Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton carried with him the memory of a night in 1937 when his intervention rescued Lizzie Gillespie from the oldest peril a fourteen-year-old girl could face. Though she was rough around the edges, he hired Lizzie as a companion for his handicapped mother while he was at war. Upon his return in 1943, Geoff hardly recognized the grown-up Lizzie -- a beautiful, talented woman with high ideals and goals -- and nothing like the waif he'd last seen. It was apparent to Lizzie that Geoff had changed as well.