title: A Small Slice of Summer
author: Neels, Betty
description: Letitia Marsden had decided against romance. Men simply were not to be trusted. Then she met Doctor Jason Mourik van Nie - and quickly changed her mind.
  
  But when he proposed, she rejected him. He had not mentioned love.
  
  "I'm a mouse of a girl", Letitia told him furiously." and you're sorry for me, just like Karel said. I will not be pitied and patronized..."
  
  Yet how could she turn down his offer when to marry him was the dearest wish of her heart?
  
  Hero: Dr./Doctor Jason van Nie
  Heroine: Letitia Marsden