The Women of Champion City by Doris Davis

'That winter of early 1945 was a rough time for women. Too many of their men were away at war, and too many soldiers were present and on the loose. In Champion City, where Cassandra Bickham ran her tourist court hotel, there were wives without their husbands, and soldiers without their wives, and even as wise and cynical a woman as Cass found the going difficult.'