Where We Belong

For anyone who has ever fallen in love with a movie star.Physically and emotionally scarred after being held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Major Russell Thomas Jefferson has been posted to the American Embassy in London. Considered one of the best pilots in the Air Force, his superiors hope that it will only take time for Russell to regain his desire to fly.But Russell struggles with his desk job and the petty bureaucracies of office politics. Skiving off work one day, he helps a beautiful woman who stumbles as she steps out of a cab in front of him. The woman is Ava Gardner, whom Russell has idolised since he was 12.A friendship develops between Ava and Russell that soon becomes something more, and Russell decides to throw away his career to be with the woman he loves.But can people from two such different worlds truly find happiness?Rivers, Alton is the author of 'Where We Belong', published 2006 under ISBN 9780732282578 and ISBN 0732282578.