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A Light in the Blackout - A Boy's Love WWII Resistance Romance set in Britain's Home Guard (1940)
Paperback
Series: Ciphered Hearts Chronicles, Book 6
General GLBTQIA FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Wmc Publishing
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Little Brambleford is doing its best to look prepared for invasion.
Schoolmaster Edmund Blake drills his Home Guard platoon with borrowed rifles, improvised pikes, and more determination than military polish. By day, the village clings to routine. By night, the blackout turns familiar lanes into a world of suspicion, silence, and hidden movement.
Then Edmund sees a signal flash from the church tower.
The man he finds nearby is Harold Hal Pierce, a newly arrived medical orderly and bicycle repairman whose calm skill, guarded answers, and precise habits make him impossible to dismiss. Hal insists there is an innocent explanation, but Edmund's instincts tell him the village is hiding something far more dangerous than gossip.
As strange movements, suspicious strangers, and wartime secrecy draw the two men together, Edmund and Hal must decide how far they are willing to trust each other. Official channels are slow to listen. Local loyalties are uncertain. And in 1940 Britain, a bond between two men carries risks that cannot be spoken aloud.
With invasion fears pressing close and the blackout hiding friend from enemy, Edmund and Hal must follow the faintest signals through darkness. But the closer they come to the truth, the harder it becomes to separate duty from desire, or courage from the dangerous hope of being known.
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