Return a Stranger — Mary Frances Doner

Homecoming. . . Gray-eyed Sara Winslow was not a great beauty but she made the most of what she had -- and what she had above all was brains. As a young girl, growing up in Riverbend, Michigan, she had been ambitious, determined to make a success of herself . . .obsessed with it to the point of giving up the young Great Lakes sailor she loved for marriage to an older man who could "do" more for her. Now a young widow, Sara had returned to Riverbend to take care of some business. She hadn't dreamed what it would be like to come home again. Memories haunted her at every turn -- of her family, her school days, her first job, her fateful meeting with wealthy Calvin Cunningham. But the most painful "ghost" of all to face was proud young Bill Mitchell, who had sailed out of Sara's life after she sent him away, never to return.