Battle Scars

Meghan O'Brien is the author of ten lesbian romance/erotica novels published by Bold Strokes Books, including Thirteen Hours (2009 GCLS Award, Lesbian Erotica), Wild (2011 Rainbow Award, Best Lesbian Novel), The Night Off (2012 Rainbow Award, Lesbian Erotic Romance and 2013 GCLS Award, Lesbian Erotica), The Muse (2015 Foreword INDIE Bronze Medalist, 2015 Lambda Literary Award, 2016 GCLS Award in Lesbian Erotica), and Her Best Friend's Sister (2018 GCLS Award, Erotica and 2017 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Erotica). She lives in the Bay Area with her wife Angie, their son, and a motley collection of lovable pets.

Returning Iraq war veteran Ray McKenna struggles with battle scars that can only be healed by love.
Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she had attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude. Struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety that plague her, she relies on her psychiatric therapy dog Jagger to help her through the vicious symptoms of PTSD.

Veterinarian Dr. Carly Warner hasn't yet figured out how to open her heart to the possibility of falling in love again after the death of her longtime partner. When Ray McKenna walks into the North Coast Veterinary Clinic with Jagger, she and Carly begin a friendship that takes them both by surprise. Brought together by their shared love of dogs, Ray and Carly discover that they are both capable of moving forward, if only they are brave enough to try.