The Call of the Wrens introduces the little-known story of the
daring women who rode through war-torn Europe carrying secrets on their
shoulders.
An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Marion Hoxton found
in the Great War something other than destruction. She discovered a
chance to belong. As a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service--the
Wrens--Marion gained sisters. She found purpose in her work as a
motorcycle dispatch rider assigned to train and deliver carrier pigeons
to the front line. And despite the constant threat of danger, she and
her childhood friend Eddie began to dream of a future together. Until
the battle that changed everything.
Now twenty years later, another war has broken out across Europe,
calling Marion to return to the fight. Meanwhile others, like
twenty-year-old society girl Evelyn Fairchild, hear the call for the
first time. For Evelyn, serving in the war is a way to prove herself
after a childhood fraught with surgeries and limitations from a
disability. The re-formation of the Wrens as World War II rages is the
perfect opportunity to make a difference in the world at seventy miles
per hour.
Told in alternating narratives that converge in a single life-changing
moment, The Call of the Wrens is a vivid, emotional saga of love,
secrets, and resilience--and the knowledge that the future will always
belong to the brave souls who fight for it.
- Historical, stand-alone novel
- Book length: approximately 94,000 words
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
