What We Carry - Couverture rigide

Blackman, Darius

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798182884563

Editeur : Darius Blackman Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

A new post. A wider war. The same man learning what he can carry.

Specialist Malik Carter arrives at Fort Hood with his orders, his truck, and a hard-earned sense of himself. His marriage has ended. His Army career is moving forward. Yet a larger post brings more than a fresh start: every missing item, delayed update, and hurried decision can reach far beyond the soldier who makes it.

Under the exacting attention of Raines, Dorsey, and Mays, Malik learns how responsibility changes when more people depend on his work. Younger soldiers need guidance. Old friends offer familiar ways to avoid growing up. Being useful can earn trust, but it can also become a place to hide from the parts of life that cannot be settled with a clean count or a signature.

Sunny asks for a different kind of honesty. Through quiet calls, letters, and visits, she gives Malik room to speak without surrendering her own boundaries. As their relationship deepens, he must learn to receive care and stay present when peace feels less familiar than conflict.

Then orders send him to Afghanistan. Along narrow mountain roads and inside the routine of a forward operating base, supplies become promises made to people waiting down the line. The pressures of deployment test his judgment, his friendships, and the fragile connection he is building across the distance. Keeping a vehicle moving is one responsibility. Recognizing when a soldier is struggling is another.

What We Carry is Book Two of The Predatory Spouse Series, an intimate military novel about duty, trust, and the work of becoming dependable without disappearing into what others need. Darius Blackman follows Malik through the public demands of service and the private adjustments that make a life possible beyond it.

This Illustrated Special Edition presents the complete novel in the Letters Home interior design, with nine full-color illustrations, distinctive chapter openings, and carefully styled letters and messages. Scenes of arrival, movement, preparation, and quiet connection give the book a visual life that follows its emotional journey.

For readers drawn to character-centered military fiction, complicated friendships, and relationships built through small acts of honesty, What We Carry asks how a man learns to carry responsibility without carrying every burden alone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Darius Blackman Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182884563
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible