My Love to Give — Erika Massey

Brought up in the exciting world of the circus, Marcia Shannon had missed the life of other teen-age girls -- the friends, the dates, the parties. For her, freshman year in college had indeed been a great adventure. For once, she did not feel like a person set apart.

Marcia was looking forward to continuing her education when a tragic scandal blasted the future she had planned. Her brother-in-law Johnny, one of the circus performers, was killed by a confederate in the course of a robbery. He left behind him a widow, Marcia's sister Megan, and a daughter, Lissa, still only a toddler.

Megan was distraught -- horrified -- at the thought that her daughter would be forever labeled as the daughter of a criminal. Lovely Megan, the most devoted of her older sisters…Marcia could not refuse her as she exacted a fateful promise -- Marcia was to bring up Lissa as her own. So Marcia moved to Florida with Charles and Ellen Buck, longtime friends who had purchased a hotel there, and undertook the role of a young widow. But fate held a pleasant surprise. Their next-door neighbor was Rand Sorrel, a very attractive, and a wealthy landowner to boot.