To Love Thine Enemy

J. P. Emanuel fought in the military. LaBelle Boudreaux fought in a different war. Two warriors, with one dead soldier, his memory, and a promise between them, they faced each other on a battlefield of love, the love they each felt for Chase LaRue Boudreaux. LaBelle mourned the loss of her husband, Chase. He faced his final moments in a bloody conflict on the arid soil of Afghanistan as heaven, hell, and earth met in the aftermath of a violent explosion that swept him into eternity. Questions, emotions, tore at her. The prayers she poured on the fiery altar of guilt, she feared, in this life, would never find answers. The question that bled her heart daily, deeply was, Did we win, Chase?J. P. materialized suddenly, a soldier who fought with Chase. LaBelle discerned he could have her answer. One thing stood in the way of getting that answer...the hostility for her she saw deep in his eyes. LaBelle knew that before she got her answer, she would have to fight hatred coming from the grave, and protect her son, Charlie Chase, from it...again. Fortified behind a wall of bitter antagonism, J. P. marched into the sweltering heat of the Lowcountry, a culture dissimilar to any he'd experienced, to deliver a blow to his military buddy's evil wife, LaBelle Boudreaux, and keep his promise to his dead friend, a good man. A tactical blow, then leave...until he saw her and knew he had to defeat her, the enemy, for Chase and the promise. Or, was it for him?As J. P. and LaBelle's lives merged in a volatile intersection of time, love and hate met, and warred. Both had ammunition: a war of words where prayer, strength, faith, and unbidden desires could save them, or destroy them. Yet...love had a different plan. If only they would surrender to it...