num_pages: 57
description: A short story about an impossible connection across two centuries that could make the difference between peace or war.Yorkshire 1943. Lily Baines a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. Its her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption.One night she picks up a transmission that isnt code at allits a cry for help.An American ship is taking heavy fire in the North Atlanticbut no one else has reported an attack and the information relayed by the young US officer Matt Jackson seems all wrong. The contact that Lily has made on the other end of the radio channel says its 2023.Across an eighty-year gap Lily and Matt must find a way to help each other: Matt to convince her that the war shes fighting can still be won and Lily to help him stave off the war to come. As their connection grows stronger they both know theres no telling when time will run out on their inexplicable link.
language: English
title: Signal Moon
publisher: Amazon Original Stories