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<p>Gennie Black is a teenager when she marries Will Mueller. America has just entered World War II, and Pearl Harbor is a recent, raw wound on the national psyche. The young couple has time for a brief honeymoon before Will ships out, bound for the Pacific Ocean theater of battle. Short though the interlude is, it's long enough for Gennie to get pregnant.</p> <p>With the war's end, Will returns home a changed man-harder, easily angered, and with a deep, abiding hatred for all things Japanese. Despite her best efforts, Gennie cannot break down the emotional barricades he's erected. Slowly but surely he pushes her away, alienating himself from his family as he nurses a deep pain and a crippling gambling habit.</p> <p>When Will's business partner dies in an apparent accident, Gennie finds herself the keeper of a deep secret. Her struggle to reconcile this secret with her own sense of justice sets in motion a series of events with serious and potentially fatal consequences for her family and friends.</p> <p>A moving period piece set between 1941 and 1965, <i>Wavering Justice</i> chronicles Gennie's struggle to maintain her sense of right and wrong as America heals from the devastation of war.</p>