Gates of Dawn

Richard Trenchard was accustomed to having his own way, not least with women. Even his cool, selfish sister had to relinquish her valued secretary when Richard wanted a companion for his young niece. As for the secretary herself, Melanie Brooks, she was offered no choice in the matter. Still, she had little cause for complaint, for Richard's benevolent despotism too her to pleasant places- a charming English country house and then a chalet in the Australian Alps-and, in the end, opened for her a door to a fuller and happier life than she had ever hoped to know.