Casondra Poulsen

Finding Home: Brian's Journey Casondra Poulsen

Publisher Marketing: Finding Home: Brian's Journey is the sequel to Calling Me Home. Brian's story was just beginning as his sister Samantha's came full circle. Now as Brian returns to his military career in a training unit outside of Huntington Beach, California, the transfer offers him the opportunity to pursue Taya, the free-spirited chef he left behind when he chose to work through his Posttraumatic Stress Disorder alone. When his dreams with Taya are shattered, Brian is angry at the world and its creator. His family's peace adds to his struggle to find a place where he belongs. Brian makes a hasty decision to transfer back to his combat team, daring death to claim him. Before his arrival back in Washington with his Stryker Combat Team, Brian takes a road trip back to his father's hometown of Patterson, Missouri. It is here Brian remembers visiting his grandparents as a child, when life was simple and carefree. In the small Southeast Missouri town, Brian begins to face the demons that haunt him. With the enigmatic friendship of Mac, a young woman with a haunting past, Brian learns to live with his mistakes. Just when he is grasping the peace he craves and love even seems like a possibility again, duty calls and he returns to the warzone in Afghanistan. Can he forgive himself and let go of his angry pain to find love again? Will Brian find a place to call home or will his journey end on foreign soil?