Betty Neels : Stars Through the Mist / Winter of Change / Three for a Wedding

As she had been secretly in love with Gerard van Doorninck for a long time, Deborah should have been thrilled when he asked her to marry him -- but he had made it perfectly clear that he wanted a wife for practical, not for romantic reasons. Mary Jane might have inherited a house and a comfortable income, but after all, she was twenty-two, a competent staff nurse, and she certainly had no need for a guardian - especially the high-handed Fabian van der Blocq Phoebe Brook hadn't planned to take a nursing job in Holland, still less under false pretenses. But when her sister Sybil decided to get married instead of going to work for Dr. Lucius van Someren, Sybil persuaded Phoebe to take her place. h Lucius's son Paul so hostile, and Paul's governess signaling Lucius was her property, Phoebe really didn't need to compound her problems by falling in love