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What Remains: The Winter Ward
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Silent Stead Press
Published: Jun 6 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
August 1945. The war is ending-but at Rhoads General Hospital, its survivors are still arriving.
Army nurse Evelyn Evie Lawson knows how to keep her hands steady, conceal her grief, and help a wounded man endure another hour. Caring for others has given her life structure and purpose. It has also allowed her to avoid confronting the loss that brought her to Ward C.
At Rhoads, victory does not feel like an ending. The men filling its wards must learn to walk, sleep, laugh, and imagine futures inside bodies and memories changed by war. The nurses beside them carry losses of their own, knowing that steady hands and compassionate words cannot repair everything.
As Evie grows close to two wounded sergeants, the boundaries she has carefully maintained begin to blur. Compassion deepens into attachment, and duty becomes harder to separate from desire. Yet neither love nor loyalty can return any of them to who they were before the war.
In the uncertain space between surrender and homecoming, the patients and nurses of Ward C form an unlikely family. Bad coffee, gallows humor, sleepless nights, and shared grief bind them together as they confront what comes after survival, and whether healing means becoming whole or simply finding a way forward.
Tender, bittersweet, and deeply human, What Remains: The Winter Ward is a character-driven World War II historical novel about Army nurses, wounded soldiers, survivor's guilt, and found family-a moving story of grief, resilience, and the difficult work of learning to live after surviving.
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