Shall Love Be Lost? — Iris Bromige

he lovely house, the beautiful countryside--what a happy contrast to the troubled Cedar family that dwelled there. When Pauline Avon first arrived, as a secretary to old Mr. Cedar, she didn't expect to find such a disparity. But the old man's obsession with the past left little room for his family and they had all turned inwardly destructive. Pauline soon found that Mark Cedar could not return her love, and that his brother Derek, for his own warped reasons was content to let Mark think Pauline was his mistress.

Also published as House of Conflict