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In Memoriam by Alice WinnAbout Whispers of Ink and Starlight, from the publisher:
This is a brutal WWI historical fiction following the love story of two men in combat. Winn puts you right there in the trenches, describing all the horrors of war, not gratuitously, but with enough realism to give you nightmares. I don’t read a copious amount of historical fiction, but I fell in love with the main characters of this novel, Gaunt and Ellwood, and found myself fascinated by the real-world events they had to endure. Their story, spanning the years of war, is stained with loss, fear, and longing. Two men stuck in Hell-on-Earth and politically restricted from being in love. It is both a heartbreaking and hopeful novel, and I definitely recommend it, especially if...[read on]
A spellbinding tale of forbidden love and the power of words, where a girl must choose between the life written for her and the future she dares to imagine.Visit Garrett Curbow's website.
In a small Georgia town, Nelle’s life has been carefully scripted by her creator and captor, the reclusive author Wallace Quill. Born from ink andimagination, every breath she takes is dictated by his pen. But on a star-studded Fourth of July night, she meets James—a young man with dreams as vivid as the fireworks above them—and suddenly, the unwritten becomes possible.
As Nelle and James fall deeply in love, they embark on a breathtaking journey across Europe, each new experience a defiant stroke against the words that bind her. But freedom has a price. With every mile they travel, the ink in Nelle’s veins threatens to rewrite their story. In a world where every moment could be her last, Nelle and James must fight to write their own happily ever after—before the final page turns.
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