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In this fast-paced debut thriller, a recently disabled, female veteran must confront her past, and other people’s preconceived notions about women in combat, while trying to reconcile the conflicted feelings she has for the best friend who saved her life back in the sand, and still find time to hunt down a home-grown terrorist before he blows up a beloved national treasure in Cleveland.
Soldier’s Heart was the first known term for PTSD as it described an irritable heart condition marked by a rapid pulse, trouble breathing, sleeplessness, and general anxiety associated with soldiers returning home from war.
Despite how hard she tries to deny it, for Evin Walker, sometimes the war follows you home.
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About the Author
Vance Voyles spent eight years in the US Army as an Arabic linguist, followed by over twenty years of law enforcement, seven of which were spent investigating Sex Crimes and Homicide in Central Florida, sitting in long conversations with rapists and murderers making up stories to help them confess their crimes.
His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been featured in Burrow Press Review, Flash Fiction Online, The Short Story Podcast, Ghost Parachute, Bull, Creative Nonfiction, Pithead Chapel, J Journal, O-Dark-Thirty, Hippocampus (Pushcart Prize Nomination), So Say We All, and Rattle Magazine respectively.
Soldier’s Heart is his first novel.
He currently resides in Ohio with his wife and children, where he is busy adapting his screenplay, Darker Forces at Play, an Adam Driver’s 2021 Bridge Award semi-finalist, into the second book in the Evin Walker series.
Police Officer, English Professor, and Novelist