Until he crashlands on the Wynne Farm near St Anne, Alderney, Edmund Bolton will have insisted the most prudent thing about himself is his medical degree and his willingness to fight fascists. But of course it’s that island, and that farm – and that family.

Aidan Wynne is tortured by the shame of others and tormented by a freedom he feels he can never possess. Until the handsome military doctor with far too much understanding and far too little self-preservation comes to turn his life on its head.

The war makes fighters of all affected, but none so much as the lovers and those who must love quietly. Often, the fray has less to do with weaponry and bloodshed, and everything to do with keeping tame a passion that seeks to send the world up in flames without burning oneself up in the process.

”Once more into the fray,
into the last good fight I’ll ever know.
Live and die on this day,
live and die on this day.”

Fray is created by Li Walt, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

FRay

For the first few days, the thought had carried Edmund through. The knowledge that everyone he loved on this godforsaken island is off it had not only comforted him, but numbed him through his care of innumerable broken bodies.


He’d also finally gotten back in contact with his family and wept along with his mother when she’d heard his voice. Albeit for completely different reasons.


Because, if he’s honest with himself, it hasn’t just been the certainty of his friends’ safety that has tided him over – but the fact that Aidan hasn’t really ever been a friend. 


From the moment Edmund had laid eyes on him all those months ago, the utter fascination he’d felt is now evident to him as infatuation. Aidan isn’t some austere beauty – Edmund treasures that loveliness in his heart. The love and fierce protection he feels for Aures are worlds removed from the desire that had sung in his veins when he’d seen Aidan in his finery at the party.


Chapter 23: The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.