Following the tragic death of her best friend, nineteen-year-old Bethany Davies vowed her heart would never be left vulnerable to hurt again. While the Second World War raged on in the Pacific, Bethany found herself fighting her own personal war at home. The Davies family, like most families in Dobson's Crossroads, North Carolina, had been affected by the war in one way or another. When older brother Jeffrey wrote he was coming home on leave and bringing a friend, Bethany could never have foreseen how this English soldier would drastically change her life.