had to keep on the down-low, or else…

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Ella finds a new sense of pride, accomplishment, and identity through saving her farm for the U.S. WWII effort, but it comes with a secret that she must hide…and then decide.

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Little-known WWII history: the ravages of U-boats along America’s East Coast. Some 200 ships sunk. How can an officer from one of them face Ella and then offer his help?

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The Women’s Land Army that Ella becomes part of actually started in World War I, as this poster for a training school (at my alma mater!) shows. But Ella takes on some unexpected help…

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Temptations, challenges, restlessness abound for those left behind by their significant other during war. Ella’s sense of duty draws her into embracing the enemy…

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In this WWII range-finding tower that still stands to today in Fort Miles, Ella has an intense meeting with her Army lieutenant cousin to prevent removal of the German POW from her farm.

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To save their farm for the war, Ella accepts help from her least-preferred place. Then everything changes. Image: German POW work detail in Delaware.

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The optics of this coerced removal and caving to it are terrible. If it’s cohort institutions, such as Harvard and Columbia, can fight, why can’t Virginia? Because it is far more subject to the corrupt whims of public political control than private universities.

For all Jim’s stated altruistic and supposed personal reasons for resigning, I agree with other posters here that he made the wrong decision and should have fought and if need be forced the board to fire him and reveal its true colors.

I fear that this university, which has been my north star, may no longer reflect my values and I will have to separate from further support and loyalty to it.

Coincidence that this happened within 48 hours of the Republican governor of Virginia appointing four stuffed-shirt cronies of his from the high-finance world to that board, including his pal from the Carlyle group?

This event at UVa is atrocious. As an alumnus, I am stunned. The full story is yet to come out. What was the role of the UVa’s Board of Visitors? Would Jim have resigned if they had supported him staying and fighting?

Yup. And great post from Katie.

Ella faces a hard choice between heart and hearth, between daring and duty, when war descends on her life and a stranger crashes into her world.

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This classic, short government/industry film about the duty of wartime farms surfaces a profound moment for Ella. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtAd...

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Nothing like having friends get behind your book and promote the buzz around it. Thanks, Jill, Terri, and Joanne. (And Liz, behind the camera.) 🙂

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Without quite understanding it this way, Ella becomes part of an army of women who save the WWII effort by saving America’s farms during the war.

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Out of all the characters, I had the most fun writing Ella’s rascally rapscallion of a son, who helps her save the farm for the war effort, both with and in spite of the stranger who enters their lives.

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