Publisher: Head of Zeus, March 3, 2022

Format: ebook

Pages: 400

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again?

It’s 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn’t come often to Devon.

Meanwhile, in America’s deep south, Sam Archer is hatching a plan to raise enough money to get his mother and sister away from his abusive stepfather. Using falsified documents to hide his age, he enlists with the U.S. Army.

Two chance encounters bring Ruby and Sam together from opposite sides of the Atlantic, giving them the chance of love, hope and freedom from their troubled lives. But fate, in the shape of D-Day and Omaha Beach, has other ideas.

When their very lives are at risk, will their promise to wait for one another be what keeps them alive?

My Review:

Thank you Head of Zeus for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: WW2 fiction
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Told from dual perspectives, we follow Ruby and Sam and their experiences with the Second World War. Ruby lives with her father in a small British town. She works for a newspaper and volunteers for the war effort, and her world changes when she meets Sam. Sam is an American soldier stationed at the training camp in her town. Sam joins the army in order to send money home in the the hopes of getting his mom and sister away from his abusive stepfather.
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I loved the romance in the book and how they had to navigate multiple different challenges to be together. Sam was a cutie and I loved him as the romantic interest.
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CW: war, death, torture, imprisonment, sexual harassment, unplanned pregnancy, domestic abuse.