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by M. Scott Smallwood (Author)
A Faith-based Novel.
Dreams of War follows James Grayson, a 30-year-old veteran of the Great War, who stumbles through the wreckage of his life carrying memories that refuse to loosen their grip. Haunted by violence, loss, and the voice of a darker self, he struggles to navigate a world that has moved on without him. The novel unfolds as a long confession-uneven, trembling, heavy with the cadence of a man who has survived too much and healed too slowly.War doesn't end when the fighting stops. For James Grayson, it never stopped at all.
Louisville, 1917. Eighteen-year-old James is searching for purpose in the shadow of his mother's death and the weight of a fire he couldn't forget. When he enlists in the Army and reports to Camp Zachary Taylor, he believes war might finally give his life meaning. Instead, it shatters everything he thought he knew about courage, guilt, and the fragile threads that hold a man together.
From the crowded streets of early-20th-century Louisville to the ruined villages of France, James forms bonds that shape him - with the loyal friend who's been by his side since childhood, the men who become his brothers in the trenches, and Emily, the young woman whose letters carry him through the darkest nights.
But as the war grinds on, James must confront the truth his mother once tried to teach him: bravery isn't found in the battlefield's chaos, but in the quiet moments afterward, when a man must face what he's done... and what he's lost.
Raw, intimate, and deeply human, Dreams of War is a powerful coming-of-age story about love, memory, and the ghosts we carry home.
