Excuse Me, Ava Gardner, Would You Like to Dance?

Recently, when we promoted Maggie Davis's torrid genre romances, we told you that she was also a serious mainstream novelist, and in Stage Door Canteen she has reconstructed the famous World War II recreation center where a furloughed serviceman could set his cares aside for a few hours and dance with a pretty girl before returning for duty. Sometimes stars of stage and screen would offer to serve as hostesses, giving GI's not just a dance but the memory of a lifetime.

In this E-Reads Original, Maggie Davis has created a cast of men and women unknown to each other, whose lives intermingle on a dance floor illuminated by the fires of war. When a man stepped out on that floor he didn't know if he'd be holding in his arm the girl next door or an exquisite movie star. Or a German spy...

- Richard Curtis