When This Cruel War Is Over (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
THE WORD ECHOED AND re-echoed in Janet Todd’s head. He was a soldier who lived on risk. He admired other people who lived the same way. Her tongue moved slowly across her bruised lips. He loved her—he had almost confessed it out there in the darkness beneath the cottonwoods. He had been on the brink of saying the words and she had been ready to reveal—or at least imply—what she was prepared to do if he undertook for her sake a risk considerably greater than the battlefields of Virginia or Georgia. To her chagrin they had been drawn back to the dance floor by cries and shouts to find Dr. Yancey kneeling beside Rogers Jameson, diagnosing a badly broken jaw. Major Stapleton had been forced to respond to the outrage among the guests by arresting Sergeant Washington and confining him in the Keyport jail. Downstairs, a clock chimed 2:00 A.M. A desultory breeze rustled the leaves of the cottonwood trees outside her window. It did nothing to stir the hot thick air in Janet’s bedroom.
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