
As time passes and their friendship develops in something more, Alice-Ann wonders if she’ll ever be prepared to say good-bye to her one true love and embrace the future God has in store with a newfound love. Dreading the war will leave her with a beautiful dress and no happily ever after, Alice-Ann fills her days with work and caring for her best friend’s war-torn brother, Carlton. But then Mack’s letters ease altogether, leaving Alice-Ann to fear the worst. As their correspondence continues over the next three years, Mack and Alice-Ann are drawn closer together. But Alice-Ann is determined to wear the wedding dress her maiden aunt never had a chance to wear-having lost her fiancé long ago. Though promising to write, Mack leaves without confirmation that her love is returned. But when they receive news of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mack decides to enlist, Alice-Ann realizes she must declare her love before he leaves. Living in rural Georgia in 1941, sixteen-year-old Alice-Ann has her heart set on her brother’s friend Mack despite their five-year age gap, Alice-Ann knows she can make Mack see her for the woman she’ll become.

No review, positive or otherwise, was required-all opinions are my own. Disclaimer: The One True Love of Alice-Ann, by Eva Marie Everson, was provided by Tyndale House.
