Suicide Squeeze

About the Book

On a whim, Sgt. Nick (Bubba) Campbell answers the compelling plea from six-year old, Ryan Eastman, to see the airplanes at Dover Air Force Base. Nick had been requested by his best friend, Lt. Trey Jordan, to look out for his girlfriend when Trey was deployed to the Middle East. While providing Anne support, Nick's feelings become emotionally entangling. Writing to Ryan was a diversion, but soon enough Nick's heart is drawn to help young widow Sherry Eastman and her precocious son.

However, commitment and love don't come easily for Sgt. Nick Campbell. Now sexual desires without entanglement - that was another story - a story of a wild Oklahoma boy growing up with the twin brother and family he loves.

While fighting against his feelings and desires, Nick finally realizes that life with Sherry and Ryan is just what he needs. When Sherry reveals her pregnancy, Nick's fate and future are sealed; that is, until Nick's propensity to commit emotional suicide encroaches. To realize his future, Nick must first confront the source of his deep-seated pain and understand that not all grief and guilt is his to bear.

About the Author

"Life is a journey, not a destination," most aptly describes the author's trek through life. Almost sixteen years ago, when leaving her copy desk editor job at the local newspaper to be home with her sons, Brandon and Sean, Sue dipped her pen into the author's inkwell with nominal response to her first novels. After rearing the boys through PTA and Little League, divorce and many job changes, the winding course of life experiences led to the germination of a story idea that grew and flourished in light of current events in her local Delaware area.

"I had no intention of writing a novel," Sue says. But the writing muse cam e in the summer of 2002 and compelled her to reprise an old idea in the back of her mind and follow the story to fruition. Co-workers at Verizon in Denver, Pam Gruwell and Phylis Ferguson, gave encouragement and inspiration to keep at the task through the summer. And Trafford Publishing provided the vehicle to realize a life-long dream ­ to publish a novel.

Lt. Trey Jordan and his friend Sgt. Nick (Bubba) Campbell are a tribute to the many Air Force personnnel leaving family to serve at Dover Air Force Base. After the September 11th attacks, the airbase has worked tirelessly to provide the life's blood of military supplies to the Middle East. The Air Force helicopters flew for days and days to and from Dover to the Pentagon disaster sight in D.C. right past her home, a gruesome reminder of our changed world.

These days the author keeps busy working in her home upholstery shop, spending time with her teenaged sons, playing softball and volleyball with family and friends on Sunday and working full-time at Verizon in Dover, Delaware.