The Atomic City Girls: A Riveting WWII Romance Novel

In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city that has rapidly grown to house the Manhattan Project during World War II. There, June joins hundreds of young women operating massive machines whose purpose remains unexplained. They know their work helps win the war but must keep silent about it. June seeks answers about her assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, a young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees her lab and understands the project's true purpose. Her roommate Cici pursues a different goal: finding a wealthy husband to escape her sharecropper background. Meanwhile, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer takes the job for its pay, unaware of the government's plans. When a security breach intertwines his fate with June's search for truth, and the bombing of Hiroshima reveals Oak Ridge's role, June must reckon with her beliefs about loyalty, patriotism, and war.