About the Book

The story begins with a narrative of the early lives of the two main characters, jack Riordan and Susan Baker. Jack grows up on a farm in Australia, Susan in New Mexico, USA. Susan’s father is diagnosed with a terminal condition and decides to use his remaining time to take his family to Australia.

Here, at university, the two meet and fall in love. Jack had always wanted to become an Army officer and joins the University Regiment. In the meantime, Susan’s father dies and her mother becomes frantic with worry that her daughters will want to marry and remain in Australia. Susan falls pregnant and her mother takes the family back to the US while Jack is away in the army. On his return, he cannot find out where they have gone.

They are separated for three years. During this time their love never wavers, and their daughter, Jacqui is born. Jack is sent to fight in Vietnam, where he is engaged in several key battles and is decorated for his bravery and, by a stroke of good fortune, comes across Susan’s brother, Jimbo, who eventually tells him what had happened to Susan and their baby. Soon they are re-united and Jack brings his family back to Australia.

About the Author

Patrick Ford has lived in Goondiwindi, Queensland, for most of his life. He has been a farmer for most of this time, but has worked as a farm consultant and an accountant during this time. Currently, he is working part-time as an accountant and intends to retire at the end of 2013. Patrick has travelled extensively in North America, the UK, Ireland, Western Europe, and New Zealand. He has always had a love of history, particularly military history. As a youth, he had an ambition to become a regular army officer, but family commitments to the family farm precluded this. He began writing about a year ago and his first book, ‘Drowning in Her Eyes’, reflects a part of his early life that has been in his memory for almost fifty years and which he has always wanted to write about. Since then, he has written a total of six more novels, and is working on number eight.