Very Narrow Bridge (Gideon Gold Investigations, #1)

A reclusive Vietnam War hero, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, falls in love with a young woman, unaware that she is his biological daughter. A loner, wounded both in body and in soul, Ray is attracted to Joy because she reminds him so much of the woman who was once his high school sweetheart, and who wrote him the fateful "Dear John" letter to Vietnam that sets the wheels of this spellbinding novel in motion.

That woman, Ursula, who dumped Ray during the war (for another man...