Wendy Fehr Boeken

The war is over, but Henry's battle has just begun. When Henry is wounded on the battlefield at Amiens, he returns to the stationary hospital where he once again encounters Abbigail, the Bluebird nurse who has been his guiding light through the savagery of war. As Henry comes to terms with the physical toll exacted on him by the war, he struggles with the thought of returning home as a burden on his family. While Abbigail helps Henry recover in hospital, she finds herself facing an impossible choice: break her promise to her father and lose the family farm by remaining with Henry, or fulfill her promise to her father and return to marry John. On their journey back to Canada together, Abbigail wages her own personal battle with the decision before her as Henry agonizes over his conviction that he can never subject Abbigail to a life of caring for him. Following a reluctant farewell, Abbigail and Henry return to their respective lives in Canada only to be caught up in the Spanish Influenza pandemic that sweeps the world at the close of the war. As the first wave of the pandemic mounts, Henry rushes to see to Abbigail's safety. There, he will face the most difficult battle of his life. Can Henry become the man Abbigail needs him to be-even if it means he must help her keep her promise to marry another man?

When you meet yourself on the battlefield who is it that survives? The only reason Henry Ryzak went to war in the mud and cold of France was to protect his older brother Will and escape his father's ire. With some patented Henry Ryzak sleight of hand, Henry sends Will home, safe from the bullets, shelling, and freezing rain of the trenches. Having recovered from his injuries, Henry returns to the front where he comes face to face with his true enemy in the war: himself. Henry's only guiding light through the horrors of the war is his memory of Abbigail, the Bluebird who tended to his injuries and whose light illuminated truths Henry had long denied. With no prospect of a relationship with Abbigail, Henry resumes his reckless tendencies on the battlefield. Torn between his hopeless disregard for himself and a responsibility to his unit, Henry embarks on the most hazardous of all campaigns: confronting his failings to become a man worthy of his comrades' respect - and the man Abbigail inspired him to be. With his own life and the fate of his unit in the balance, will all of Henry's bad decisions overtake him on the battlefield of the Great War? A gripping continuation of The Light Attendant series, Part II follows one soldier's journey through the turmoil of World War I as he fights an enemy both on and off the battlefield. Part 2 of a three-part series.