title: Her Searching Heart
author: Mallett, Phyllis
description: A proposal of marriage from Robert, whom she does not love, brings Valerie face to face with a frightening question - is she incapable of falling in love? She rejects Robert and flees to the tranquillity of Cornwall, hoping to find the answer; but when she meets Bruce and his motherless young daughter Mandy, she discovers new and disturbing emotions deep in her heart - and finds the answer to her question...