01874cam a2200337 4500 547200026 TxAuBib 20140905120000.0 121113s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012029864 9781451626377 hardcover $24.99 1451626371 hardcover $24.99 9781451626384 trade paper 145162638X trade paper (OCoLC)779265912 DLC eng DLC BTCTA BDX OCLCO PWmBRO-upg20121029-021 TxAuBib Hopkins, Ellen. Collateral : a novel / Ellen Hopkins. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2012. xii, 496 p. ; 24 cm. Meet Ashley, a graduate student at San Diego State University. She was raised in northern California reading poetry and singing back-up in her best friend's band. The last thing she ever expected was to end up a military wife. But one night, she meets a handsome Marine named Cole. He doesn't match the stereotype of the aggressive military man she'd always presumed to be true; he's passionate and romantic, and he even writes poetry. Their relationship evolves into a deeply felt, sexually-charged love affair that goes on for five years and survives four deployments. Cole desperately wants Ashley to marry him, but when she meets another man, a college professor, with similar professional pursuits and values, she begins to see what life might be like outside the shadow of war. 20140905. United States Marine Corps Military life Fiction. Single women Fiction. Marines Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Novels in verse. Love stories. TXCKT