num_pages: 400
description: Though the Great War is nearing its end the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of Barbados. Later when hes brought into her forward aid station disoriented from a head wound Bess is alarmed that he believes his distant English cousin Lieutenant James Travis shot him. Then the Captain is brought back to the aid station with a more severe wound once more angrily denouncing the Lieutenant as a killer. But when it appears that James Travis couldnt have shot him the Captains sanity is questioned. Still Bess wonders how such an experienced officer could be so wrong.On leave in England Bess finds the Captain strapped to his bed in a clinic for brain injuries. Horrified by his condition Bess and Sergeant Major Simon Brandon travel to James Traviss home in Suffolk to learn more about the baffling relationship between these two cousins.Her search will lead this smart capable and compassionate young woman into unexpected danger and bring her face to face with the visible and invisible wounds of war that not even the much-longed for peace can heal.
language: English
title: A Casualty of War
publisher: William Morrow/HarperCollins