Love and Duty — Kate Alexander

'Alexander's characterizations are lively...her characters are well rounded.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'An excellent read.....I couldn't put the book down.' - READING PANEL Ella Martin is so in love with Piers Armitage that even the prospect of taking on the three children of his first marriage doesn't seem too daunting. After their initial mistrust, the children seem to accept Ella. It is Piers himself who proves to be hard to handle, for the carefree, pleasure-seeking quality which attracted Ella in the first place is a different prospect once they are married. Ella finds that the children are becoming more and more important to her. As the couple's priorities diverge, she begins to understand that there is a thin line between the demands of love and duty...