Love's First Light — Gina Welborn

Sometimes you fall in love with the wrong person.

That's what happened the moment Renna Laurent meets the fire department's most rakish fireman at the Wichita High School Alumni Carnival. Like most girls experiencing love-at-first-sight, she does the logical thing and gives Joe McDermott his winning cake . . . and a smile in hopes he, too, will profess his love. Naturally he does doesn't. As months pass, Renna seeks solace in one courtship after another. Surely there's a man out there who can woo her away from dreaming about Joe and about how glorious their future will be if only he would love her.

Sometimes you fall in love with the right person all along.

For Wichita fireman Joe McDermott, Renna is a fire he can't contain or capture. Her beauty renders him speechless. Just when her current courtship ends and Joe finds the right words, she's off on another whirlwind romance. Whatever type of man she's looking isn't him. Or so he thinks . . . until one fateful Yuletide Masquerade Ball changes everything.