[Excerpt from Love in an Era Book 1 Copyright Colette Davis]

Suddenly he spoke, to me.“Ma’am, how did you come to the Hurtgen forest?” He was looking straight at me, blue eyes staring unflinchingly, waiting for my story. I could have been a spy, that would be the most plausible reason a woman would have been wandering the battlegrounds in an unforgiving rocky forest.

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So I drummed up a tale. I knew from research that most American women travelling with the US Army were nurses so that is where I went with my complete lie.“I am a nurse, sent to the front lines. Somehow I was taken from my detachment. The last thing I remember was running in the woods, and then getting shot.” I smiled, would he believe that? Also, what the hell was I supposed to do when he found out that my nursing skills were less than capable?  This was World War II, one of the bloodiest events in history, and here I was stuck, unprepared and scared. I had to get out of here. I heard my heartbeat in my ears. 

He smiled, and looked earnestly at me for a moment. “Well, madam, that is a strange story. I don’t think I have ever heard of a nurse, who is supposed to be stationed in a town suddenly end up on the front lines.” He didn’t say another word, but I was being baited. My heart beat so loudly in my ears that I could barely understand my own response.