Read Online Blooms of War: An Evocative and Emotional WWI Love Story RTF
In war, she fell in love.Vera Betts shouldn’t be falling in love with the enigmatic doctor she suspects ofespionage. Reeling from her family’s betrayal, she’s faked her nursing credentials, invented anew name, and run away to the frontlines of the French battlefield. Four years into the Great Warand she knows who she is and what she’s meant for—to save the living and sit vigil by the dying.When the cagey-yet-earnest Dr. Nicholas Wallace arrives, so do mysterious explosionsdestroying hospitals. Even as Nick raises her suspicions, he lowers her defenses. He wants thewar to end. Are his acts of sabotage politically motivated or a desperate attempt at peace?In peace, she fell apart.A year later, Vera is back with her oppressive family, living under her real name, and Nick is ontrial for murder. Trapped in grief and guilt, she cannot speak about the past and does not believein the future. With Nick refusing to defend himself, she ventures to London to understand whyhe is so willing to embrace the hangman’s noose. Who is he trying to protect? What secrets doeshe plan to carry to his grave? And why does Nick insist upon hiding her true identity? To savethe man she loves, Vera must tear open the past and confront the tragic price for peace.
