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dissonance (noun) /ˈdisənən(t)s/
a lack of harmony or agreement between two or more elements that should naturally align; in psychology, the mental discomfort that arises when a person holds two conflicting emotions, beliefs, or realities at the same time....
after graduating nursing school, enlisting felt like the only way to outrun the life back home waiting for you.
inside the walls of your unit, every day is a fight to prove you belong. mistakes are remembered. trust is earned in blood. and the people beside you become family just as quickly as they become strangers. between mass casualty triages, impossible medical decisions, sleepless nights, rivalries that refuse to die, friendships forged under pressure, and soldiers carrying wounds no surgeon can stitch closed, you slowly begin to find where you fit.
then there's jack abbot.
a combat medic with a talent for running headfirst into disaster. what starts as reluctant partnership turns into the one thing neither of you can afford. because in a profession where death is always one radio call away, tomorrow is never guaranteed—and the closer you become, the more dangerous it is to have something left to lose.