War, combat and military adventure fiction
Penguin Putnam Inc The Human Body
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Heaven and Earth, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the wars we wage within ourselves. It is a novel that reminds us of what it means to be human.A platoon of young men and a single woman leave Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth. At their forward operating base in Afghanistan—an exposed sandpit scorched by inescapable sunlight and mortar fire—this band of inexperienced soldiers navigates the irreversible journey from youth to adulthood. But when a much-debated mission goes devastatingly awry, their lives are changed in an instant. And on their return home, they will confront the most difficult challenge of all: to create a life worth living.
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc The Good Shepherd
Book SynopsisNow a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of high and glittering excitement (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower seriesThe mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th
£14.45
Penguin Putnam Inc Wolves of Winter
£14.82
Penguin Putnam Inc Resurrecting Home
Book SynopsisBOOK 5 OF THE SURVIVALIST SERIESAgainst all odds, Morgan Carter and his family have endured despite the deteriorating conditions surrounding them. Armed with survivalist tactics, Morgan''s crew, alongside their new friends from the recently-liberated DHS camp, have worked together to build a sustainable communuity. But not all situations can be prepared for. When a massive wildfire threatens their very existence, they must decide: fight or flight?From the author of the hit Survivalist Series books, Resurrecting Home is an action-packed adventure that depicts the harrowing possibilities of a world gone awry, and the courage it takes to protect what matters most.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Tobys Room 2 Life Class Trilogy
Book SynopsisA masterfully written World War I-era novel about the secrets between a brother and sister, from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy. It is 1917, and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. Then she finds a letter hidden among his belongings; it reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his friend, medic Kit Neville, knows why. But Kit has been horribly disfigured and is reeling from shell shock. While Elinor tries to piece together the mystery of what happened to her brother, she uses her drawing skills to aid in the surgical reconstruction of those who have suffered unspeakable losses—of their faces, their memories, their very minds.
£13.56
Random House USA Inc Home
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£19.20
Random House USA Inc The Risen
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£15.26
Random House USA Inc Remember Ben Clayton
Book SynopsisWinner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best American Historical Fiction Francis Gil Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad fortune and pride have driven him and his long-suffering daughter Maureen into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. When an aging rancher commissions Gil to create a memorial statue of his son who was killed in action, Gil believes it will be his greatest achievement. But as work proceeds on the statue, Gil and Maureen come to realize that their new client is a far more complicated man than they ever expected, and that he is guarding a secret that haunts his relationship with his son even in death.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc The Flight Portfolio
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.
£15.26
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Eleven Days
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£14.36
St Martin's Press Tree of Smoke
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNEROne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearThe God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson''s. Jonathan Franzen Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . .Tree of Smoke is the story of William Skip Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is bound to become one of the classic w
£20.70
Orbit The Two of Swords Volume Two
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£14.39
Little, Brown & Company Unconditional Surrender
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£23.99
Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books Mischling
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£999.99
Back Bay Books Now and Again
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£14.39
Little Brown and Company The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
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£21.60
Orbit The Cuckoo
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£999.99
Mulholland Books Deception Cove
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£15.29
Little Brown and Company Countdown
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£23.20
Little Brown and Company Countdown
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£24.80
Orbit The Fires of Vengeance
Book Synopsis In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in the second book of this 'relentlessly gripping, brilliant' epic fantasy series from a breakout author (James Islington).Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi.If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne, and if she can reunite her people then the Omehi have a chance to survive the onslaught.The BurningThe Rage of DragonsThe Fires of Vengeance
£18.99
Orbit A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
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£16.99
Orbit The Wolf
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£17.09
Orbit The Spider
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Orbit We Cry for Blood
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£16.19
Back Bay Books A Shout in the Ruins
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£14.44
Mulholland Books The Defector
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£26.10
Random House USA Inc The Guns of the South
Book Synopsis'It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.'Professor James M. McPhersonPultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMJanuary 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47....Selected by the Science Fiction Book ClubA Main Selection of the Military Book Club
£9.24
Random House USA Inc The Last Full Measure
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£15.10
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Gone for Soldiers a Novel of the Mexican War
Book SynopsisWith his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.In March 1847, the U.S. Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. At his right hand is Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat.Scott leads his troops
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Random House USA Inc Demontech Gulf Run 03
Book SynopsisOnly a miracle can save them now. Luckily, they have one: the Marines. Like an invincible tidal wave of evil, the Dark Prince’s conquering armies roar across the land, leaving death and destruction in their wake. So far Marines Haft and Spinner have managed to stay one step ahead of the invaders, picking up hundreds of refugees and soldiers as they struggle to reach their salvation at the edge of the sea. Against all odds, they’ve even managed to inflict some damage on the vastly superior forces. Yet for every enemy soldier killed, ten more appear in his place, and the Dark Prince’s demon magic ensures their weapons are brutally effective. The outlook is not promising for the ragged band of rebels, pursued by bloodthirsty troops, hounded by bandits, and forced across a desert where death awaits all trespassers. As the noose tightens and the Dark Prince prepares the final coup de grace, it may look like Haft and Spinner
£8.25
Random House USA Inc The Fateful Lightning
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant’s successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman now directs the Federal forces that occupy all of Tennessee. In a massive surge southward, Sherman conquers the city of Atlanta, sweeping aside the Confederate army under the inept leadership of General John Bell Hood. Pushing through northern Georgia, Sherman’s legendary March to the Sea shoves away any Rebel presence, and by Christmas 1864 the city of Savannah falls into the hands of “Uncle Billy.” Now
£22.50
Random House USA Inc Season of the Rainbirds
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Maps for Lost Lovers, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Aslam’s exquisite first novel, the powerful story of a secluded Pakistani village after the murder of its corrupt and prominent judge. Judge Anwar’s murder sets the people of the village on edge. Their anxieties are compounded when a sack of letters, thought lost in a train crash nineteen years ago, suddenly reappears under mysterious circumstances. What secrets will these letters bring to light? Could the letters shed any light on Judge Anwar’s murder? As Aslam traces the murder investigation over the next eleven days, he explores the impact that these two events have on the town’s inhabitants—from Judge Anwar’s surviving family to the journalist reporting on the delivery of the mail packet. With masterful attention to detail and beautiful scenes that set the rhythms of daily life in Pakistan, Aslam creates a lush and timeless world—played out against an ominous backdrop of religious tensions, assassinations, changing regimes, and faraway civil wars.
£13.46
Random House USA Inc There Your Heart Lies
Book SynopsisAt nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Marian’s secret history—of personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s generation, of the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship—compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. Moving and deeply felt, There Your Heart Lies explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history—and passed down through generations.
£12.41
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Back to the Dirt
Book SynopsisFrank Bill is back with a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of a broken American heartland.Miles is a Vietnam veteran who's worried he's going to lose his joband with it his tenuous grasp on a stable lifeover a fight with a coworker. His PTSD and struggles to control his steroid-fueled violent tendencies also complicate his relationship with his girlfriend, Shelby, a stripper who only occasionally displays the proverbial heart of gold. She's certainly kinder and more generous than her brother, Wylie, who has been implicated in the deaths of two local Oxy dealers and is currently on the run. When Wylie kidnaps Shelby and holes up in Miles's country lair, it all threatens to become a bit too much for Miles.As Frank Bill peels back the layers of Miles's history, going deep into his memories of the Vietnam War, Back to the Dirt gets to the root of the traumas that have caused Miles and his community so much adversity. In this blistering n
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Seals Eagle Force Desert Thunder
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£6.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Voyage Home
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£999.99
WW Norton & Co The Sage of Waterloo
Book SynopsisMagical, beguiling and distinctive: the story of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), as told by a rabbit.Trade Review"Gentle and poetic, [The Sage of Waterloo] is an eloquent reflection on the nature and cost of war...Everything in this little book is perfect." -- David Kaymer - Library Journal (starred review) "Engaging, pleasantly written, and endlessly inventive: all promising signs and a reader's delight." -- Kirkus Reviews "Written by a concert pianist who abides in Europe, about the Battle of Waterloo seen through the eyes of an erudite bunny...The Sage of Waterloo [is] dignified and poignant, as well as sad, with a gentle humor befitting gentle lagomorphs." -- Lydia Millet - BookPage
£17.09
WW Norton & Co We Come to Our Senses Stories
Book SynopsisFor readers of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South.Trade Review"This is almost a novel in stories, thematically linked like Phil Klay’s Redeployment, but more particular in its examination of the new American veteran." -- New York Times Book Review"Lindsey writes with quiet confidence and sometimes arch humor that invites comparison to Ben Fountain and Phil Klay but that wouldn't displease Flannery O'Connor. Superb atmospherics coupled with arresting story lines." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Lindsey’s debut artfully portrays the American South....Lindsey’s lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters." -- Booklist (starred review)"I read Odie Lindsey’s We Come to Our Senses in a way that books rarely compel me to…Not only compulsively readable, the thoughts these war stories stirred were rich and complex and heartening in their universal humanity. This is a remarkable collection by a splendid new writer." -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"Brutal, precise, like a bullet to the heart, Lindsey's prose is exactly right for conveying what war does to the human soul. Whether comic or tragic, the characters in these stories feel so vibratingly alive they seem to be whispering directly into your ear." -- Helen Benedict, author of Sand Queen and The Lonely Soldier"The writing here is nuanced, correct, and felt enough that, for once, ‘Support Our Troops’ is not political pablum. One might say that in Odie Lindsey's care ‘Support Our Troops’ is a literary imperative." -- Padgett Powell, author of Cries for Help, Various"The debut we hope for: heart-quickening, kinetic, relentless in its engagement with our time." -- Paul Yoon"With a searing insightfulness and a dark humor all his own, Odie Lindsey holds up a powerful lens to an experience of modern American warfare that has been largely ignored in fiction—that of female veterans. This is collection about how the battles we wage with the external world are really only half the fight." -- Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award Finalist and author of Once Upon a River"[A] gritty and ambitious debut collection…Odie Lindsey is an innovative and consummate prose stylist." -- Mary Miller, author of The Last Days of California"Here's an exciting, even thrilling new voice I'm delighted to read, to hear in my head. He's got all the notes, he's all in. Odie Lindsey's a terrific writer—pitch-perfect, entirely under control at high speed—who doesn't hold anything back." -- Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Primes of Their Lives
£999.99
WW Norton & Co We Come to Our Senses
Book SynopsisA Military Times Best Book of 2016 An Electric Literature Best Short Story Collection of 2016 "Almost a novel in stories, thematically linked like Phil Klay's Redeployment, but more particular in its examination of the new American veteran." —New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"[We Come to Our Senses is] far more than just a book about war…What sparks and makes every page come alive is the depth and sincerity of feeling in [Lindsey’s] prose." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"Lindsey writes with quiet confidence and sometimes arch humor that invites comparison to Ben Fountain and Phil Klay but that wouldn’t displease Flannery O’Connor. Superb atmospherics coupled with arresting story lines." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Lindsey’s debut artfully portrays the American South…Lindsey’s lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters." -- Booklist (starred review)"I read Odie Lindsey’s We Come to Our Senses in a way that books rarely compel me to…Not only compulsively readable, the thoughts these war stories stirred were rich and complex and heartening in their universal humanity. This is a remarkable collection by a splendid new writer." -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"Brutal, precise, like a bullet to the heart, Lindsey’s prose is exactly right for conveying what war does to the human soul. Whether comic or tragic, the characters in these stories feel so vibratingly alive they seem to be whispering directly into your ear." -- Helen Benedict, author of Sand Queen and The Lonely Soldier"The writing here is nuanced, correct, and felt enough that, for once, ‘Support Our Troops’ is not political pablum. One might say that in Odie Lindsey’s care, ‘Support Our Troops’ is a literary imperative." -- Padgett Powell, author of Cries for Help, Various"The debut we hope for: heart-quickening, kinetic, relentless in its engagement with our time." -- Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters"With a searing insightfulness and a dark humor all his own, Odie Lindsey holds up a powerful lens to an experience of modern American warfare that has been largely ignored in fiction—that of female veterans. This is a collection about how the battles we wage with the external world are really only half the fight." -- Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award finalist and author of Once Upon a River"[A] gritty and ambitious debut collection…Odie Lindsey is an innovative and consummate prose stylist." -- Mary Miller, author of Biloxi"Here’s an exciting, even thrilling new voice I’m delighted to read, to hear in my head. He’s got all the notes, he’s all in. Odie Lindsey’s a terrific writer—pitch-perfect, entirely under control at high speed—who doesn’t hold anything back." -- Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Dogs at the Perimeter
Book SynopsisThe second novel by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Madeleine Thien is "beautiful, deeply moving, [and] addresses universal questions" (Independent).Trade Review"The strife in Indo-China has inspired some astonishing writing in recent decades…Dogs at the Perimeter belongs with the best of such works. But it also tells a more universal story about being borne back into the past—and the inescapability of history." -- Economist"Fiction like this, clear-eyed and truthful, can give a shape to the chaos of history…The quiet elegance of Thien’s writing makes a brutal story powerful and moving." -- The Times (London)"Utterly convincing in how it weighs the psychological damage inflicted by a regime that demands denial of family, friends and self as a condition of survival." -- Financial Times"The beauty of Madeleine Thien’s prose doesn’t reside only in its clarity and elegance. She’s a surveyor of damaged lives, and her characters no longer possess the requisite layers of skin to protect them from what they have endured, and what they remember. Thien, a deeply empathetic writer, enfolds her wounded creations in morally precise language, offering the consolation of, in effect, storytelling." -- Charles Foran - Globe and Mail"[Dogs at the Perimeter] captures the random terror and chaos of Year Zero and presents a credible portrait of Phnom Penh…Thien’s observations of the ravaged country maintain a fine balance between lyricism and horror." -- Alfred Hickling - Guardian
£12.34
Penguin Putnam Inc Light It Up 3 Peter Ash Novel
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Penguin Putnam Inc The War Within
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£26.60
Penguin Putnam Inc The Killing God
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£29.75
Penguin Putnam Inc Against All Enemies
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£9.49
Penguin Publishing Group The Vastalimi Gambit
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£7.59
Penguin Putnam Inc Leviathan 5 Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier
Book SynopsisAdmiral John “Black Jack” Geary embarks on a brand-new mission—to defend the Alliance from itself—in New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell’s latest action-packed novel…Two Syndicate Worlds star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships—a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence—that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Admiral John “Black Jack” Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the AI warships—and its role in their creation—Geary pursues them, treading a fine line between mutiny and obedience. But it soon becomes clear that his fleet is no match for the firepower of the machine-piloted armada. With the help o
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Penguin Putnam Inc Return to Me 1 Covington Cove Novel
Book SynopsisA Covington Cove Novel—First in a new contemporary romance series from an award-winning author featuring two characters you'll never forget. (Carly Phillips, New York Times bestselling author)With every beat of the heart comes a memory of what could have been… Ten years ago, Cole Covington was just another rich kid who got everything he wanted—including young and trusting Mia Galdon. Then one night everything changed, and two hearts were shattered. Cole buried his guilt in the military, where love was just part of the past. Now Cole has come back home, emotionally damaged, guarded, and unprepared for what’s waiting for him…At the urging of Cole’s sister, Mia has returned to the Covington family’s coastal home in Wilmington as a private nurse to help Cole recover. With her uncertain personal life at a crossroad, Mia doesn’t have the luxury of saying no to the job. And she soon finds out that the
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