Quin

War has left its marks on Sergeant Quinby Graham, but nothing can dim his irrepressible hunger for life. Recovering from his injuries and restless for purpose, he wanders into a dance hall one evening and spots Eleanor Bartlett across the room, a young woman draped in privilege but imprisoned by her family's expectations. She is everything he cannot have: refined, wealthy, destined for a man her parents have chosen. Yet something in his gaiety, his refusal to be diminished by what life has dealt him, calls to her. What begins as a flirtation becomes a desperate reach for something real in a world determined to keep them apart. Rice writes with sharp wit and deep compassion about two people who must fight for the right to shape their own destinies, against the weight of tradition and the shadows of war.