Assignment in Eden — Joanne Holden

Maggi Barnett owed a great deal to Jerry Johnston, who had transformed her from a lowly file clerk straight out of an orphanage into a fashion reporter whose column was eagerly read even by her rivals; from a retiring, shy, non-descript girl into a glamorous, poised woman. It was not surprising that, even as Liza Doolittle, she fell in love with him and felt that her world revolved around him.

So when Jerry gave her an assignment to go to a farm in Vermont, where his mineralogist brother lived a secluded existence, she felt she could not refuse to try to help get “Scotty” out of his shell -- for Jerry's sake.