Afraid to Love — Florence Stuart

"You'll be better off once you're rid of that place!" So everyone told Ricky Palmer about the Dream House she and Paul had built - dear, wonderful Paul who was killed just days before their wedding. But to Ricky, that house was her only link to Paul and to love. And no one would invade the privacy she found... only there. Not her demanding sister Better; not her senile Aunt Marcia; not her good friend George Huntley who was desperately in love with her, and not the ruthless, unscrupulous Ila Hunt who schemed to invade Ricky's privacy just for the sensationalism of a newspaper story. Why then did Ricky feel comfortable about letting Brad Nelson into the house and into her life? Was there something about the handsome publisher that lit a spark in Ricky's heart - a spark which she thought was dead forever?

Original Title: The Book of Love