Title: The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Author: Katherine Arden

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?

November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two men form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.

As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.

I was so happy to grab this, Bear and the Nightingale is one of my fave trilogies ever!

January 1918, Laura is back home in Canada and her brother, Freddie is still on the front, fighting. Their parents are both gone so all they have is each other. When Laura gets her brothers effects, she goes off to Belgium to find him as she feels in her bones that he isn’t gone.

Meanwhile Freddie comes to in a strange place with a companion, a German soldier called Winter….

You’ll need to read the rest but this is where our story begins….

I can tell you that the writing was beautiful, it made me feel all the emotions.

This story was also beautiful and it was dark and haunting, I could not stop reading it! Would totally recommend.