Afraid to Dream — Lilian Chisholm

"I'll never dream again," vowed Sara when her first young romance faded. "Awakening is too painful."

But mightn't she change her mind when she went to work for Mark Hepworth, far more disillusioned and embittered than herself? She could not deny his attraction, and could not stifle the hope that she was the one who, sharing his doubts and distrust, could cure him of them. But it seemed she was wrong, had hoped for too much. Mark distrusted all women -- yet he was still in love with the ghost of the one woman who had caused the disillusionment. And even if he ever did turn to one he could love again, wasn't it far more likely to be the beautiful Valerie?