The Other Side of September

About the Book

After service in Korea, Don Madison, a Corpsman in the Navy, visualized a happy life with his irresistible fiancé, Hanna Bentley who was so much in love with him when he left for Korea, but how does he react when he returns after a year and finds she is pregnant? Feeling betrayed and crushed, he’s transferred to Mare Island Naval Hospital in California. Upon arrival, he discovers his new Superior Officer is a woman. Lt. Erin O’ Quinn is a gorgeous redhead with blue eyes and a body to die for. Erin does all the right things for him to fall in love with her. But she causes friction when she acquires a newfound friend, Douglas Arrington III, whom she met on an airplane while flying home for Christmas. Don is suspicious of how close the relationship is between Erin and Douglas. He wonders if she is still a virgin or just pretends to be. She doesn’t want to let Don go, but he feels she is secretly seeing Roger without his knowledge. Will Don discover whether he is wrong about his mistrust of Erin or will he find he was right in his assumption of her actions? Don finds life was not as confusing in the poor coal mining town where he was raised. But, if all that has happened with Hanna and Erin is not enough, he finds himself being arrested for armed robbery and murder while on leave in San Francisco. Will he be able to prove his innocence? The Other Side of September is filled with excitement and surprises that will make it difficult to put the book down.

About the Author

After military service, the author’s career has been in public education and college teaching. He has five earned degrees from Monterey Peninsula College, East Tennessee State Univ., College of William and Mary, and Virginia Tech. The years of 1950-1954 were exciting times in his life where he kept a diary and several notebooks full of all the adventurous happenings during and after the war in Korea and his travels around the world. Finally, he blew the dust off the notebooks and developed them into this book.