A Marine's Second Chance — Marissa Dobson

Married life hadn't been everything that Wyoming Dorset dreamed of. She thought she knew what she was getting into when she fell in love with a Marine. Training and deployments were the least of their problems. What she couldn't deal with was the distance that Jeffrey put between them. Only a shell of the man she fell in love with stood before her. Five years -- that's how long they'd been married. As Jeffrey prepared for another deployment, he thought of Wyoming and wondered how much of their marriage he'd been there for. How much had he been gone for? The divide between them seemed to appear overnight and now he wasn't sure how to fix it. When unexpected news arrived hours before his deployment, somehow he convinced her to give him a second chance. She doesn't know why, but he believes that even with miles separating them, he can convince her that they haven't lost their chance. She's not sure if she believes him, but he'll be back in six months. That isn't too long to wait for her husband.