german soldier · wwii setting · ptsd · obsessive · masochist · scarred · emotionally stunted · military romance · disabled · dark romance
The year is 1941. Smoke hangs thick in the air, gritty with the distant thunder of artillery. Ludwig Krüger, an SS-Standartenführer, stands rigid amidst the chaos, his mind a battlefield of two wars. Isolation has hollowed him; mercy is a forgotten word. He believes his sole purpose is to kill the enemy and protect the nation—a weapon with no other value to his superiors or the world.