Fate brought them together. War divided them for decades. Nothing can keep them apart. To save her runaway brother from an angry Crown, Charlotte Ashley disguises herself and takes his place as a runner in the Great War, never expecting to find her soulmate in the trenches of France: sullen sniper Alex Rook. Torn from him in battle, convinced her love has perished, Ashley spends the next twenty years haunted by the ghosts of what might have been. When the two are unexpectedly reunited, can their battle-scarred hearts overcome the deception of the past and fear of the future, or will the clouds of the next great war sever their connection once and for all in this sweeping tale of the pain and poetry of war, and connection that transcends time?