Charade — Joan Elliott Pickart

One moment writer Whitney Jordan was strolling the aisles of McNeil's Department Store, plotting the untimely demise of a soap opera heartthrob; the next, she was nearly knocked over by a real-life stunner who implored her to be his fiancee! The ailing little gray-haired aunt who'd raised him had one final wish, he said -- to see her dear nephew Tennes married to the wonderful girl he'd described in his letters... Only that girl hadn't existed--until now! Tennes promised the masquerade would last only through lunch, but Whitney gave such an inspired performance that Aunt Olive refused to let her go. And what began as a playful romantic deception grew more breathlessly real by the minute...

Hero: Tennes Whitney
Heroine: Whitney Jordan