Best of
Romance

1961

Bel Lamington


D.E. Stevenson - 1961
     Bel Lamington, an orphan daughter of an Army colonel, is brought up in an English village and flung into the whirl of London life to earn a hard living as a secretary while attempting to navigate romance, unexpected friendships and urban life. Shy, sensitive, and innocent, she is unaware of the pitfalls that surround her. But when Bel is offered a chance to leave London and venture to a fishing hotel in Scotland for a much needed holiday with an old school friend, things begin to change. There she learns that you cannot escape from your troubles by running away from them...

No Roses in June


Essie Summers - 1961
    And it seemed the ancient feud between the clans was being revived. Too late then to wish they’d started out differently . . . .

Throw Wide the Door


Emilie Loring - 1961
    Everyone speculated about the mysterious source of the Sewell fortune, intrigued by Steve's claim that life was one big gamble.Her love for Steve would make Elinor a gambler, too- risking everything for the one man she couldn't live without.

My Love, My Enemy


Jan Cox Speas - 1961
    Once in town, she could hardly have stood quietly by while a mob of angry seamen prepared to lynch the handsome young Englishman. It was only natural to intervene, claiming the stranger as an expected guest of her father.Perhaps all still would have been well if, on its return home, the Bradley sloop had not been captured by a British frigate. It was small consolation then for Page to learn that the man she had rescued was not only a nobleman, Lord Hazard, but a possible English spy.In the following months Page more than satisfied her taste for adventure. When she finally found herself trapped aboard a warlike vessel, bound for a distant foreign shore, and in love with one of the enemy, she had ample reason to regret her recklessness. . .