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

As usual, the Wynnes had come through for Edmund in ways he could never hope to repay, that they deem to be nothing and no trouble at all. 


What must it be like to carry authority and power as simply as one carries one’s own body from one destination to another? To be so confident in one’s own abilities and position that grand gestures become quaint and small gestures become everything? 


Edmund doubts he’d ever fully understand. 


After the annoyance at the hospital almost a month prior, Edmund had more than proven himself to the board by not only being remarkably steady and confident with a scalpel, but by thoughtlessly employing some of Aures’ coined methods. 


Chapter 45: A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.