Echoes of the Great War Trilogy

A nurse. A wife. A war that will test her soul.

Henrietta “Hettie” Steward is not your ordinary bride-to-be. Feisty, educated, and fiercely ambitious, she dreams of continuing her work as a nurse, but society expects her to abandon her career for marriage.

When the echoes of the Great War thunder across the world, Hettie's dreams collide with...

The Great War tests not only those who fight, but those left behind.

In summer 1914, the Steward family prepares for the joyous union of Hettie Steward and Geoffrey Bartlett, an event that will officially bond together two families that have been interconnected for decades. Little do they know that the ominous clouds of war will soon shatter the...

When the guns fall silent, hearts must learn to heal.

The hopeful cheers of Armistice Day have faded into a quiet, uneasy silence. Nurse Hettie Taylor returns to Canada married to Alfred — a stranger in many ways — and haunted by the memory of her first husband, Geoffrey, whose death she never fully mourned.

Hettie and Alfred return to a world...

Three novels. One unforgettable journey through love, loss and courage.

Melina Druga’s Where Poppies Grow brings together three sweeping novels that trace the emotional and human cost of the Great War through the eyes of those who lived it. From the battlefields of Europe to the quiet streets of wartime Canada, Echoes of the Great War Trilogy...