Unofficial Engagement

Can Art and Ideals Destroy Love?

Eileen Macauley had what most girls dream of—a handsome, wealthy manufacturer, Dan Hyland, in love with her and a job at the Duffie Memorial Foundation of Fine Arts. Her job brought her into daily contact with the country's most talented rising young painters, sculptors, dancers, and writers. Then Eileen's well-ordered world was suddenly disrupted with the arrival at the Foundation of Bruno Liebermann for a year's resident fellowship. Bruno—the dark, hulking, hard-bitten artist whose personality and paintings both repelled and attracted Eileen.

Eileen had always wanted a man who was capable of making his own decisions and living his own life. Was that man Bruno or Dan?

Original Title: Prelude to Glory