Language of the Heart // The Toy Sword — Elizabeth Cadell

HOLIDAY FOR LOVE

Edmund Forth, a successful architect, was wealthy, handsome, but dull. He had everything, including a cool, titled, fiance, the beautiful and efficient Angela. Then he went on vacation to bright, hot Portugal -- and Francesca Nash suddenly came storming into his life. Fran is a penniless young girl who runs a boarding house in London. She is devoted to her small brother and sister, and her eccentric, talented boarders. Fran teaches Edmund that efficiency is not enough and that people are all that matter. She was lithe, tanned beauty from another world. Edmund defended himself as best he could from her onslaughts. Finally it took a scandal that rocked London for Edmund to realize that the language Fran spoke was the language of the heart.