Just as there is love, there is conflict...each vying for attention. Nicole Bower Randall finds that love and her career collide. Determined to succeed, she overcomes obstacles and learns in the end the importance of being true to oneself. Nicole's husband, Cliff, is the center of her life, her sense of all that is precious and steadfast. He's the Rock of Gibraltar. As the inevitability of the Persian Gul War looms, Nicole Bower Randall is haunted by the past. Having grown up in the shadows of the Vietnam War, Nicole once again anguishes over the issues of war. She is haunted by helpless feelings borne in the 60s when her brother went away and never came back. Her doubts have deepened from realizing her husband returned from his tour in Vietnam but never speaks about the war, and who can blame him. After all, there has been no honor in being a Vietnam Vet. Nicole, a feature writer for a magazine, is driven to face her fear that one day her only son may become a soldier. She decides to deal with the future by drawing from the past; the Vietnam War. She places a personal newspaper ad to invite Vietnam Vets to be interviewed. In her quest to write a story as a means of confronting her fears, Nicole encounters temptation, sexual harassment in her workplace, and personal tragedy. Surrender the Moment is a contemporary romance novel that draws from actual accounts of the Vietnam War.