The Velvet Hammer
Subtitle: The enchanting New Novel by one of America's Best Loved Authors
By: by Faith Baldwin [1893-1978]
Edition: First Time In Paperback ed.
Series: Popular Library #445-01368-075 ($0.75)
Publisher: Popular Library; published by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
Copyright date: 1969 by Faith Baldwin Cuthrell
Description: Story of intertwined relationships (past and present). It's the year 1969 & young widow, Meg Brand, must now raise her young son, Andrew, on her own.

Meg Brand, beautiful young war widow, takes on a job at the Brand Hospital--named for her husband's powerful family--to take her mind off herself and her lost husband. There she meets Dr. Charles Scott and the two fall in love. But this is only the beginning of another heartbreaking experience for Meg. For mysterious reasons, Meg's rich and domineering mother-in-law disapproves of the handsome Dr. Scott. A woman who is used to having her own way, she sets out to destroy Meg's new love...