Second Chance — Marcia Miller

Pamela Kendall felt that her own life was ended when the young lawyer she was about to marry drove himself to his death on the night of their engagement party. Why had Bob been obsessed with the idea that Pamela's money would be a barrier to their married happiness? To find an answer, she must get away from Newton Bay, away from all the familiar things, away, even, from Vicky Barrett, her best friend.

It was at Miami Beach that Pamela saw for the first time the attractive man with the prematurely gray hair and tanned face. But nothing was registering clearly with Pamela then. It was only after she returned to Newton Bay and met him at Vicky's apartment that she knew here was a man who could mean something in her life. Then she heard that Cal Easton was in love with Vicky.

Pamela met Dr. Jim Canfield through her volunteer work in the Children's Ward at Newton General Hospital. Jim wanted to join the noted children's specialist, Dr. Shedlinger, in a new hospital in Arabia, and he asked Pamela to marry him and go with him. Perhaps it was the answer, she thought -- to be of help to children -- and she did like Jim. Then she went to Shifting Shadows, her family's home at Lake Tahoe -- and Jim, without waiting for her answer, left without her.

It took Jane Wilson, another friend of Pamela's, to tear the scales from her eyes that had blinded her from the beginning. And with her new found knowledge, Pamela was free to find happiness.