Betty Neels

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....

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

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

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....

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

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....

Georgina Rodman had been given a special nursing assignement; she was to look after the Van den Berg Eyffert children who were recovering from an accident....

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....

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....

Esmeralda Jones was a very nice girl. It seemed to Esmeralda that she was also invisible to the opposite sex....

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....

Tiny Paul van Eysink was a very special case to Nurse Hannah Lang, and she had become very fond of his young parents....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

Victoria was a very pretty girl, but with three sisters even prettier than she, Victoria had developed a bit of a complex about her looks. So when attractive Alexander van Schuylen made it clear he liked her, she really didn’t expect much more from him....