Because of You

Welcome home — two words every soldier dreams of hearing, but for Sergeant Shane Garrison, the silence that greets him at Fort Hood cuts deeper than any IED blast. Unconscious and clinging to life, Shane wakes to a hospital where faces blur and hope feels distant. Alone in an empty hospital room, there's no one to pull him back from the abyss.

Nurse Jen St. James has tended countless wounded warriors, but when Shane’s storm-cloud eyes finally open, she sees the man beneath the uniform—fractured, fierce, and frighteningly alone. Haunted by her own scars, Jen pushes Shane past his pain, demanding he reclaim the life he fought for. When she catches Shane slipping away—mind, body, and soul—she refuses to let him go. 

As Jen’s steady touch begins to heal more than flesh, something unexpected ignites: a promise of hope neither dared to believe in and Shane must face his hardest battle yet.

Can love be the weapon that wins this war? Or will the battlefield’s ghosts claim Shane before he even gets a chance to fight for his heart?

All the Tropes

✔️Tortured Hero

✔️Sexy Nurse

✔️Grumpy Sunshine

✔️Wounded Warriors

✔️Scarred military heroes

✔️Army wives

✔️Found family

✔️Forced Proximity