"someone asked me
to describe home
and i started talking about your hair color
and the sound of your voice
and the taste of your lips
and how your skin feels like
until i realized
they had expected to hear a place"
--Daria M
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.” --Emery Allen
In the wake of the Great War, disgraced and having lost everything he held dear, former RFC pilot Captain Daniel Morrow clings precariously to life. At last understanding how far into the darkness he’s fallen, he admits himself to Yarrow Hill War Hospital. If he can be saved at all, if he’s worth saving, the shell shock ward is his only chance.
Celia Fabre didn’t come through the war unscathed – not that she would admit it, even to herself. Her life as a nurse began with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, stationed near the front lines and steeped in blood. By the time she made it home, she knew she was meant for medicine. With a job that she loves in spite of a rather unfit head nurse, and a fiancé who doesn’t seem to be all she once thought, she finds herself faced with decisions she never intended to have to make.
A new patient is assigned the empty bed in Celia’s section of the east ward, and she can’t help gravitating to him. In one another, she and Captain Morrow find a surprising friend and a kindred spirit. And that’s all. That’s all either can afford to allow…
Okay, here we go. IT’S LIVE! FINALLY! AHHHHHHHH?
A Place in the Line
I started this story in 2014, estimating that it would take me around 30 chapters to finish. It took a solid three years, 150 chapters, and over 500k words to get to the end of it. *stares into the void*
I meant to publish it as one volume. Turns out Amazon has an 800 page restriction. (Which, y’know, can’t blame them. Paperbacks get unwieldy and fragile if they’re too big.) But that meant I had to split it in half. Each book turned out approximately 700 pages (Part 1 is a tad over, part 2 is a tad under, because I halved it in a place that was closest to the center that still felt okay being divided).
There were a few chapters that I originally split because I was on a schedule of a chapter/week, so the finished editing made 140 chapters. Please keep in mind that this is de-fandomed and edited for a wider audience. That means name changes and blurred sex scenes. I also removed the, um, “private” self-enjoyment scenes that the main characters had in the original. *cough* The sex scenes are now more along the lines of spicy romance novel instead of downright erotica.
But there are also some little additions here and there. I can’t remember what/where they are, because my brain is mush from editing almost every waking hour for the last… I don’t remember how many months at this point. But yeah.
Paperbacks are $24.15 and ebooks are $9.99 (priced so that I can get about $5 per copy either way). If you get ebooks via Kindle Unlimited, please remember to at least flip through all the way through to the end so I get the fraction of a cent per page they allow me through that? And please consider leaving a great review!
I made these for a lovely friend who needed them for a little cheering up and now, i’m sharing with all of you, so this goober can make you smile if you’re not having a great day. i luffs him your honour.
I want there to be 500 years, from the current Exandrian time, to be a Ghost Files equivalent. And Ryan and Shane are investigating the mysterious talking skeletons.
