In a POW camp, two men forge a loyalty more daring than escape.

Stalag Luft III, 1944. A mass escape is brewing. Forgery chief Mick O'Sullivan, an RAF mapmaker, can reproduce any German pass—but his supplies are gone. The camp's newest prisoner, taciturn Czech partisan Jan Vlach, has access to the guarded stores, but his silence is a wall of ice. Forced into a wary partnership, they must trust each other to steal the ink and paper needed for two hundred and fifty men to break free. As their collaboration deepens into a forbidden, protective bond, an escape committee ultimatum and a Gestapo interrogation threaten to tear them apart. A work of LGBTQ+ historical fiction, Barbed Hearts is set against the backdrop of the real-life Great Escape, telling a story of defiance, resilience, and a love that becomes the ultimate act of treason.