With Every Breath

An End of WWII Novel

Army medic Dave O'Keanan returns from WWII expecting the weight of his experiences in battle to lift from his shoulders. But the atrocities didn't just take his innocence, they altered the life he thought he would return to. When he returns to Colorado, he's reunited with his family and Betty Claradon, the dear friend he left behind.

Betty is relieved to see Dave alive, even if the years have changed them both. While Dave went to war, she married the wrong man, and now, as a widow, she longs to forge a new life free from society's restraints and pursue her interests.

Their reunion is cut short when Dave falls ill with TB and is sent to a sanatorium. Betty also contracts TB and finds herself in the same facility. Separated by strict rules, they can only communicate through notes and guarded moments. Their friendship soon evolves into something neither of them can contain or even name as they acknowledge the traumas they faced during the war. As their isolation escalates, so does grief when they confront what it means to care for friends they grow close to in a place built for endings.

When survival is uncertain, will they still choose love?