Joy in the Morning — Nancy Kennedy

Would Susan be able to go ahead with her wedding to Lyle, haunted as she was by the memory of her dead sister and the suspicion that had been planted in her mind the night Delie died?

The survivors...

All her life, when she needed comforting, Susan Gilroy had lied to the McGovney sisters. Their big old house was always open to the troubled -- and Susan was troubled. Her beautiful half-sister, Delie, was dead. Killed in an automobile collision. And, because they had quarreled just before Delie drove off, Susan was filled with guilt ... a guilt that had made her postpone her wedding to Dr. Lyle Taylor.

There was also someone else who could not get Delie out of his mind: Chris Evans, a stranger passing through town who had been driving the other car. The investigation showed he wasn't to blame, but Chris kept thinking that there was something odd about the accident ... the way Delie's car had hurtled out of the darkness straight at his, almost as if it were deliberate? He had to know the truth, especially after he met Susan. But would the truth free the girl he'd come to love ... or destroy her?

FRIENDLY EYES...
When Randy heard the news that evening, she was loud with delight. "And a honeymoon in Hawaii!" she cried. "Oh, Sue...you're the lucky one all right."
Susan looked at her friend's radiant face. "Randy, you're wonderful," she said. "I swear you're more excited than I am!"
Sandy laughed, thinking: The thing that bothers me about you, Susan Gilroy, is that you don't look excited at all
But she did not voice the thought...

Hero: Christopher "Chris" Evans
Heroine: Susan Gilroy

Valentine Romance Series #214