Sally Rose

By William P. Davis

Berkeley, 1968. America is divided by Vietnam. The streets are filled with protests. And Sally Rose is about to collide-quite literally-with a man who sees the world entirely differently from her. Sally is a singer-songwriter with a battered guitar case, a sharp tongue, and an instinct for turning everything around her into a song. John Winston is a mathematics student from Colorado who prefers problems with answers, shirts that are properly ironed, and feelings that can be kept safely to himself. Their first meeting on involves a bicycle, several ruined pages of music, and an argument about whether a chord is too polite. It should have ended there. Instead, Sally discovers that beneath John's careful exterior is a man carrying more than he knows how to say. John's older brother Jeff is preparing to leave for Vietnam. Their father believes Jeff was drafted-but the truth is far more complicated, and John has promised to keep it hidden. As Jeff moves closer to war and Berkeley erupts around them, John and Sally find themselves caught between loyalty and honesty, protest and duty, fear and love. She writes songs. He searches for proof. Neither is prepared for what happens when life refuses to follow the rules. Warm, witty, romantic, and set against the turmoil of 1968, Sally Rose is a story about the people behind the politics: brothers divided by a war, families bound together by the things they cannot say, and two young people discovering that love may be the one thing worth believing in without evidence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPWDYGW3
• ISBN13: 9798166508980
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"