Between Your Heart and Mine
About
When President Roosevelt orders the evacuation of the Japanese-American community into internment camps, Elizabeth Compton finds herself torn between the family of her birth and the family of her heart. The daughter of a United States Senator who helped draft Executive Order 9066, Elizabeth considers her true family to be the Uchidas, the Nisei caretakers of her father’s California estate. Horrified by watching the people she loves being treated as enemy aliens, Elizabeth pleads with her only parent to intercede. Her pleas fall on deaf ears. Guided by a desire to embarrass her father, as well as to show her loyalty to the Uchidas, Elizabeth voluntarily takes up residence in the Ruby Lake Internment Camp for the duration of the war.
Navy Lieutenant Cary Kalinowski lost his only brother in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deemed unfit to return to active duty due to his injuries, Cary is offered a job as an army recruiter. Anxious to be of service to the war effort, Cary accepts the assignment before learning that he will be recruiting from within the confines of an internment camp. His arrival at Ruby Lake tests his resolve to be impartial as he struggles with his bitterness at all things Japanese, not to mention the interference of his newly appointed assistant, Miss Elizabeth Compton.
Firmly entrenched on opposite sides, can Cary and Elizabeth find a way to compromise? Or will the anger and hurt they each feel make it impossible for them to work together?