Waves of Faith

Book Description.

As children of the Great Depression, Beverly Nelson and Chester Tretiak learn early what it means to go without.

Their families, stripped of livelihoods, struggle through years of meager meals and threadbare clothes. When both families relocate to Santa Rosa, California, the two children find in each other a friendship that blossoms amid shared hardship.

Their teenage romance barely begins before Pearl Harbor pulls Chester’s ship into war. The hardship that once united them now divides them across the Pacific.

While Chester battles the enemy, Beverly takes on a welding job at Mare Island Shipyard. Each earns a scar–hers from molten metal, his from a typhoon’s parting blow.

When the catastrophic war finally ends, can they reconcile these new wounds, both visible and hidden, to salvage their love?