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The Island Nurse's Secret: A WWII Historical Novel of Nazi-Occupied Jersey, Resistance, and Impossible Choices
Paperback
Series: The Silent Harbor Network
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every window has a blackout curtain. Not every secret can be covered so easily.
Jersey, 1943. Nurse Grace Penrose has survived three years of Nazi occupation by keeping her head down, her hands steady, and her questions to herself. She doesn't ask about the vanishing morphine. She doesn't ask about the locked sluice room. She doesn't ask about the German officer who writes down everything he sees. Then one night, a knock comes at the hospital's service entrance after curfew, and the woman on the other side needs far more from her than bandages.
What Grace finds hidden beneath St. Brigid's Hospital forces a choice no training prepared her for. Protect the wounded stranger in her care, or protect the network of ordinary islanders risking everything to move him to safety. Every ward round becomes a cover. Every silence becomes a lie she has to hold steady, even as her own brother's last traced escape route still hangs, half-erased, on her kitchen wall.
The Island Nurse's Secret is Book One in The Silent Harbor Network, a series of WWII historical fiction about the hidden rescue networks and quietly courageous women who carried hope through occupied Europe.
Perfect for readers of WWII historical fiction, hidden-history resistance stories, and novels about ordinary women who became extraordinary under occupation.
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