Chapter 1

By a chance encounter, Lena meets Kara, a soldier home on leave as she waits for her next deployment, at a local coffee shop one afternoon. As they start talking, Lena feels drawn to Kara; there's something about her warmth and openness that fills the gap left by Lena's troubled childhood.

They grow close over the following months, falling for each other as they spend more time together. But Kara's deployment is inevitable, and with promises that she'll come home, Lena waits for her.