Closing the Ring

In 1941, in Branagan, Michigan, the beautiful and spirited Ethel Ann Roberts captures the hearts of three friends, Teddy Gordon, Jack Etty and Chuck Harris, all young airmen. But Ethel Ann only has eyes for Teddy, a country boy with an open face and a dazzling smile. Their romance is full of passion and dreams for the future, until the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and Branagan’s boys are called to war. After a secret wedding, Teddy leaves with Ethel’s ring, her promise of eternal love – and a pact with Chuck that he will take care of Ethel if Teddy doesn’t make it back.

Two years later, Teddy’s B-17 Bomber crashes into Belfast’s Black Mountain. Ethel buries her searing pain, along with mementos of Teddy behind a wall in the home they had built together. She marries Chuck, bears him a daughter and lives with her heartache. When Chuck dies in 1991, a rift grows between Ethel and her daughter, Marie, who knew nothing of her mother’s past. Only Jack, whose love for Ethel has never waned, knows the secret she carries in her heart. And when a young Irish boy in Belfast unearths a gold ring inscribed with Ethel and Teddy’s names, the discovery finally brings Ethel’s past crashing down around her. Marie discovers the truth about her mother’s past, and Jack makes one last attempt to heal the pain of a lifetime. Now Ethel must travel to Ireland – either to end her life, or to begin it again. Inspired by true events, Closing the Ring is an epic romance about loss and closure, love and reconciliation, and the ability to find happiness when it seems all but gone.