In a way, Dorrie was enjoying her summer in British Columbia, where she was spending a holiday with her sister Julia. There was no doubt about it, Canada was a wonderful country, with it's vast areas of prairie, forest, lake and mountain, and it's bi...
Venice was marvelous -- but somehow Diana's holiday there wasn't working out as planned. Torn between the resentment of her jealous Aunt Vera and her hopeless love for the aristocratic Mark del Moreno, Diana decided she would be better off at...
Bindi's was a happy enough life, with the aunt and uncle who had been like parents to her ever since her own mother and father died, and her beloved riding. But it was not enough, Aunt Flo declared: 'No woman's life is complete without the masculine ...
The attractive French surgeon Reeve d'Artanon had been described as a "healer of hearts" by a grateful and adoring patient. But he looked more like a breaker of hearts to Trisha, his latest victim!...
Greer's delightful employer wanted her to marry her nephew, Lloyd Blair -- and it looked as if that odious Mike Fenton did too, as he was always implying that Greer had only come out to this job in the West Indies to find herself a husband. If...
"Every girl sets out on an unknown quest without knowing it until she meets the man of her heart," someone told Gaye -- but Gaye, spoiled and pampered by her father, was not particularly looking for any other man. Was she really so indepen...
Gerda needed the job at the Schloss Rosenburg in Austria -- but her employer, the stern Baron Max von Holzbauer, was another matter. How could she bear to be there, caring for the beautiful, tragic Helga von Daberg, in the knowledge that this was...
Vicki was thrilled to be going to the South of France for her beloved sister's wedding to an attractive Frenchman -- until she met an even more attractive Frenchman, Guy Ransart, who, alas! had no time for Vicki at all....
Freya had joined this cruise to Portugal and North Africa to convalesce from a bad bout of 'flu -- but it was hardly going to help the recovery process when the first man she met -- the Captain himself -- turned out to be Derek Leighton, whom she...
Martina was perfectly happy in Venice, looking after the lovable little Marco Vortolini -- if only that annoying man, Dominic Burnett di Ravenelli, would mind his own business and stop telling her the boy really needed a -- male -- tutor. But alth...
Dionis Ward was an interior decorator, and a very good one, too; so when her sister got engaged to a Spaniard it seemed the natural thing to get Dionis to make the trip to Spain and do up the villa they planned to live in. But the villa's landlor...
When Sara Everette met the fascinating Armand Romont whom she considered to be responsible for the death of her friend, she decided that she hated him and would make him pay for his actions. But she was to find that hatred can be akin to love... ...
The idea of Dru's stepbrother Mart sounded rather fun - he had suggested she join him on the beautiful Caribbean island where he lived and pretend to be his fiancee, to keep other husband-hunting females at bay. But that was before she met the ...
Emmy's delicate small nephew was a great responsibility, and she had firmly decided to keep any ideas of love and marriage in the background for the next two years until the child's health improved. But when she made that vow she hadn'...
The man she loved had changed. Why? When Laurel traveled to Japan to marry Kirk Graham, a British diplomat, she was afraid he might have forgotten her. Their summer romance seemed so far away. As soon as she saw him again she knew she loved him...
Two years ago Annabel had met and fallen in love with the fascinating Pierre Devigne, only to discover that he was not the marrying kind. Now she came into contact with him again and found that his views on matrimony had changed. But the girl of h...
The imposing Spaniard, Don Rambn de Biver y Aldenez, had once been an important and romantic figure in Venetia's young life. Years later, in his own country, they met again. Now all his thoughts were for his tragic young fiancee, and it was unlike...
For years a bitter family quarrel had kept Vinney apart from her mother and her sister, Denise. But now they were all together again, and Vinney was hoping for a happier relationship at last. But all she succeeded in doing was to fall in love with th...
When Lori went to stay with her brother in Venice, he warned her that the romantic atmosphere of the place blinds one to reality. But almost immediately she found herself falling in love with the handsome Prince Mario Doniletti Volleano -- who was ju...
Joanna loved her Canary Island home and valued her old friendship with Ramon, the handsome and imperious Marques de Orleron y Faustino. But she still hoped to revisit London, her birthplace. Yet she felt reluctant to leave, because the beautiful Cand...
"To get a man really out of your system there's nothing like having an affair with someone else", Nick Brandis advised Vanessa when she told him of her broken engagement --and she got the idea that Nick himself was offering to help her fo...
Felicity knew that the voice on the telephone had been that of Nora Staffordly. Although Felicity had never really doubted her husband's faithfulness, Nora's words filled her with unrest. A brilliant young lawyer, Curt found that his work and his ...
She must forget him But how could she? To Fran, the job on the French Riviera sounded ideal. Perhaps there she'd be happy again. Finding Rick Roman living next door, the matrimonial target of the woman she worked for, was disturbing. For ...
"I misjudged you," he said. "Forgive me." Diane had looked forward to meeting her pen pal, Maria, for the first time. She had not expected to have her whole world turned upside down. Unfortunately, from the moment she met Maria&...
High time she found herself a husband! Raised in an orphanage, Sally's need for a home and family had always been uppermost in her mind. Now she felt she should delay no longer. She had three possible candidates for a husband -- childhood f...
Laraine wondered if Harvey was right He had warned her that she'd accomplish nothing by dashing off to Scotland to care for the Moira girl injured in the accident. After all, Moira had been driving the car that ran into them. Laraine and Ha...
"I think you'll make a terrible husband!" Serena informed Bren Robart loftily. "I'm glad I'm not marrying you for real!" Serena had come to Australia with her friend Dee to seek adventure and romance. Then family illness called Dee home and Ser...
Shani's words struck like a mortal blow! "David married you out of chivalry." Shani pointed to the scar marring Sabina's cheek. "Why else would he marry a woman who looks like you?" Her full mouth quivered with distaste. ...
She loved the man she had divorced Suzanne hadn't planned to meet her ex-husband, Raoul de Brecourt, in Hong Kong. She'd gone there for a holiday. But there was no escaping Raoul's overpowering presence. From the start their marriag...
Tony Mastroni whispered softly, "Waiting for someone?" Tegi Moore stiffened. "What does it matter to you?" she asked. "It does. Were you waiting for...now, what's his name --?" he snapped his fingers "-- Colin?"...
Davina wasn't free to marry anyone After the death of their parents, Davina Mawne was sole provider for her young sister and brother. It took long hours of hard work, but Davina was proud of her success in keeping her family together. She h...
Could she fulfill such a condition? Only when she arrived on the island did Nora learn that part of her inheritance from Uncle Jake depended on her marrying a Manxman. There was no lack of candidates. Even, it was suggested, Jony Cesar, wh...
She loved him, but love wasn't enough Rachelle should never have married Pete Standring. She'd known he was a Canadian oil prospector, but she hadn't realized it was his whole life. Moreover, she hated oil-field living. So she left ...
Although it was two years now since she had separated from her husband Mark, Kate still regretted it. She had never ceased loving him, and now they had tentatively met again and Kate was making a determined effort at reconciliation. But was that goi...
Julie and Felipe were poles apart Julie had never reconciled herself to her parents' divorce, so her holiday in Majorca with her father and his new wife was filled with underlying sadness. Her sadness, Julie soon found, was nothing compared...
Kiss me and I will not fear love... You think there are still gentleman? Sue Blake has never met the men and seducers remote. And now a stranger who has the perfect gentleman plunges his yacht to rescue from the clutches of a coarse personage! Comedy...