Can she choose between her duty & her heart? While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce & Britain's young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in Littlehampton running smoothly. Waitress Lili Probert, a young woman who escaped her demanding family in Wales in search of a new life in Sussex, has seen her hard work rewarded at the Beach Hotel, but hides heartbreak behind her sunny personality. Her sweetheart, Norman, is missing in action & has been presumed dead, but she cannot give up hope that he may be found. But when she meets injured soldier Rhodri, a fellow Welshman now living near Littlehampton, she fights hard to ignore her growing attraction for him, torn between her feelings for him & her loyalty to the man she thought she'd spend her life with. But her emotions run ever higher when she suddenly receives a call from home; her mother is gravely ill & Lili is needed f...