The Secret of Thundermyer House — Ruth Burnett

India Stafford had not worked very long for Stafford Realty in Opelona, Georgia. She had accepted no favoritism from her father, and he had given none. She had to prove herself by first educating herself at the university and then starting at the bottom. She had cheerfully agreed, had even accepted the smallest office in the firm. But now, as she entered her dad's big realty office on Mulberry Street in Opelona, her feet were hardly touching the floor. Dad and his associates had already arrived, as she had anticipated, and were having a final discussion concerning the business of the day.

When India announces that she has done the impossible and sold the Thundermyer house, a ramshackle historical curiosity, for a huge sum of money to a doctor in residence in Opelona, her dad and his associates appear thunderstruck. But India handles each question, each doubt, with equanimity and convinces all that she has indeed pulled off the sale without dickering, jobbing, or splitting.

But India's elation is short-lived. The owner, who lives up North, refuses to okay the deal and instead is to arrive in Opelona within a few days. India discovers that someone in her Dad's office has squelched her deal.

Dr. Stewart, whose mother's people came from Scotland and built Thundermyer house in 1780, desperately wants to restore the old place. India's concern for his plans start to go beyond concern for a sale and for a client. But then there's Gordon Hunter, a childhood sweetheart employed at Stafford Realty, who has always taken India for granted, and assumed she would marry him. How India solves her romantic dilemma and makes the sale tests all her ingenuity.