A teenage romance launched innocently in a small New England town is ruptured by a war thousands of miles away. Told in alternating voices of the two main characters, Mike and Kate face the challenge of their lives when Mike's tour of Vietnam plants him and his platoon daily in the cross-hairs of danger, severely wounding Mike, and leaving the reader wondering if he will survive or see his first love again. A Summer in Time captures all the longing two lovers feel at being separated by circumstances beyond their control, and the excitement of battle scenes evoked by the author from his own tours of Vietnam.