The second book of the Homecomings series is a novella about another of the men from the prologue of book 1. Jack has bought a cattle station in Queensland after the war because he is a changed man and suffers from terrible nightmares and PTSD. He thinks that he is a danger to others and therefore leads an isolated life.
Fleur is a British nurse who served directly behind the front line during the Battle of the Somme and lost all of her family in the war. She takes up a post at a rural hospital in Australia because she wants to start a new life and not be reminded of the war anymore. When she meets Jack she is intrigued, without knowing his secret, and he feels drawn to her but tries to keep his distance, although that is hard because there is no other hospital anywhere in the region.

Although the story is rather foreseeable, I quite liked it. Fleur and Jack are enjoyable characters and the story seemed plausible to me. The descriptions of life in the outback in the 1920s were interesting and seemed rather authentic to me. ( )