The Yawning Hill to Heaven

In a war that history would forget, their love will be remembered.

In the final year of the Korean War, two strangers—Frank Nunez, a principled junior officer and second-generation Puerto Rican immigrant, and Geri Vincent, a fiercely independent Army nurse from rural Illinois with a haunted past—meet in a moment that changes everything. Their whirlwind romance becomes a lifeline amid the horror of the Korean War.

As Frank is thrown into the brutal chaos of combat, his newlywed bride tends to the broken and the dying in a military hospital overwhelmed by casualties only a few miles from the front-line trenches, all the while fighting her own private war against childhood trauma and a bitterness that threatens to destroy her young, fragile marriage.

A devastating loss sends their lives spiraling apart, and when Frank goes missing in action during one of the war’s fiercest battles, Geri must confront the grief, guilt, and long-buried fears that have shaped her identity. Left to navigate the agonizing purgatory between hope and despair, Geri faces the emotional wreckage of war and a final battle for her own soul.

Spanning battlefield trenches, Army hospital wards, and intimate confession, The Yawning Hill to Heaven explores the complicated grace of love. Not just a war story, not just a love story, but a spiritual survival story told with stunning emotional depth and unflinching realism.

The Yawning Hill to Heaven is a sweeping tale of courage, love, and the power of forgiveness.