A novel inspired by true events
It began with six minutes.
In March 1942, Grace Renner and Charlie Schoenknecht shared six unexpected minutes—and stretched them into seventeen days before duty separated them. What followed was a relationship built through letters, across distance and a world at war.
Inspired by the author’s grandparents and their surviving wartime correspondence, 310 Groveland Avenue is a novel about love, resilience, and the lives we build while waiting.
Charlie · North Africa
Grace & Charlie · Minneapolis, 1942
Charlie & Friends – California
Grace in MinneapolisA novel inspired by true events
310 Groveland Avenue
Seventeen days. A world at war. A love built through letters.
Grace makes a home at 310 Groveland Avenue—finding purpose in her work, strength in her friendships, keeping her faith, and meeting a changing world with humor. Charlie goes from training camp to North Africa and Europe, discovering competence, duty, and the parts of himself the war will permanently alter.
Inspired by the author’s grandparents and their surviving wartime letters, the novel follows two ordinary people through distance, uncertainty, and the quiet choices that shape a lifetime.
The What We Inherit series
Every generation receives more than names and photographs.
We inherit stories, silences, resilience, humor, and the consequences of choices made long before we arrived. What We Inherit follows one family through the generations, with each novel shaped by the voice and pressures of its time.
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The past is not finished with us.
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