***PRELOVED/SECONDHAND*** The Homecoming

by Dan Walsh

World War II flying ace Shawn Collins returns home on leave to visit his wife’s grave and to spend time with his young son, Patrick. But his country isn’t ready to let him return to civilian life. Instead, they order him to report for a USO war bond tour up and down America’s east coast, accompanied by Hollywood starlets. Shawn sees that his aging father isn’t able to cope with Patrick for the duration of this tour, so he hired Patrick’s beloved social worker, Katherine Townsend, to be the child’s nanny.

When the tour is over, Shawn is sent back to England to train pilots, and because the London bombings are over, he takes Patrick and Katherine with him. But it was only a lull in the storm.