The Women: A Powerful Story of Courage, Sacrifice, and Finding One’s Voice

"Women can be heroes, too."  When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, they shatter everything she thought she knew about herself. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island, sheltered by her conservative parents, she has spent her life being the good girl, doing what’s expected. But in 1965, the world is changing—protests rise, war rages, and Frankie begins to imagine a different future.

When her beloved brother ships out to Vietnam, she makes a bold, impulsive choice: she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows in his footsteps. Nothing could have prepared her for what she faces. As green and inexperienced as the young soldiers sent into battle, Frankie is thrust into a world of unimaginable chaos, heartbreak, and sacrifice.

"You are not allowed to be broken. You are a woman, and America does not know what to do with broken women."

But surviving the war is only half the battle. Returning home to an America that wants to forget Vietnam, Frankie must fight for her place in a country that refuses to see her service, her sacrifices—or her trauma. Along the way, she will forge deep bonds of sisterhood with the women who stood beside her and learn that love, though powerful, can also bring the greatest pain. 

Epic, emotional, and unforgettable, *The Women* is a story of resilience, friendship, and the cost of defying expectations.

Because some battles aren’t fought on the battlefield—sometimes, the hardest fight is coming home.