Michael R Joens

The Missionary and the Marine is a Christian romance set in Naples, Italy, during the winter of 1971 and spring of 1972, between a missionary girl named Maddie Gallagher, and Nathan Kessler, a US Marine, stationed at the Marine Barracks, which guards the NATO base and other international facilities. The girl lives with her mother, father, and little brother in the Way Station, in downtown Naples, a homey place where American servicemen and women from...

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