The Amazing Interlude, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, is a World War I romance set in war-torn Belgium. Sara Lee Kennedy, an American woman engaged to a steady but unimaginative fiancé, Harvey, longs to do something meaningful with her life. She travels to Belgium and establishes a soup kitchen near the front lines, serving starving civilians and wounded soldiers. There she meets the mysterious Captain Louis, an Englishman secretly working as an Allied spy behind German lines. Torn between duty and passion, Sara Lee experiences love, sacrifice, and tragedy when Louis's mission ends in capture and execution. Returning home, she forever cherishes her amazing interlude.
