Fields of Battle — Kate Alexander

What chance had their love in a world gone mad? A tale of love and conflict in wartime England.

Rilla Gray was a beautiful working-class innocent, afraid of her feelings for a man who seemed so far above her, but willing to risk all to keep from losing him. Barney Wainwright, handsome, well-born, charming, could have any woman he wanted, yet he was drawn to this girl so different from any he had ever desired.

Rilla would never have met Barney if the outbreak of war in September 1939 hadn't seen him posted to her home town. Only in an England thrown into turmoil by World War II could these two have come together, ill-matched in background and worldliness, Rilla is dazzled by the attractive, young officer. Until their romantic fling is transformed in a hasty marriage based on necessity, because an unexpected pregnancy ends with their charming interlude. A swift marriage for which neither of them was prepared.

Neither is prepared for the ravages of war, the equally intense battlefield of their fateful marriage nor the gnawing loneliness of long separation. Because war soon forced them to take separate paths, he as a spy for the French Resistance, she as a field nurse. And though loneliness and desire drove each of them into the arms and hearts of other lovers, one day they would come together again to test the truth about their love and themselves.