Man of the Family — Leslie Lance

When her parents parted company, Myra Gresham went to Canada with her father, but her sisters, Averil and Geraldine, with their mother. After her father died, making her his heiress, Myra was eager to go home, but the reunion was a shattering disappointment. She found her mother heavily in debt, and her sisters spoilt, idle and frivolous. Averil derided Myra's Canadian ways and set out to annex Scott Mayhew, who had drawn Myra into a stormy romance. Myra was plunged into a whirl of intrigue and jealousy, pursued by Averil's rejected suitor, Gilbert, and at cross purposes with Scott, gut she was determined to keep her up as man of the family…