Win Their Hearts, Forge Your Fate

The war has been going long enough that ordinary people are mostly just surviving it. Baz Lee is a farmer past fifty. A system fastens onto him and starts turning his age back. It works through marriage, and over this stretch of his life he meets several women who stay with him. Yasmine Lynch is a general. She has been badly wounded and is living under a name that is not hers. She and Baz strike a deal. She dresses as a man, he goes in beside her, and the two of them get inside an army camp. Baz starts there as one more farmer in the ranks and works upward from that toward a command of his own.