Best Selling Books by Faith Baldwin

Divorce threatens the mother of a marriageable daughter in this novel about the marital problems of three generations.

An uncomplicated romance between a recently divorced artist and a young architect, set in the Connecticut town of Little Oxford.

Lynn is an ambitious young woman who loves her job in the gleaming new Manhattan skyscraper. Soon, Lynn also loves Tom, the young clerk down the hall. They are so in love that if they don’t get married, something improper is bound to happen. But her company has a strict new policy: Any woman who marries will be immediately fired. First published in 1931—the same year the Empire State Building opened its doors—Skyscraper marks the advent of a new kind of romance plot, and Lynn a new kind of heroine. Lynn is facing choices that will determine the course of the rest of her life, but rather than just choose between suitors, Lynn and other working girls like her must decide whether to abandon their careers—or abandon their men. They can’t have both—or can they? Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women''s Barracks.

Here is a classic romance on skis amid the snow and mountains and the brilliant frosty nights of Sun Valley, where people are drawn into close -- and dangerous -- relationships. There were Garda Allen, surrounded by bodyguards, with no vanity but plenty of pride; Larry Martin, who had the modern Midas touch; Ellen Mitchell, who was real, and delightfully unsophisticated; and Franz, who could do many things but chose to do none of them. The heiress, the self-made man, the secretary, and the European nobleman come to know each other, and out of that acquaintance rises a conflict which reaches its climax in a blizzard far from the luxury of Sun Valley.

At twenty-three years old, Kathleen finds herself engaged to the man she loves and happier than any girl alive until she overhears a phone conversation that shatters her future.

Engaged to one man, a young woman finds herself drawn to another who happens to be involved with her mother. Though her mother didn''t really love him, her pride would never allow her to lose a man to another woman without a battle--even her daughter.

Lina wouldn''t accept the theory of male superiority, and she would not give up her job to marry. Her new husband soon found that marrying her was like marrying a corporation, as she brought the office home with her, and her friends were office friends.

With titles from every poular subgenre of Romance, in styles from chaste to explicit, this series offers selections for romance readers of many tastes. Includes releases from top-selling contemporary authors. She would never really honor or obey the man she married . . . he was not the man she loved. Brad Spencer had said "Marry me, and you''ll have everything you''ve ever wanted or ever will want". Beautiful, copper-haired Gail Rogers listened to a little voice inside her -- you''re never safe if you love someone -- and settled down with wealthy Brad Spencer in a marriage that was strictly for money. But Brad didn''t know how much Gail wanted Sam Meredith. Brad was a good husband, understanding, tender, but could he ever give Gail the one thing in life she really wanted?

As secretary to Bobbie Robbins, Josephine was living in Miami Beach at Blue Horizons, the lavish estate her family had lost years before. She didn''t have much use for Bobbie''s stepson, Lanny, who seemed to think that part of Jo''s job was to entertain him. But even worse - she was in love with Bobbie''s son Jon who was engaged to be married to Elsie Meredith. So when Jo learns about a shameful secret in Elsie''s past, she''s in a quandary. Does she tell Jon? Or does she keep her silence and risk losing him?

David Alcott, a junior partner at his law firm, has complete control over heiress Letty McDonald''s money. She is getting control over his heart.

Actress Cherry Chester is really heiress Sarah Brown. She meets the famous explorer Anthony Amberton, not knowing that he has another identity, too.

Linda Wheaton can''t seem to leave her bad penny ex-fiancé behind her. After leaving her for her friend, she next catches him flirting with a woman who''s engaged to marry the son of a family friend.

Maggie Knox is the new girl in Little Oxford, come from Hawaii to live in the antique-filled New England house her Aunt Hattie has left her. One of the first to befriend her is her lawyer, Matthew Comstock, the most eligible bachelor for miles. But Maggie, against all her best intentions, is attracted to a man already married, Dr. Alan Carstairs, a physician at the hospital where she works. When tragedy strikes Alan and his wife, Lily, Maggie is faced with the most difficult and tempting situation of her life. In resolving her dilemma, Maggie will earn her own place in Little Oxford. --Book jacket.

Davy and Meg have been married fourteen years when Davy commits a brief and meaningless indiscretion while on a business trip. Davy has never seen the woman before and doesn''t expect that he''ll ever see her again. It is an incident that occurs without importance to Davy. Yet the consequences of those few thoughtless moments soon swell to towering proportions that threaten to bring Davy and Meg''s world crashing down upon them...

For their fourteenth anniversary, Gaylord Meredith gives his wife an interior decorating shop. The shop quickly becomes trouble.

Through the calendar year with Faith Baldwin as she links her thoughts on country living, prayer, and the acceptance of tragedy with the cycle of the seasons.

Judith Gillmore, hostess of the exclusive Rivermont Hotel, knows everything that goes on. Yes, she knows about all the love affairs, but there is none so complicated as her own secret love for a man who won''t bother to return it.

Sherry and Jimmy''s honeymoon had been wonderful. But as soon as they returned, people began breaking into their charmed circle and sharp rumours began to tear at the fabric of their love.

"Judith, at 23, had already broken two engagements to attractive, suitable men. Then she fell deeply in love with Matthew Norman-Matthew with the dark face, the clear gray eyes, the pleasure-loving mouth. But Matthew was the wrong person in every respect. For one thing, she didn''t really like him. She''d known him since they were children, and she thought him selfish and spoiled. For another thing, he was married. And his adoring wife was pregnant with their first child. The only honorable solution was to run away to some other city where she needn''t ever see him again. Neither he nor his wife must ever know how she felt. But how far and how long could she run? And what would happen when she had to stop running?--BOOK COVER.

When Travers Lorrimer, a veteran severely traumatized by the war, mistakes Mary Lou Thurston for his former fiance, Lorrimer''s mother asks Mary Lou to continue with the deception.

A youthful war widow encounters strong opposition from her dead husband''s mother when she falls in love again.

1929. Faith Baldwin was one of the most popular and prolific mid-twentieth century authors of romance fiction. She published eighty-five books, many of them focused on women juggling family and career. Mrs. Murdock knew, when Anne came in to kiss her goodnight, that her daughter had again refused to marry Ted O''Hara. What'' the world coming to, she thought, when healthy, pretty girls prefer typewriters to babies? Well, maybe it''s just that the right man hasn''t come along yet. The problem wasn''t nearly as simple as that. Anne Murdock was young and pretty and desirable, but above all she was ambitious. She wasn''t too impressed with marriage, as she had observed it in her own family and among her friends. She wanted to climb to the top in business, to have her own life, her own position, her own income. If any man were to matter to her, it would probably be one who had already made his way to the top. Some man like her employer, Mr. Fellowes, head of the Fellowes Advertising Agency. And such men already had wives. Almost inescapably, Larry Fellowes came to matter to Anne, not only as an employer in business but as a vigorous, handsome, attractive man. And pretty, ardent, young Anne Murdock came to matter very much to him. It was, to them, an intense personal problem. But it represents more than that. It is the problem of the human equation in modern business, a new and different problem now that the business world is open to you and intelligent women who want more from life than just a job or just a home and husband.