He left to serve his country. He came back to nothing. Kaz Shaheen has spent years on the front lines, but nothing haunts him more than what he left behind. Not the war. Not the wounds. But Elara. The woman he loved, the wife he lost, and the son they buried. When tragedy struck, he wasn't there. When the blame came, he didn't fight it. And when she walked away, he let her. Now, deployed on a covert mission, Kaz is wounded and airlifted to a remote medical camp, never expecting the nurse who leans over him to be her. Elara Raelynne. The woman who once called him home. The woman who now won't even say his name. She still wears her pain like armour. He still wears his guilt like a second skin. And neither of them has truly healed. But in the middle of a war zone, with no walls left to hide behind, some ghosts finally demand to be faced.