Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student swept into World War I with dreams of surgical heroism. Instead, he’s dispatched to a freezing church-turned-field-hospital in the Carpathian Mountains, abandoned by doctors and overrun with disease. Only one figure remains: Sister Margarete, a mysterious nurse whose quiet resolve masks untold strength.
Lucius has never held a scalpel. Now he must learn the brutal art of battlefield medicine—or watch his patients die. As winter deepens and their fragile partnership grows into something more, one fateful decision involving an enigmatic soldier will alter their lives forever.
From imperial ballrooms to typhus wards and snowbound forests, The Winter Soldier is a haunting epic of love, war, and the fragile chance for redemption.
