Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin--then an infantry lieutenant--on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since that time, Darrin, now a colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts, has lived every one of those deployments intimately--distant enough to survive the years spent apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common purpose and a lifestyle they both love.
