If the time is not yet ripe for your love... Set against the bleak backdrop of the Third Reich*, this book* tells the story of a young soldier struggling to survive on the Eastern Front while remembering a bygone era full of freedom, love and longing. As the war becomes ever more brutal and merciless, the only thing that keeps him going is the memory of his secret love for Peter, which began during an idyllic summer on the Baltic Sea. But fate brings them together again years later when the war sends them both into the hell of Stalingrad. As the empire collapses around them, hope remains for what they once shared - a spark of humanity in a world that devours everything. An erotic gay romance.