Mary Arden

Pampered and popular, Mary Arden had everything: friends, parties, clothes, and a life free from worry or care. Above all, she had the most sought-after man in her circle of friends: the dashing Brooke Haven. Everyone expected Mary and Brooke to announce their engagement soon--and no one was more excited about the match than Mary's own mother.

But Mary, feeling smothered by high society, had decided to take charge of her own future. And so, though she knew she was upsetting her mother's careful plans for her, she ran to Arden, the old-fashioned country town that had been her childhood home, a town that had been named for the generations of Ardens who had lived there.

Would Arden be as she remembered it? Would the people she had known and loved there welcome her back? Could she finally find a place she could call her home? Uncertain, yet with a hopeful heart, Mary went, never dreaming that an old friend had secretly been hoping for her return--or that she was about to turn his world upside down!