Nobody's Daughter

Lieutenant Josephine Dare was never meant to be a legend. Raised on Virginia farmland and trained at Harvard Medical School, she joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps long before America believed war would reach its shores. But on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor ignited in fire and chaos, Josephine became the surgeon who refused to run. Her courage amid burning hospitals and makeshift triage lines earned her a whispered title-the Angel of Ford Island.

But fame carries weight. Haunted by the screams she couldn't silence, Josephine is transferred to England in 1943 as the regimental surgeon of the 101st Airborne Division. There she meets the men of Easy Company-reckless, terrified paratroopers who hide fear behind humor-and finds purpose patching them back together.

England also brings someone she never expected to face again: a Dog Company lieutenant tied to her past by unfinished love. Their reunion cracks the armor she forged after Pearl Harbor, just as the division prepares for the airborne invasion of Normandy. Josephine must navigate not only the brutal battlefields of Europe but the emotional war within herself.

From the hedgerows of France to the frozen woods of Bastogne, her journey becomes one of resilience and sacrifice as she fights to keep her men alive-and decide whether she can let herself feel again.

Haunted yet unbroken, Josephine is eventually sent stateside to Camp Toccoa, Georgia, where a new airborne regiment is being forged. As the battalion's lone female physician, she tends to the raw recruits of Easy Company, becoming both healer and anchor amid the exhausting runs up Currahee and the relentless churn of injuries. Slowly, the men become her found family-her own band of brothers-even as she battles the memories that refuse to let her rest.