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

“I thought I had loved before, but not so much and as deeply as I love you.”


The letter burns a hole in Edmund’s breast pocket, demanding to be taken out and read again and again, and again. Until Aidan’s beautiful words imprint themselves upon his heart and become one with him forever. 


The kiss had not been a simple gesture of kindness and gratitude. Edmund’s pining – his aching – has not been for naught.


Never has Edmund wanted to kiss – to touch, to consume – another person so badly. He wants to lose his fingers in that unruly, dark hair again; wrap an arm around that lithe waist and press their bodies together desperately as before; kiss Aidan this time until they’re both breathless and reeling and gasping for—


Chapter 25: Happiness...is entirely a matter of chance.