What We Could Not Write Home is a Top 100 Amazon Best Seller in Epistolary Fiction and a Top 15 Amazon New Release, blending military fiction, medical drama, and the letters of a DUSTOFF crew in Afghanistan.

Twenty-two-year-old Army medic Elijah “Eli” Turner arrives at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, carrying everything a young husband and father is supposed to carry into a deployment: training, duty, photographs from home, and the belief that he knows what the year ahead will require of him.

He doesn’t.

Selected to serve as a flight medic with a DUSTOFF crew, Eli is thrust into a world measured in rotor blades, radio calls, blood, and minutes.

A wounded soldier on a mountainside.

A child waiting beneath the lights of an aid station.

A helicopter lifting into the darkness while everyone aboard knows that sometimes getting there quickly still isn’t quick enough.

Through letters to his wife and family, Eli tries to describe Afghanistan without bringing the war into their home.

So he tells them he is fine.

But some stories cannot be written in letters.

Between the words he sends home are the missions he cannot describe, the people he cannot forget, the fear he refuses to admit, and the quiet question that follows him from one flight to the next:

How much of yourself can you leave on the battlefield before the person who comes home is no longer the person who left?

Inspired by the realities of military medical evacuation and written with the perspective of more than twenty years of military medical experience, What We Could Not Write Home is a work of fiction about war—but even more, it is a story about the people who live between the missions.

The crews who keep flying.

The families who keep waiting.

And the things we sometimes cannot say to the people we love most.