Love's Sweet Confusion — Joan Garrison

Political upset. Ann Brady's four year's experience as confidential secretary to the mayor of Clayton City had taught the 23-year-old redhead many things -- above all, how to get ahead regardless of who or what got in her way. The votes had hardly been counted, the mayor had barely conceded defeat to a young reform candidate, before Ann was maneuvering for a new job -- pretending an interest in one her long-time beau, reporter Dick Tompkins, was trying to line up for her on his newspaper to put herself in a better bargaining position for the higher-paying job she really wanted. So when Randolph Sutherland, the new mayor-elect, asked her to stay on at City Hall as his secretary, Ann was stunned. He was violating the rules of the political game as she had learned them. Moreover, he actually meant to keep his campaign promises! But the most bewildering development of all was that Ann found herself perfectly attracted to him.