True War Romances #19

When Fran Miller meets the charming Sgt. Roy Evans at a servicemen's dance, she must navigate her loyalty to her best friend Margie Adams—who'd been hoping to meet him herself. After Margie graciously steps aside, Fran and Roy grow close over the following weeks, and he asks her to go steady; but their budding romance faces an unexpected test when Roy's company is suddenly transferred to a camp upstate, leaving Fran to worry about whether their love can survive the distance and separation.

A Marine stationed nearby sweeps Mary off her feet, but their whirlwind romance shatters when Ken reveals he's already engaged to Helen Davies back home—a girl he proposed to out of sympathy rather than love. Torn between their genuine feelings for each other and their refusal to destroy Helen's life, Mary and Ken must make an impossible choice that will haunt them both.

After three years away, Randy Dobbs comes home to his devoted fiancée Meg, but the man who returns isn't the tender, devoted soldier she remembers—he's distant, uncertain, haunted by something the war has changed in him. As Meg fights to hold onto their love and convince Randy to rebuild their life together, his painful nostalgia for his old Army buddies and the freedom of wartime pulls him deeper into drinking and the company of Florrie Packer, leaving Meg to wonder if the man she loves is truly gone forever.

When Larry Bedford learns he's being drafted, he abandons all hope for their future together—and begins squandering their carefully saved money on gambling, nightclubs, and reckless spending. Nancy watches helplessly as the man she loves spirals into self-destruction, convinced his number will come up and determined to live only for today. She devises a bold plan to shock him back to reality, introducing him to a friend whose own wartime marriage ended in tragedy.