A Delicate Matter — Rebecca Forster

HER PAST WAS SHADOWED BY SHAME, HER FUTURE BRIGHT WITH PROMISE!

There was nothing left for her in Sanger, California, but an empty house, painful memories, closed doors. Calla Oaks was alone now, free to go to Los Angeles and follow her dream.

She first met Otis Preston in the Malibu Cafe. He seemed so kind, this older man who rescued her from a drunken assailant, this Hollywood lawyer so eager to take the beautiful young girl under his wing. Soon his real agenda became clear: the sordid proposition, buttressed by blackmail, couched in the swank Beverly Hills Hotel... the nightmare she thought would never end...until Jonathan Drake arrived. The young doctor was handsome, guileless, and all he wanted was Calla: to love, honor and cherish. The future was hers, and she seized it with open arms. Then Otis Preston returned--a threat to her husband, home and family, to her cherished life. This time Calla would win. Because she couldn't afford to lose...