A must-read novel. We hear the heroic efforts and acts of valor performed by our much-beloved troops, but we often forget the hero’s back at home. These heroes are the spouses. Although their duties do not entail heavy machinery and artillery, it does require a lot of patients, trust, sacrifice, love, and commitment. The constant separation due to deployments, months of boredom, lonely nights, and uncontrollable sexual desires, can cause even the strongest couples to experience emotional and physical separation; numbing the love between two entities that were once so durable. STARS, STRIPES, and SECRETS are stories about two couples whose marriage was unfortunately affected by the erratic military lifestyle.