Title: Melody of love
First published: 1959
Description: Like many another girl, Valerie worshipped a famous and popular singing star-from a distance. Then she met him- met him and, incredibly, became engaged to him, and saw the artificiality beneath his outwardly glamorous way of life. Soon she began to wonder if they could ever be really happy together- and yet she could not stop loving him.

This is the story of Valerie Browne, long time fan of crooner Nicky Barratt. After attending a concert in London, she is shoved around by the crowd of fans and rescued by Nicky's agent. He spots an opportunity to get rid of a troublesome former lover who could damage Nicky's career by engineering an engagement with innocent country girl Valerie.

Valerie doesn't realise it's all a pretence and falls in love with Nicky. The story develops around her growing disillusionment with Nicky's lifestyle and her eventual discovery about how she was tricked.