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From the sensational writer of the young adult classics Tilt, Crank, and Perfect - and the New York Times best-selling writer of the adult book Triangles - the gripping storyline of a woman torn between love for her boyfriend, a fervent Marine deployed to Afghanistan, and the resentment she has for the war that is tearing their lives aside. Written in Hopkins's stunning poetic verse style, Guarantee centers around Ashley, an MFA pupil at NORTH PARK State University or college. She was raised reading books rather than dreamed she'd become a armed forces wife. One evening she complies with a attractive soldier called Cole. He doesn't match the stereotype of the ambitious armed forces man. He's passionate and intimate. He even writes poetry. Their romantic relationship evolves into a sexually billed romance that continues on for five years and survives four deployments. Cole wishes Ashley to marry him, but when she complies with another man, a teacher with similar pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might end up like outside the darkness of war. Guarantee captures the hearts of the military on the battlefield and the thoughts of the friends, family, and enthusiasts they leave back of. Those who continue to be at home may be a long way away from the relentless, sand-choked skies of the center East and the crosshairs of a sniper rifle, but just the same, all of them will sacrifice a part of themselves for his or her country and all will eventually ask themselves if the guarantee damage induced by war is worth the fight.
