Kathryn Miller Haines – Rosie Winters is Haines’s protagonist, a smart, brassy gal scrambling to make it as an actress during WWII. Rosie’s adventures are intertwined with all kinds of forties issues like the black market spawned by  rationing, a “marriage” agency taking servicemen to the cleaners for their benefits, and a U.S.O. tour in the war-ravaged Pacific Theater. Rosie also ends up torn between the husband she hardly knew, who is lost and found and lost again during the war, and a charming officer she meets while on the outs with her husband. There’s now a fourth adventure, When Winter Returns, which ends the series but does not resolve the romantic predicaments of Rosie and her friend Jayne, nor resolve the legal and physical trauma of her ex-husband Jack. Added bonuses: a cranky cat and plots that tip a hat at two Kay Francis movies: Four Jills in a Jeep and Allotment Wives, Inc., as well as to All Through the Night and They Came to Blow Up America. The series includes: The War Against Miss Winters, The Winter of Discontent, Winter in June. Click here for Haines’s Rosie Winter web page. While you’re there, check out her Iris Anderson YA ’40s series.
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