The Warm Hands of Ghosts

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó During the Great War,a combat nurse searches for her brotherbelieved dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwisein this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twistfrom the author of The Bear and the Nightingale. ΓÇ£A wonderful clash of fire and iceΓÇöa book you wonΓÇÖt want to let go of.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöDiana Gabaldonauthor of Outlander ΓÇ£SpectacularΓÇöa tour de forcewonderful and deep and haunting.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNaomi Novikauthor of A Deadly Education January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corpsleaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in HalifaxCanadaLaura receives word of FreddieΓÇÖs death in combatalong with his personal effectsΓÇöbut something doesnΓÇÖt make sense. Determined to uncover the truthLaura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospitalwhere she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefieldonly to fall prey to somethingΓÇöor someoneΓÇöelse? November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldiera German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all oddsthe two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fieldsespecially on opposite sidesthey take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear. As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet livingLauraΓÇÖs and FreddieΓÇÖs deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvagingΓÇöor better left behind entirely.