Answer with Love — Isabel Cabot

Even before she reached Hobbs, Susan Blair met two of the town's most eligible young men. Neil Wesley, the older of the two and a doctor, quickened her pulse, but it was his brother Bob who began an immediate campaign for Susan's evenings. Susan had driven to Hobbs to spend the first summer in several with her father, an itinerant efficiency expert, but it came as a surprise that Hamilton Blair's current assignment was with the Rhys Industries. Susan knew the Rhyses well. She had just completed college with the twins, the reckless, headstrong Gilda and the handsome Gideon, who had played a major role in Susan's social -- and romantic -- life in college. She had even met their grandmother -- and had cataloged Hester Rhys as a sweet old lady.

If Susan's own plans concerning Neil Wesley were threatened by his brother's persistence and Gideon's renewal of his former claim on her time, Susan was not afraid that she could handle the situation diplomatically and easily. But she reckoned without Hester Rhys. Far from being meek and mild, Hester controlled the family business and fortune with a dictatorial hand -- and she had already decided that the confident, levelheaded Susan was the perfect woman for the irresponsible grandson who would one day control the family's financial interests.