Broken Blades

They only had one night together a stolen interlude at the 1936 Olympics. After Mark Driscoll challenged Armin Truchsess von Kardenberg to a good-natured fencing match, there was no resisting each other. Though from different worlds an Iowa farm boy and a German aristocrat they were immediately drawn together, and it was an encounter neither has ever forgotten. Now it s 1944, and a plane crash in hostile territory throws them back together, but on opposite sides of a seemingly endless war. Facing each other as opponents is one thing. As enemies, another thing entirely. And to make matters worse, Mark is a POW, held in a cold, remote castle in Germany in a camp run by Armin. They aren t the young athletes they were back then. The war has taken wives, limbs, friends, leaving both men gray beyond their years, shell-shocked, and battered. The connection they had back then is still alive and well, though, and from the moment Mark arrives, they re fencing again advancing, retreating, testing defenses. Have they been given a second chance? Or have time and a brutal war broken both men beyond repair?