The Best of Betty Neels

Could she settle for less than love?

Professor Gideon Beaufort tried Deborah's good nature severely. He scorned her future as a trained nanny destined to spend her life caring for other people's children.

Yet was his proposal any more enticing? All he wanted was a substitute nanny for his young daughter and nothing more. "I won't pretend," he told Deborah candidly, "You see, I think I've forgotten how to love."

Deborah found herself wishing the sultry skies of Portugal's exotic Algarve wasn't wasted on such a cynical widower and a dedicated nanny with stars in her eyes.