*Tearjerker -- LGBTQ -- Historical / WWI*
In Paris, at the end of World War I, also know as the Great War, everyone is a little broken. Some are more broken than others. Marguerite Bartelle, while making a delivery for her family's grocery, happens upon one of the most broken men she's ever seen. He's missing two limbs and is covered in burn-scars; he's full of anger and shies away from her love. But Marguerite sees past the soldier's disfigured exterior; she sees the heart within, and is determined to help him heal it.
It starts out as a young girl trying to make a friend, and soon becomes a race against time. The broken soldier is dying, and his only hope is to unburden himself to Marguerite, and heal his shattered heart. Will she heal it in time to save his life? Will the heartfelt efforts of a naive young lady be wasted on this disfigured brute? In an entire world ravaged by war, Marguerite wonders...
Can "happily ever after" still exist?
With war raging all around, some battles can't be won...
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The year was 1916, Elosie Keller was dwelling in a secluded Belgian cottage where she remained hidden away from the world until the day he fell from the sky...
Drawn to the carnage of a fallen plane, she finds more than rubble when she notices that the pilot is still alive. She knows without medical treatment that the man is fated to die. Acting in a haste, she pulls the man from his destined coffin in hopes to help him live.
Eloise soon finds herself tending a German patient in her hidden home and realizes he isn't the monster the world made him out to be; instead, she begins to see much more than an officer, but a man with a heart just trying to survive a war.
When she is finally discovered by the Germans, she is called upon to become a field nurse for the men on the western front--only to fall into a whirlwind of unfortunate events that she must learn how to survive.
Follow Eloise as she takes on the battle of being a wartime nurse in a man's world, fighting the one enemy that could never be conquered-love...
*This is a work of fiction. Any names, dates, or events are completely coincidental.
Thanks for reading.
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