A Daring Compassion
To everyone around her, he is the enemy. Betsy isn't so certain.
As a physical therapy nurse during World War II, Betsy has learned that war leaves its scars in countless ways.
Every day she works with men learning to live without limbs, without sight, and sometimes without the futures they once imagined.
Then German prisoners of war arrive on her ward.
For Betsy, treating them is more complicated than anyone realizes.
Because Betsy is Jewish.
She keeps that truth carefully hidden from the prisoners in her care, even as members of her own family struggle to rebuild their lives after escaping Nazi persecution in Europe.
Compassion should be simple.
War has made it anything but.
Among the prisoners is Jan Paulus, a Polish-born soldier blinded by an explosion and now thousands of miles from everything he once called home.
Quiet, intelligent, and strangely unlike the other prisoners, Jan draws Betsy's attention almost immediately.
Something about him doesn't fit.
And Jan desperately needs to keep it that way.
When Betsy witnesses the murder of one of his fellow patients, the hospital suddenly becomes far more dangerous than either of them imagined.
Someone wants the death dismissed.
Jan knows it wasn't an accident.
And Betsy may have seen enough to make herself the next target.
As suspicion spreads through the hospital, Betsy finds an unexpected ally in Mac, a wounded American serviceman adjusting to the loss of an arm. Together they begin asking questions that powerful people would prefer remain unanswered.
Questions about the murdered patient.
Questions about the prisoners.
Questions about the people entrusted with their care.
And questions about Jan.
The closer Betsy comes to the truth, the more dangerous compassion becomes.
Because Jan Paulus is keeping secrets.
Secrets that could determine whether he spends the rest of the war behind barbed wire-or loses his life entirely.
And when Betsy's own carefully guarded identity is threatened, she discovers that the danger inside the hospital may be every bit as real as the war raging across the ocean.
Jan and Betsy are supposed to be enemies.
Instead, they may be each other's only hope of surviving.
But trust comes at a terrible price during wartime, and before either can imagine a future together, they must decide whether faith can overcome fear-and whether two people divided by uniforms, nations, secrets, and war can risk believing what their hearts already know.
Because sometimes compassion means tending the wounded.
Sometimes it means standing against evil.
And sometimes the bravest thing you can do is recognize the difference.
A Daring Compassion is Book Two of The Home Fires Trilogy, a faith-filled World War II historical romance of forbidden love, hidden identities, wartime conspiracy, courage, and the extraordinary people fighting battles far from the front lines.
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