Once You Have Found Him
What could be more delightful than to spend the sunny July days of Goodwood Week in a beautiful Georgian country mansion, with masses of expensive clothes to wear, pleasant people for company, and nothing to do but enjoy oneself? Poppy Duncan was in that enviable situation, but with one underlying, fatal flaw in her happiness -- she was there on false pretences.

Plantation Doctor
"You don't care for our doctor? Women never do. He's too careless of their emotions, too much the immovable bachelor," observed an acquaintance to Lynden Russell when Lynden found herself in unexpected circumstances at the Denton Rubber Plantation in West Africa. The doctor in question, Dr. Adrian Sinclair, had rescued Lynden from an unfortunate predicament, but had not hesitated to let her know his opinion of her folly - "Didn't you realize before you came that West Africa is no place for an unattached woman?" In her anger at Dr. Sinclair's highhanded way, Lynden told herself that she could not care less about what he thought. She would never have dreamed that a day might come when she would want his good opinion of her more than anything else.

Paris — and My Love
Marianne was young, she was in Paris —that perfect setting for romance — and she was in love with Nat. The only snag was that she was not at all sure of Nat's feelings for her. Did he have any more than a brotherly affection for her? Could she possibly hope for more in the face of the very stiff competition provided by the glamorous Lisette? It was a good job, Marianne reflected, that she had nice, kind Roger Senloe to turn to and to advise her.