Jane Arleth’s mountain vacation is cut short when she receives news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave a rare chance to relax for the hard times ahead, Jane returns to the city. She soon discovers that there’s only one cure for her ailing parents: some much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best. What she finds is a summer that opens her heart to love.
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“. . .this abrupt flight seemed foolish, childish, crazy.
Why had she done it?”
Jane Arleth’s mountain vacation is cut short when she receives news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave behind a rare chance to relax, Jane returns to the city and hard times. Once home, Jane discovers that the only cure for her ailing parents is a much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching summer city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best.
But her summer, while healing her parents, also changes Jane’s own life forever. Charming, wealthy, Lew Lauderdale, a young man Jane met at the mountain resort, follows Jane to the beach and insists on seeing her in the city. . .without her family. Meanwhile, fellow officer worker John Sherwood, who is struggling to scrimp a living on his own meager salary, is eager to help Jane.
Caught between two admirers, Jane’s not sure which way will lead to happiness.
Jane Arleth’s mountain vacation is cut short when she receives news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave behind a rare chance to relax, Jane returns to the city and hard times. Once home, Jane discovers that the only cure for her ailing parents is a much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching summer city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best.
But her summer, while healing her parents, also changes Jane’s own life forever. Charming, wealthy, Lew Lauderdale, a young man Jane met at the mountain resort, follows Jane to the beach and insists on seeing her in the city. . .without her family. Meanwhile, fellow officer worker John Sherwood, who is struggling to scrimp a living on his own meager salary, is eager to help Jane.
Caught between two admirers, Jane’s not sure which way will lead to happiness.