Having spent his youth being passed around from one family to the next until he decided to strike out on his own, Beverly Fossey has learned that he does not like anything complicated. Keeping his head down and minding his own business is his best approach to life and it's the philosophy he brings with him into the Army. Unfortunately, Beverly finds himself being blackmailed for events that happened years before. Although it's not really the blackmail part that he's worried about¿There's nothing Iris Crawley loves more than drama. And if there isn't any, she's not afraid to create some. Enlisting in the Army as a nurse and passing for white are merely two details in her life that are there to fulfill her yearning for adventure. She doesn't count on falling in love with her English host family or being intrigued by the serious and stoic Sergeant Beverly Fossey-which is a problem considering that any romance between them is, if not forbidden, certainly unadvisable by both society's rules and the Sergeant's himself.