Pain. Audrey couldn't seem to focus on anything else. Images flickered through her mind, fragments of memories, and she struggled to catch the pieces. A ship sailing to France, a quiet inn, soldiers, an explosion, a moonlit cliff, a drawn knife, a shot in the darkand then pain. So much pain.

And then something else. Something greater.

"Please, my love, come back to me."

That voice.

It was as though she was trapped in a place between breaths, a world of ...