The Anatomy of Courage

What happens when First Contact comes down the end of a barrel?

Here’s the synopsis for The Anatomy of Courage:

Dr. Christopher Walters has been assigned to a medical evac team serving on the front line of the war against the alien invaders known as the Novo. As part of the Dog Food Squad, his role is to provide battlefield triage to wounded soldiers in no man’s land. Life expectancy at the Front is so low no one uses their real names, and he teams up with Hawk, Mouse, Leech, Lavender and William Sunday to save those he can from the brutal reality of war. The Novos, though, are not what they seem. Inconsistencies leave Doc questioning the war and wondering what the price will be for peace…

This is a novel about assumptions and unthinking reactions and how we can become insular in our reasoning and miss the big picture in life. It looks at what it means to be courageous. Far from braving enemy gunfire, courage lies in having the fortitude to do the right thing when no one stands beside you. Courage isn’t so much about doing what we have to or what we’re forced to do; it’s doing what we need to do and not what we want to do. It doesn’t take courage to stand up to others so much as to stand up to ourselves and not shrink from the hard decisions in life.

The Anatomy of Courage launches on March 15th. I hope you enjoy this novel as much as I have.