Forever Never Was
France, 1944. In a world at war, love was never supposed to last.
When U.S. Army paratrooper Lieutenant Warren Grant jumps into the darkness over Normandy, he expects to land alongside his men and join the fight to liberate France. Instead, his plane is blown off course, leaving him badly injured and stranded behind enemy lines.
His survival depends on the courage of a stranger.
Nicolette is a French farmer's daughter who has spent years living beneath the shadow of Nazi occupation. Hiding a wounded American soldier could cost her family everything, but when she discovers Warren, leaving him to die is not an option. She and her father conceal him in their barn, and Nicolette begins nursing the stubborn American back to health.
Neither expects what happens next.
Warren is determined to return to his men. Nicolette is equally determined to continue the dangerous work she has undertaken with the French Resistance. He wants to protect her from a war already demanding too much of her. She refuses to allow him-or anyone else-to decide which battles she is willing to fight.
Their attraction is immediate. And with every stolen touch, whispered confession, and passionate kiss, the impossible becomes undeniable.
They are falling in love.
But beyond the safety of Nicolette's farmhouse, the war is closing in.
A childhood acquaintance turned Nazi sympathizer has become dangerously obsessed with Nicolette, and his allegiance to the Germans gives him the power to destroy everyone she loves. Meanwhile, Warren must reunite with the scattered American paratroopers gathering near the small village of Graignes.
With no guarantee they will survive what is coming, Warren and Nicolette refuse to wait for a future that may never arrive. In the midst of war, they secretly marry and promise one another the one thing neither can be certain they have:
Forever.
Then the Germans descend upon Graignes.
As the village burns and soldiers and civilians pay a devastating price for helping the Americans, Nicolette realizes that saving Warren may require the ultimate sacrifice. She makes a desperate choice and sends away the man she loves, believing his life matters more than the future they promised each other.
But Warren has no intention of leaving his wife behind.
He turns back for Nicolette, willing to cross enemy lines and risk everything to find her.
Only he may already be too late.
Set against the courage and tragedy surrounding the Battle of Graignes in the aftermath of D-Day, Forever Never Was is a sweeping WWII historical romance about passion, resistance, sacrifice, and two people who discover that sometimes loving someone means risking everything-and sometimes it means letting them go.
Perfect for readers who love wartime romance, forbidden love, courageous heroines, protective heroes, the French Resistance, emotional historical fiction, and love stories forged under impossible circumstances.
War demanded everything. Love demanded more.
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