I'll Be Home for Christmas — Julie L. Cannon

IT'S CHRISTMASTIME 1944 and Maggie Culpepper finds herself far from home and those she holds dear. With the U.S. at war and Maggie's heart reeling from the death of her saintly mother, she had impulsively stumbled into a recruiting center and enlisted in the U.S. Navy WAVES. Anger at God and fear of the out-of-control feelings that accompany love caused her to run from the marriage proposal of William Dove, her boyfriend and longtime neighbor.

Though a childhood bout with polio left William physically unfit for military service, he wages an all-out battle to recapture Maggie's heart. Will Maggie ever be able to open her heart to love again...and find her way home for Christmas?