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From the killing fields of the Battle of the Bulge, Wendell Smith brought home to small-town Texas horrible memories of the battlefield, emotional trauma, and a secret. It was the one thing about the war he could not share with the love of his life, his wife, Selma.
Late in life, when Wendell thought his secret was safe, a chance meeting with a troubled young woman named Claire brought forth the worst of Wendell's war. It turned out that Claire had a secret of her own. Theirs would become an unusual friendship of haunted survivors. But would their bond heal them, or destroy them both?
