Yours, With Love — Jean Carew

After her father died, where could Ellen go? Did she dare take the job in Kurt Hollister's home, knowing how much she loved him...knowing he was married!

Loving a Married Man...

Ellen Marshall's father died, leaving her with a flamboyant, money-hungry step-mother who wanted no part in a teen-aged daughter. So Ellen decided to strike out on her own and make a new life for herself. Her job hunting led her to a live-in position as secretary to author Paul Jean Hollister. But in moving into the Hollister mansion, she met Paul Jean's two nephews, Clyde and Kurt.

Clyde was attracted to Ellen, but she had already fallen in love with Kurt, not knowing that he had a wife -- the cold, withdrawn, Beatrice.

Did Ellen dare confess her feelings to Kurt? And how would she handle Clyde's advances? Ellen was afraid she would have to give up her job and the man she loved!

YOURS, WITH LOVE

When Kurt Hollister mentioned to his Uncle Paul Jean that he had heard the miners' working conditions at the family gold mines in California were bad, Paul Jean welcomed the opportunity to visit the mines in person. And, of course, he took his pretty new secretary, Ellen Marshall, with him, for he had been dictating a book to her giving the history of the mines.

And Ellen, knowing that she was falling desperately in love with Kurt, was glad to go with Paul Jean. For Kurt had a wife -- hard, spiteful Beatrice -- who didn't love Kurt herself, but who was determined that no one else should have him.

But when Paul Jean broke his leg--almost as soon as they got to California -- and Kurt came out in answer to Ellen's wife, Kurt and Ellen could conceal their love for each other no longer.

Ellen, believing that Beatrice would never give Kurt a divorce, and thinking that it would be better not to stay at Hollister House, decided to visit Aunt Margaret in Westchester and help her with her project of entertaining the children from the orphans' home. In doing this, she might forget her own heartache... For the futured seemed hopeless, until...