A Game of Patience — Elisabeth Fairchild

Winning at Love

Patience Ballard has fond memories of her two best childhood friends-fim-Ioving Pip and dear, dependable Richard. But now that she is ready to marry, it is Pip she wants-and she's come to London to find him. ...


Patience is crushed when she learns that Pip is already engaged-and not even Richard's sweet whispers of consolation can soothe her wounded heart. But there's something decidedly odd about Pip's much talked about love affair-for he does not seem the least bit interested in his intended. Patience is puzzled. And when she sees firsthand just how cruel Pip can be, she starts to wonder if Richard - calm, trustworthy, serious Richard-is the man with the key to her heart....