From the best-selling, award-winning storyteller who brought you Sons of Thunder, another dramatic tale of love, redemption and freedom from the Brothers in Arms collection.
She’s trapped in a life she didn’t ask for.
The war is nearly over, but RN Esther Lange is numb to the hope of a future. Thanks to one passionate, ill-fated night, she is tied to a family who not only despises her, but harbors secrets and bitterness. Esther dreads the day of her fiancé’s return and the impending marriage that she knows will imprison her. Until tragedy strikes on the battlefield. A medic who attended her fiancé, Linus, in his last moments sends Esther his deathbed confession, and a forbidden correspondence begins. One that stirs long-banked desires inside her…
He’s a prisoner of war.
Army Medic Peter Hess never imagined that providence would send him back to the country he loves—America. And especially not as a German POW. His loyalty is to America, but circumstances landed him on the wrong side of history and now his only escape is through the letters he pens to the friend of a lost American soldier. An escape that is quickly turning to something more in his heart…
A terrible discovery…
The last thing Esther expects when she visits Peter—on a quest to uncover Linus’s secrets—is to discover that he’s been lying to her. He isn’t the patriot she read between the lines. And worse, she might have been a pawn in an escape plot that could jeopardize her livelihood, her daughter and especially her future. But what future does she want? Just what will she do to be set free?
…leads to an inescapable sacrifice
Peter is not who he seems. But what will it cost him to save Esther? Is there a happy ending waiting for a man with a healer’s heart?
