It Had To Be You (A World War II Romance)

By Cheryl Bolen
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Published: June 30, 2011
Words: 110,768 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465704627

Short description

IT HAD TO BE YOU chronicles the powerful love story of journalist Dianne Castle and enigmatic nightclub owner Johnny Honda from 1930s Los Angeles to a Japanese internment camp.

Extended description

A World War II love story for the ages. . .
The kind of book that you think about afterward. . . They [hero/heroine] grip your heart and make you weep.—In Print

It is definitely one for the keeper shelf.—Margaret Lawrence (Read more) A World War II love story for the ages. . .
The kind of book that you think about afterward. . . They [hero/heroine] grip your heart and make you weep.—In Print

It is definitely one for the keeper shelf.—Margaret Lawrence

I highly recommend It Had to Be You for an all-consuming and powerful love story.—Romance Communications Reviews*

Best Mainstream Novel – Golden Triangle*
Runner-up Best Mainstream Novel – Book of Your Heart*
Runner-up Best Historical – Now and Then*
Runner-up Best Historical – Show Me More*

*under various previous titles

The time is 1937. Journalist Dianne Castle mixes with Hollywood's elite post-Prohibition hedonists at the popular Club Borneo,owned by handsome Japanese American, Johnny Honda. Amidst the threat of war and chants of Yellow Peril, Dianne and Johnny fall in love, but it's a love not to be.

How can Johnny let his beloved Dianne throw her life away on the likes of him?

Dianne stubbornly vows to follow him to the ends of the earth-even if it means entering an internment camp.
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hollywood, historical romance, japanese american, american historical romance, world war ii fiction, world war ii romance, manzanar

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