Faith Baldwin

After the death of his young wife, Dr. Jonathan Condit returns to the family home in Seascape, where his attractive, unmarried, sister Sophie, helps run his medical practice and both their lives. Dedicated, introspective, and afraid to be vulnerable, Condit is swept up in his patients' personal tragedies. Only beautiful Frances Lawson, a rich and openly seductive divorcee, dares challenge the doctor's defenses and off him a path out of loneliness....

Josephine is the unhappiest person in Miami Beach. It wasn't the fact that she had returned to the estate her family had lost as the tenant's secretary. It wasn't that she disliked her boss's son, the handsome young man who was trying to entertain her. The problem was her employer's worthless stepson, who thought befriending him was part of her job.

Maggie Knox is the new girl in Little Oxford, come from Hawaii to live in the antique-filled New England house her Aunt Hattie has left her. One of the first to befriend her is her lawyer, Matthew Comstock, the most eligible bachelor for miles. But Maggie, against all her best intentions, is attracted to a man already married, Dr. Alan Carstairs, a physician at the hospital where she works. When tragedy strikes Alan and his wife, Lily, Maggie is faced...

Beauty is Letty Lawson's business. When she opens her own salon "Letty Lawson, Inc.," she does so with Mortimer Fisher's money. Both agree that the loan is strictly a business arrangement -- a matter of combining Fisher's funds with Letty's skill and drive -- and venture is brilliantly successful. But soon Letty knows that her friendship with Fisher is drifting into a deeper intimacy, and she will have to make a decision: does she love him, or is...

Valentine Loring was, as her name implied, a most romantic person. She was also completely unpredictable. But Ted Morrison did not know this. nice most of the customers in his bookshop quietly went out of his life after the usual exchange of cash for a volume, he had no idea of the havoc Bal could wreak until he found himself with an unwanted partner -- namely Val, a sensational window display, a stock of books that wounded his sensitive literary...