Betty Neels

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....

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....

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....

Rebecca Saunders isn't Baron Tiele Raukema van den Eck's type - she's already heard him describe her as a thin mouse. But he's been very kind, rescuing her from an intolerable home life....

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....

How could she fall asleep during his lecture? It wasn't the best way for Nurse Lucy Prendergast to attract the attention of distinguished consultant Fraam der Linssen....

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....

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

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....

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!....

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....

Dictatorial, overbearing and downright rude! Dr Valentine Seymour might be an excellent paediatrician, but however good he was with his small patients he needed to develop more of a bedside manner with adults....

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....

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

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

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

Sarah Dunn had worked with Hugo van Elven for a long time, and she was astounded when he suddenly proposed to her....

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

When Rauwerd van Kempler proposed to Tilly, he made it clear their marriage would be a convenient arrangement. But suddenly Tilly wasn’t so sure that was all she wanted from him....