Elizabeth Cadell

High Ambo, in England, is the setting. It is winter, and Caroline West--a very human, placid and unexcitable person, has gone there to escape her late husband's relatives. Like so many good-hearted people, she is immediately put upon. Caroline's sister Iris comes first, full of impulse and determination to be a reporter--an ambition abruptly deflected by a handsome young schoolmaster--an authority on birds. Then comes Robert, with his sweet, ingenuous...

When her brother is left the sole parent of twins, Natalie Travers arrives to help and ends up falling in love with the scion of the town's founding family.

Lydia and Paul, both visiting parents in an English village, become interested in an archeological puzzle -- and in each other.

"Ellen Berg seemed the least likely girl to fall in love with an historic ruin small English village. But that was before she learned of her deceased mother's ancestry and her legacy of a 15th-Century English manor house. The catch is that the manor is lorded over by Ellen's formidable aunt, Lady Laura, the woman who so intimidated her mother. But Ellen is made of sterner stuff and refuses to be run off..." --

A woman with a troubled marriage returns to a childhood home. "When Jeanne had spent her summer holidays there as a child with her schoolfriend, Parson's House, on the cliff top, had been a seaside haven, the small Devon village a sleepy, tranquil place where nothing much ever happened. Now, years later, returning there from Canada, divorced and with twin four year old daughters, she could hardly expect the place or the people to be the same. But...

A young man is determined to marry the girl of his dreams despite family objections.