A wounded warrior fighting demons and a young woman who lost her love in the war try to build a relationship.
Sarah Lawson's fiancé Logan Miller died in Afghanistan. She receives a text from Brandon Perdue, one of his war buddies, who wants to meet and deliver a message to her from Logan.
Physically and emotionally scarred, Brandon values Sarah's friendship. In time Sarah finds herself attracted to him andwants their relationship to deepen, but he fears she's projecting her feelings for Logan on to him.
Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
