It was a shock to Verity when she learned that the aunt whom she had loved and cared for had left her penniless; still more when her fiancee made it clear that the loss of her fortune was the end of her attraction for him. But she decided to put it a...
Susan Lindsay's life in Aberdeen with her prosaic stepbrother and his selfish wife was not an enviable one. Small wonder that when her sophisticated, prosperous friend Julia Dunholme suddenly offered her a post as governess in England she eagerly sei...
Fenella was in beautiful, sunny Spain, her job was turning out well (looking after a dear little boy), and the man she loved was painting her portrait. She had only one thing to wish for --and then the very granting of that wish seemed to threaten al...
Sandra was sure she would not like her new job of helping to run Inverarlie, Charles Monteith's guest-house in the Scottish Highlands, but she soon found that in spite of herself she was getting interested in it - and him! ...
Probably Harold and Robert and their wives did not mean to turn Valerie into a drudge; but they were doing it all the same - until Vivian returned from America, wealthy, energetic and strongly determined that her young sister should not be put upon f...
When Loraine took a job as governess to little Fiona Graham she found herself working in very disagreeable conditions, and she was by no means sure that she would change for the better when her charge was moved from an uncomfortable London house to a...
When Julie Grist, widowed two years before, moved to the Highlands for the sake of her little son's health, her cousin Jay went with her -- though it meant giving up not only an interesting job but also her chance of being near the man she loved. Th...
In order to look after her orphaned nephew, Jan Carberry had to give up her secretarial job and go as "spare wheel" to an impoverished Scottish country estate which took in paying guests. A "spare wheel", according to the job advertisement, was som...
When Sharlie went as a secretary to beautiful Swanswick Hall she very quickly became aware of the fact that there was something not quite right in the relationships of the people who lived there. She didn't expect, however, that she herself would bec...