num_pages: 350
description: London 1944. Two young nurses meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to find her missing fianc Thomas and to prove to her familyand to herselfthat shes stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is in Ellies blood but her humble background is vastly different from Scarlets privileged upbringing. Though Ellie puts on a brave face shes just as nervous as Scarlet about what awaits them in France.In Normandy the two friends soon encounter the seemingly unflappable Lucy. Scarlet and Ellie are in awe of her courage and competence but the experienced nurse is well aware of the dangers of the job theyve chosenand even she is terrified they wont make it home alive.Pushed to their limits by the brutality of a world at war Scarlet Ellie and Lucy will need to rely on each otherand the power of their friendshipto survive.
language: English
title: Wives of War
publisher: Lake Union Publishing