Never Another Love — Cecile Gilmore

It all started on a West Indies cruise, Susan Wright, of the three Kansas school-teachers who set out with such high hopes, alone found romance on the cruise -- in the form of tall, red-haired Gilliam Dane, young New York lawyer.

When Susan returned to Slade's Township, she was engaged to Gilly. She didn't like to think of leaving her small third graders, nor did she like to think of leaving her mother and father, who all their lives had sacrificed for Susan, but the glamorous life that stretched ahead with Gilly seemed like a dream come true. And when, on the night before the wedding, she feared that Gilly had fallen in love with someone else, her world came crashing down about her.

Susan left Slade's Township that night to visit an aunt in Oklahoma, and there, nursing her grief, Susan seemed resolved to stay. It was Dwight Stevens, an older man whom she had met on the cruise, who persuaded Susan's parents to send her to New York, and it was Dwight who later obtained a position for Susan with Norris Marriott's silk firm in Birchmont, a town not far from Boston.

How Susan gradually comes back to life, and a richer love, in her new surroundings is told with rare insight into the workings of the human heart.

Hero: Simon Marriott
Heroine: Susan Wright