When her beloved father is killed in the Blitz, trainee nurse April Harvey is all alone in the world. Desperate to find the family she craves, she heads to Truro, her mother's home town.
But danger and heartbreak lurk even in Cornwall, and when the American G. I.s arrive, April finds her life turned upside down as she discovers that some people are not to be trusted. Especially when it comes to her budding romance with Major Crawford Dunbar.
As vicious rumours emerge, April fears there will never be a future for them. But if war has taught her anything, it is that you must grasp happiness where you can, and April is not prepared to give up without a fight . . . Eileen Ramsay grew up in Dumfriesshire. After graduation she went to Washington DC, where she taught in private schools for some years, before moving to California with her Scottish husband. There, she raised two sons, finished her Masters Degree, fell in love with Mexico, and published her first short stories and a Regency novel.
The family returned to Scotland where Eileen continued to teach and write and to serve - at different times - on the committees of The Society of Authors in Scotland, The Scottish Association of Writers and The Romantic Novelists Association. In 2004, her novel SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Eileen was Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association 2015-2017.
Eileen passed away in 2023 at the age of eight-two. The trials, tribulations and triumphs of G. I. Brides during WWII Eileen is a doyenne of saga publishing - The G. I. Bride is the first in her brand new WWII-set series Author is the former Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association A key title in our Memory Lane saga publishing programme and reader community Strong, complex female leads - blazing a trail as they confront sexism and parochialism in the midst of change on a global scale
