Dr. Leon Daudet is a famous Parisian doctor specializing in the heart. One day he meets a young English girl, Valentine, who is spending only a few months in Paris. The doctor finds his own heart struck by deep feelings for her and wants to make this time count. The problem is, he is not the only one contending for her, and to make matters even more dramatic, Valentine's aunt has left her a hefty inheritance – but only on the condition that she marry within a year. Valentine has no such plans, but the men vying for her love might disagree. The story was written under one of Ida Pollock's pseudonyms, Susan Barrie, in the 20th century and offers a gripping love tale set in romantic Paris. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate. Susan Barrie is a pseudonym of Ida Pollock (1908 – 2013), a highly successful British writer of over 125 romance novels translated into numerous languages and published across the world. Ida Pollock has sold...