Chicago and rural Illinois, 1918.Eddie Ocampo once belonged to the sky. After surviving the Spanish flu and the pneumonia that followed, he has been left with damaged lungs, a narrow room, and a doctor's verdict that commercial flying is over. But when quarantined towns are cut off from medicine, Eddie sees the one thing his broken body may still be able to offer: flight.Silas McKean tends the sick in a converted barn infirmary, working beyond official approval and under the suspicious eyes of frightened neighbors. He has knowledge, compassion, and a past he would rather keep buried. What he does not have is enough medicine, enough time, or enough protection from the authorities who may shut him down.When Eddie offers to carry medical supplies over blocked roads and hostile territory, Silas knows the plan is reckless. He also knows people will die without it. Their uneasy partnership becomes a bond forged through danger, exhaustion, and the quiet intimacy of men who understand what it means to be useful only at great personal cost.As armed resistance, quarantine fear, and illness close in around them, Eddie and Silas must decide how much they are willing to risk for the lives of strangers, and for a love that has no safe place in the world they inhabit.The Mercy Wing is an MM historical romance about illness, courage, forbidden tenderness, and the fragile hope that survives when two damaged men choose to face the sky together.
