A Corgi Romance

Everyone was quite sure that wealthy Laurian Vale would accept Philip Dallas; they were a perfect match, such a good-looking couple - and, as Mr Vale remarked, it would do his daughter no harm to have a baronet for a father-in-law. But Laurian herself wasn't so sure: Philip was pleasant enough, but when she was with him she felt no excitement, none of the romantic thrills she had expected from the man who was to be her husband . . . And then she met Roy, a worker in her father's factory, who, in a single meeting, swept her off her feet - it was like her secret dream come true. Dizzy with happiness, she planned to defy her family and marry the man of her own choice - but her father, convinced that Roy was only interested in her money, begged her to wait six months. Laurian agreed, but six months seemed like a lifetime.

Always unsure of herself, overshadowed from childhood by her sophisticated sister Eileen, Heather had to struggle to rebuild her life after Don broke their engagement. She found some comfort in her love of the countryside and her job in a small market garden. Unfortunately though, her employers were close friends of Alex Carr, Don's boss. Heather detested him at first - his manner towards her was insufferably cold and superior. But gradually, her feelings for Alex changed - and then the dazzling Eileen began to take an interest in him too.

Edmund Forth, a wealthy architect with an estate in Portugal, is being manoeuvred into marriage with a girl whom he admires for her social graces and her titled mother. But then the appearance of Fran, so simple and so penniless awakes in him for the very first time a feeling of genuine – and most disturbing – emotion.

When Pauline Avon went as secretary to Mr. Cedar, she thought she had found the perfect job. She was entranced by the beautiful house, the quiet Dartmoor countryside, the friendliness of the family - and she soon realised that she and Mark, the eldest son, were drawn together in something more than mere friendship. But she sensed that under the surface, something was wrong. Old Mr. Cedar was writing the biography of his son John, killed twenty years before in a climbing accident, and the memory of his dead son obsessed him so much that his other children, shut out of his affections, had grown up resenting their father, and each other. Then, after a foolish misunderstanding, Mark began to suspect that Pauline and Derek, his younger brother, were having an affair - and Derek, for reasons of his own, was content to let him go on believing it. Suddenly Pauline's happiness turned to despair.

Martine Black has been rich all her life, but suddenly, on hter mother's death, she found herself penniless - home, fiancé, independence gone. Before she had a chance to start her new life, two of her oldest friends took her for a holiday in the South of France. On a day trip in the hills behind the Riviera, Martine fell, sprained her ankle, and was taken to the local doctor, and intriguing Englishman, Alexander Whittaker... Her life was about to make another dramatic change!