Christmas Proposal, A

After losing her fianc? and brothers in the Great War, and with her family?s wealth gone, Beatrice must make her own living against her mother?s disapproval. Fiercely independent, she dreams of becoming a headmistress one day. When a nearby country house is requisitioned for use as a military hospital, she volunteers to help, and works alongside David, the new doctor. Though drawn to him, Beatrice has loved and lost once, and her heart is buried with her fianc? in France. Yet when she kisses him at the Christmas party, she knows she has already fallen for him. Can Beatrice still achieve her career dreams as a doctor?s wife? And when David is called up to serve with the Emergency Medical Service in London ? and then go overseas with the Royal Army Medical Corps ? is she set to lose another fianc??