Hermann Klein never wanted to build weapons. Yet the war pulls him into a design that promises to break the stalemate. When he sees its first deployment, he’s forced to face a truth no engineer can escape.

In a small Paris candy shop, a young boy learns the craft from his grandfather by morning and plays with friends by afternoon. When war breaks out, he has an idea that will resonate with the neighborhood and with soldiers for years to come.

In the quiet valleys of Austria-Hungary, farmer Lukas Andros lives a simple life bound to his land and his loyal horse, Kronos. But when the world descends into war, both man and beast are drawn far from the fields they once knew.

When the Ottoman authorities seize her husband’s warehouses, Ani senses the world shifting beneath her feet.
What follows is a journey through fear and uncertainty, as she and her children travel into the darkness with nowhere left to call home.

Wilhelm von Breidenbach left the comfort of his family’s estate to seek glory on the Western Front. Four months later, he returned home disfigured, no longer the man who had left.
But some wounds cut deeper than shrapnel ever could.

Before the first shells fell on Ypres, seventeen-year-old Elodie Durnez watched the sunrise from her family’s parlor window, unaware of how quickly her world would change. When war reached her doorstep, she and her family fled across Belgium in search of safety, leaving behind everything they knew. Years later, as peace finally returns to Europe, Elodie must face what remains of the place she once called home.

A story of loss, endurance, and the quiet strength that carries us through even the darkest of times.

In the small Australian town of Wattleford, schoolteacher Eleanor Whitmore longs for word from her two sons fighting overseas. When she meets a wounded soldier by the creek, she learns the simple things that soldiers crave most, dry socks, a warm meal, and a letter from home. Inspired, Eleanor begins a campaign to send care packages to the front, only to face resistance from townsfolk who see her kindness as loyalty to the Crown.

But compassion, like the creek that runs through Wattleford, finds its own path. If the Water Can Find a Way is a story of quiet courage, community, and the strength to do what’s right, no matter how small the gesture may seem.

When Manuel returns home from the battlefields of France, his young wife Inês greets him with tears and relief. But the shadow of the Church looms large over their reunion, and the choices made in his absence cannot be easily undone. Love, faith, and survival collide in a story of exile, sacrifice, and the search for forgiveness.

Exiled to South Africa for his violent temper, Corporal Giles Bexley longs for the trenches of Europe. But when arrogance and cruelty follow him from Johannesburg’s gold mines to the frozen lines of Belgium, he discovers that not every enemy wears a German uniform. The Wrong Front is the story of a soldier whose hatred leads him to the place he thought he wanted most, and to an end he never saw coming.

In 1915, as the Great War reaches across the ocean, a Tsilhqot’in family in western Canada is pulled into its shadow. Tatl’ah learns that his eldest son has enlisted to fight for the very empire that once took their land, a decision that reopens old wounds for his father, Nak’azdli, who still remembers the uprising of his youth. Caught between two generations with different visions of loyalty, Tatl’ah struggles to keep his family together while the river that sustained their people bears witness to what is lost—and what may yet be lost again.