The Winter We Lost
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James Buchanan Barnes x Jillian Sage
Romance • Historical • Action • Second Chance • Super Soldier AU
"I'll come back to you."
"You'd better, Barnes."
Brooklyn, 1943. Jillian Sage never imagined the boy next door-the one who used to sneak her gum and kiss her behind the diner-would become a soldier, let alone a ghost.
When Bucky Barnes is drafted into the war, he promises he'll return. But neither of them could have foreseen the horrors that would follow. Abducted. Experimented on. Reborn as Hydra's perfect weapons.
Decades pass. Names change. Memories fade.
But some loves refuse to die.
Now in the present day, fate reunites them. Both altered. Both dangerous. Both haunted.
As pieces of their past start to return, Jillian and Bucky must face who they became... and fight for the chance to be who they were.
A story of war, survival, and the love that endures even when everything else is lost.
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