Big Blue Soldier

War left Jim Huntington with nothing but a uniform and a grudge against the world. Stumbling into the wrong house hungry and hollow, he finds himself trapped at dinner with Miss Marilla Chadwick and her sharp-tongued neighbor Mary Amber, who despises men as much as he despises girls. A case of mistaken identity keeps him at the table, and what begins as mutual hostility becomes something far more dangerous: they're forced to see each other as people, not enemies. Grace Livingston Hill writes with gentle wit and compassion for her battle-weary hero and fiercely independent heroine, crafting a warm, old-fashioned romance where the real war isn't between nations but between two stubborn hearts refusing to surrender.