A wayside tavern

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Sally Wentworth

To get her young brother out of serious trouble Genista needed a lot of money - and the one person who could help her was the enormously wealthy tycoon Marc Kiriakos. He agreed to help - but of course he wanted something in exchange, and what he wanted was Genista for his wife. He explained that it was a matter of convenience: he needed someone who would act as his hostess and also protect him from all the other women who were pursuing him. Genista had taken it for granted that he meant the marriage to be in name only, but it seemed she had been over-optimistic...

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Iris Bromige

Alex Madison at twenty-five knows more about animals and country life than about the world of men, in spite of her striking good looks. When she takes a post as secretary-companion to the elegant journalist Dorinda Raynham, she is quite bowled over by the combined charm of the Raynham family. Only Dorinda's son Nigel seems rude and hostile. But Alex is to discover, rather painfully, that all that glitters is not necessarily gold, and that the handsome and friendly Bruce might be crueller than Nigel.

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Alice Dwyer-Joyce

From the cover: Let us join for a time a company of strolling players, and with them become enchanted with the world of make-believe in the isolated communities of the Highlands of Scotland. To this magical land comes Jonathan Harley, the famous actor, already very nearly spoiled by the applause of adoring audiences. Jonathan had the good fortune to fall into the company [of players who will teach him humility and his place in the world.] The lights dim; the prompter is in his corner and the curtain is about to go up.

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Phyllis A. Whitney

**From the jacket** Lacey Elliot seems to have everything-looks, talent, and a thriving business-but there has always been a great deal missing from her life. For the past thirty years, her mother has staunchly refused to discuss Lacey's absent father or the fact that the two women seem to be totally alone in the world without any relatives. While her mother is recovering from a debilitating illness, a letter arrives from a woman claiming to be Lacey's great-aunt. Driven by a need to discover what her mother has feared all her life, Lacey sets off for the town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a quiet community with a tumultuous past that sits at the confluence of two rivers: the Shenandoah-known as "daughter of the stars" in Indian legend-and the mighty Potomac. Here she hopes to discover who she really is and why her past has been shrouded in mystery for so long. Indeed, the letter sets in motion events that cannot be stopped, for Lacey quickly learns the whereabouts of her mother's family, that her father was killed when she was young, and that her aunt believes his killer has returned to walk among them once more.