Red Cross Girls with the Italian Army

The Italian Front, 1917. Four American Red Cross volunteers have crossed an ocean to serve in a war that most of the world forgets when it remembers the Somme and Verdun. They arrive in the mountains where Austria-Hungary presses relentless against Italian lines, and they find a different war than they expected: one of brutal mountain battles, desperate supply shortages, and a beauty that exists alongside horror. These are women who refuse to simply wait out the war in safety. They drive ambulances, tend the wounded in field hospitals, and find themselves drawn into a world of intrigue where nothing and no one is quite what they seem. Romance blooms too, because war does not stop the heart's urgent need for connection. This is adventure fiction at its earnest, page-turning best: a story of courage, camaraderie, and the small acts of heroism that never make the history books. For readers who want their historical fiction to center women's active participation in world events, and who believe that adventure can coexist with heart.