With Love and Crocodiles — Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever… July 1943. Eva's husband is missing after his boat is torpedoed in the South China Sea. Neither a wife nor a widow, she volunteers for a job so physically tough she begins to forget what it feels like to be a woman â€" until she comes face-to-face with a man who turns her world upside down. Bill is a black American GI stationed in Britain for the D-Day landings. He thinks a woman like Eva is beyond his reach. And she is afraid of the way he makes her feel. But neither can deny the unstoppable passion that engulfs them that hot, frantic summer when each new day could be their last. Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Eva is caught in an impossible situation. And the decision she makes will echo down generations to come… A compelling, moving epic full of love, passion and heartbreak - inspired by true events.