Betty Neels

Staff nurse Samantha Fielding had one golden rule: never get involved....

When Matilda's father retires through ill health, the family's new life in Much Winterlow is forced into reduced circumstances....

Emma Trent had spent most of her life looking after other people, so it was a shock to encounter a man so determined to take care of her. She was hardly in a position to turn down Sir Paul Wyatt’s proposal of marriage, even if it was motivated by convenience on his part....

Harriet had met the man of her dreams, the one she’d always imagined herself marrying. But Dr Friso Eijsinck was very attractive, and he seemed to be surrounded by pretty girls....

When Doctor George Pritchard asked her to marry him, Phoebe hadn’t needed much persuading. After the death of her aunt, she was penniless and without a job....

What a maddening, impossible man Constantijn van Lindemann was!....

Facing bankruptcy, Celine's family were forced to turn their home into a guesthouse to make ends meet. Celine found her new life hard work but great fun....

Titus Taverner was a busy and successful medical man who lacked a wife....

Serena gave up all hope of getting married when her fiancé jilted her....

It deeply irritated Leonora that she was always being caught in awkward situations with the village's new doctor, James Galbraith - especially since she was engaged to Tony....

Sister Maggy MacFergus was tall and she discovered most men found this offputting....

For Olivia Harding, the offer of employment at a small private school came as something of a godsend....

Far from being brokenhearted when her long-standing and rather dull engagement to Tony came to an end, Prudence welcomed it as an opportunity....

When orphan Theodosia’s only remaining family lock her out of their seasonal celebrations, she thinks she’ll be spending Christmas alone in her bedsit - until she meets physician Hugo Bentinck....

Alone in the world, without a job. That was Suzannah Lightfoot’s uneviable position when Guy Bowers-Bentinck rescued her....

A marriage to secure true love. Having fallen in love with Sarah at first sight, Litrik ter Breukel vowed to go slowly because of her youth and innocence. But perhaps he simply needed to propose....

Charity thought she had it all - marriage to respected consultant Tyco van der Brons and being a mother to his two children. So why did her heart yearn for his love, too? Find out....

Everyone in her family agreed that Mary Pagett would one day make a perfect wife. The problem was the only man Mary had even thought about marrying was eminent heart specialist Roel van Rakesma....

Amelia and Tom had been engaged a long time. Too long - and she had begun to worry about why he should be so reluctant to set a date....

Megan thought she had it all - a good job, a caring family and a fiancé whom everyone agreed would make her a wonderful husband. But then her perfectly constructed world fell apart....