22 parts Ongoing MatureIt starts with silence. A girl with steady hands and a heart she never shows. A boy with bruised knuckles, a sharp mouth, and too much weight on his shoulders.
Brooklyn, 1934.
She's sixteen, the daughter of a respected doctor.
He's seventeen, the older brother of her best friend, too cocky, too careful, too closed-off.
When tragedy strikes her family, she finds purpose in healing. When his home begins to fall apart, he learns to hide the bruises and carry on.
Over years of letters, near-misses, and impossible timing, they grow up side by side but never together. Not really. Not yet.
As war creeps across Europe, she trains as a battlefield nurse. He's drafted into the 107th. And in the wreckage of everything they once knew, their paths collide in a place where nothing is safe; not even the truth.
He writes like he's afraid to say it. She never says it at all. But it's there in every glance, every almost, every letter kept in a box marked 'someday.'
