About This Book
Her feet firmly planted on the ground, her sturdy figure held proudly erect to make up for her lack of height, Elizabeth (Ibbie) Edwards had always found the world an exciting and wonderful place. Then Great-aunt Elizabeth Flory died...and made no mention of her niece in her will.
There was a letter to be opened on Ibbie's twenty-first birthday--but all Ibbie wanted to find in that letter was an explanation of her great-aunt's sudden about-face in regard to her favorite niece.
The oldest of the seven Edwards children, Ibbie had been Aunt Elizabeth's favorite from the beginning. At home in Pinedale, Florida, Ibbie shared her great-aunt's enormous bedroom--and, at sixteen, had become her companion on her annual trips abroad, something that Ibbie thought of as punishment, since it took her away from her delightful family. And now that the dominating old lady was gone, leaving no provision for Ibbie's next three years of college. At the end of her first year, Ibbie was faced with the prospect of getting a job.
When she saw the travel agency ad, she knew it was exactly what she wanted. And whether it was her travel background or whether it was the earnest blue eyes that met his own so directly, Colonel Rainwater of the Rainwater Travel Agency hired Ibbie on the spot.
At first, Ibbie resented the intrusion of Bob Brown, handsome owner of a rival travel agency, who always seemed to be around at her most embarrassing moments. But when she needed a friend, Bob proved that he was a good man to know...
No one would have dreamed that the suave U. J. Lyons, the first person to avail himself of the travel agencies services after Ibbie started to work, would turn out to be an international jewel thief. But when he left his briefcase at the agency and had to awaken Ibbie to open the office, Ibbie found herself in the middle of an explosive situation. Not only were there thirty-four diamonds of appreciable size in the briefcase, but there was another diamond which Lyons didn't realize had fallen from its own special compartment when the others landed on the rug in the travel agency. This particular diamond was the largest Ibbie had ever seen. And Ibbie knew diamonds; hadn't she spent one entire summer is Amsterdam doing research on them?
Doorway to Romance combines the attractions of a job in a travel agency with the thrilling chase of a U. S. Customs man after the leaders of an international jewel ring. Ibbie grows up in the year she works for the Rainwater Travel Agency, and the day of her twenty-first birthday finds her on the threshold of the most glorious adventure of all, with Great-aunt Elizabeth's letter yet to be read. What will the letter hold for Ibbie? Her eyes firmly on the ground, Ibbie goes to the lawyer's office to find out.
There was a letter to be opened on Ibbie's twenty-first birthday--but all Ibbie wanted to find in that letter was an explanation of her great-aunt's sudden about-face in regard to her favorite niece.
The oldest of the seven Edwards children, Ibbie had been Aunt Elizabeth's favorite from the beginning. At home in Pinedale, Florida, Ibbie shared her great-aunt's enormous bedroom--and, at sixteen, had become her companion on her annual trips abroad, something that Ibbie thought of as punishment, since it took her away from her delightful family. And now that the dominating old lady was gone, leaving no provision for Ibbie's next three years of college. At the end of her first year, Ibbie was faced with the prospect of getting a job.
When she saw the travel agency ad, she knew it was exactly what she wanted. And whether it was her travel background or whether it was the earnest blue eyes that met his own so directly, Colonel Rainwater of the Rainwater Travel Agency hired Ibbie on the spot.
At first, Ibbie resented the intrusion of Bob Brown, handsome owner of a rival travel agency, who always seemed to be around at her most embarrassing moments. But when she needed a friend, Bob proved that he was a good man to know...
No one would have dreamed that the suave U. J. Lyons, the first person to avail himself of the travel agencies services after Ibbie started to work, would turn out to be an international jewel thief. But when he left his briefcase at the agency and had to awaken Ibbie to open the office, Ibbie found herself in the middle of an explosive situation. Not only were there thirty-four diamonds of appreciable size in the briefcase, but there was another diamond which Lyons didn't realize had fallen from its own special compartment when the others landed on the rug in the travel agency. This particular diamond was the largest Ibbie had ever seen. And Ibbie knew diamonds; hadn't she spent one entire summer is Amsterdam doing research on them?
Doorway to Romance combines the attractions of a job in a travel agency with the thrilling chase of a U. S. Customs man after the leaders of an international jewel ring. Ibbie grows up in the year she works for the Rainwater Travel Agency, and the day of her twenty-first birthday finds her on the threshold of the most glorious adventure of all, with Great-aunt Elizabeth's letter yet to be read. What will the letter hold for Ibbie? Her eyes firmly on the ground, Ibbie goes to the lawyer's office to find out.