First a Dream — Marie Pershing

Lovely ash-blonde Roseanna Mitchell was penniless and desperate about the health of Casey, her young brother. Finding a maid's job on Dr. Matthew Clarke's lush Florida estate was the sheerest luck. But the rugged doctor soon had other plans for his "English Rose': marriage- but in name only.

Marriage meant Casey could have expensive surgery he needed. Matthew would have a balm for his broken heart. But what of Roseanna? After all they had shared could she keep the 'no emotions' part of their strange bargain? And could she keep Matthew from Veronica, the catlike beauty from his past who had reappeared and would stop at nothing to get him back?

Hero: Dr./Doctor Matthew Clarke
Heroine: Roseanna Mitchell